Tag: Aerial application

This week on OFR the show talks with Ric Richter of Richter Aviation, Maxwell, California. Crop-duster, aerial applicator, air ag. It's all cool. Rick gives  the ins and outs of ...

Farming and flying are a way of life for Ryan Dietrich. As the pilot for SkyTractors, Dietrich combines those two things by flying the company’s Ag Cat spray plane. SkyTractors ...

For the better part of the last 25 years I have been working with foresters and others for whom the land is sacred, providing the best care possible to protect ...

The FAA’s 43rd annual General Aviation and Part 135 Activity Survey (GA Survey) is now underway, reporting on calendar year 2020 aviation activity. The GA Survey is the only source ...

Senate President Troy Jackson, D-Allagash, a logger and the bill's sponsor, said aerial application of glyphosate and other herbicides has caused irreversible environmental damage. AUGUSTA — The Maine Legislature is ...

Red Beierle descends below the expansive Columbia Basin horizon to the tips of the apple trees, depositing a stream of stop-drop behind him. His Air Tractor 802 all but disappears ...

Disappointed Tiny residents will try to make the best of the situation when it comes to handling next year's gypsy moth infestation. Those were the sentiments of Lynne Archibald, secretary ...

For Jake and Sandy Hoffner, there’s no place like home — even if it’s a relatively new home. Originally farmers, and raised in rural North Dakota, they left during a ...

WAGONHAMMER AERIAL APPLICATION PROJECT COMPLETE The Wagonhammer Aerial Herbicide Application project concluded on Friday, October 30th after treating 2,060 acres for cheatgrass and spotted knapweed over the course of three days.  ...

It may seem like a profession from another era, but crop dusting remains an important job in 2020. “The newer pilots, well they call themselves agricultural aerial applicators and most ...