Crop dusters — or aerial applicators, which is their official name — also say they need thick skin to cope with what they call misinformation against their businesses. Environmentalists peg them as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aerial view of the July 22, 2024, crop duster accident site facing west with the field being sprayed in the background. The ...

LA PORTE COUNTY, Ind. (WSBT) — WSBT 22 has received video of what was almost a major accident between a crop-duster and a semi on U.S. 30. It happened near Hanna, in La Porte County, and was caught on ...

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 --- The risks are great. The job is seasonal, with this year's work basically finished.

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 ...

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, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CEDAR VALLEY, Okla. (KFOR) — Drone ...

If Hollywood decides to remake Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller “North by Northwest”, the classic attack from the sky may not come from a buzzing crop duster airplane. The new tech for dusting corn fields ...

Top Gun undoubtedly had some of the best air-to-air combat scenes ever put on film, but watching crop duster pilot Butch Fisher skim this field and then barely pull up in time to miss a towering tree ...