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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. May 17—GRAND FORKS — Eight months after 33-year-old Tylor Lee Johnson died in a Grand Forks County agricultural aircraft crash, ...

GRAND FORKS COUNTY, N.D. — The fatal agricultural aircraft crash in northern Grand Forks County on Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 12, is the ninth crop-dusting fatality in the United States this year. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unmanned aircraft developer Rotor Technologies is working through regulatory approval of a remotely piloted helicopter based on Robinson Helicopter’s R44, with hopes of tapping into the aerial ...

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 ...