BISMARCK, N.D. — Aerial applicators in North Dakota treated 5.5 million acres in 2024 — setting a new record while recording no fatal incidents in the year among pilots. "It's really astounding when ...

Aerial Applications is using more than 20 drones to soar over parts of North Carolina affected by Hurricane Florence, in an effort to gain images to aid in recovery missions. The team is set up and ...

Though the aerial application industry is being described as maturing, it offers farmers another tool in their tool box when it comes to precision agriculture. Aerial application can help farmers save ...

Many aerial application service customers do not realize the significant impact they can have on the safety of ag pilots who treat their fields. Before a farmer or landowner considers leasing land for ...

Washington, D.C.-based Aerial Applications has closed a $4.5 million equity funding round with participation from angel investors, Austin-based Capital Factory and personal investors. This is the ...

A few months ago now, I talked with a representative from the National Agricultural Aviation Association, which bills itself as the “voice of the aerial application industry” – or the use of aircraft ...

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 ...