Aerial application of pesticides, or crop dusting, is a crucial part of modern agriculture, increasing crop yields and reducing losses by billions of dollars annually. The job of an ag pilot is ...

BEAMAN, Iowa -- 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 ...

A crop duster landed upside down in a cane field south of Lockport. According to Lockport Volunteer Fire Department’s Fire Chief Armand Autin, a crop duster spraying insecticides on cane fields “soft ...

EGELAND, N.D. -- A crop duster plane crashed while spraying a field east of Egeland but the pilot was unhurt. The Towner County Sheriff's Office says Nathan Murdoch of Nehawka, Neb., was making a pass ...

CHARLESTON, Mo. -- Stephen Austin's job has been up and down since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. On Monday it was down. He and other Bootheel crop-dusters, along with their counterparts nationwide, ...

WORTHINGTON, Minn. -- It's been a busy couple of weeks for Jim Arnt. Arnt is one of several crop dusters working overtime spraying insecticides to kill the dreaded, profit-sucking soybean aphid that ...

WORTHINGTON (AP) -- It's been a busy couple of weeks for Jim Arnt. Arnt is one of several crop dusters working overtime spraying insecticides to kill the dreaded, profit-sucking soybean aphid that is ...

Guardian’s SC1 aerial-application eVTOL can cover 40 acres/hr. Credit: Guardian Massachusetts-based startup Guardian, which is developing an unmanned electric-vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) crop ...

DILWORTH, Minn. — If you love your job, why retire ? One day spent with crop duster pilot Gary Jerger of rural Clay County, you quickly find out there is a reason he's been flying the "600-horse ...

Neighbors living near Blue Diamond Road are demanding answers after seeing what looked like a crop duster flying extremely ...

North Carolina's pesticide administrators says relaxed crop dusting rules around homes, schools, hospitals, nursing homes and churches will not compromise public health. Proposed revisions being ...