The R550 Sprayhawk can carry up to 110 gal. of payload and cover more than 200 acres per hour. Credit: Rotor Technologies Brazilian civil aviation regulator ANAC has approved the use of uncrewed ...
PAGE, N.D. -- It's early afternoon on a picture-postcard day in late May, a rarity in a wet, drizzly spring. Tim "Toby" McPherson is anxious to climb into his spray plane and take advantage of the ...
SHEFFIELD, Ill. — A Bureau County agriculture business is taking precision agriculture to the skies. Two years ago, Gripp Custom Farming Corp. started exploring using drones as a large-scale method ...
HOCKLEY COUNTY, Texas (KCBD) - Aerial application is an integral part of agriculture across the South Plains. Many farmers make a living flying over fields. “I love my job, it’s a lot of fun. Anybody ...
Summer skies fill with planes and helicopters in rural Illinois every summer as corn and soybean fields need crop protection. However, the risk to aerial applicators was magnified last month with four ...
Crop dusters keep Iowa's farm fields and the economy healthy. The saying "pennies from heaven" certainly doesn't refer to aerial spraying. Ag aviation contributes $214 million to the state's economy ...