In 1925, what would become Delta Air Lines started as the world's first aerial crop-dusting operation in the Mississippi ...

A few months later, the company’s headquarters moved to Monroe, Louisiana, and for the first few years, crop dusting was the company’s primary focus. A group of investors acquired Huff ...

dispensing the first aerial application of pesticides. Little did they know that maiden flight would change how ag pilots treated crops and reshape the relevance of crop dusting. With staggering ...

In addition to crop dusting, Transland promoted the AG-2 as a potential firefighting plane. Fighting wildfires using air drops from planes had first been used in 1955. These improvements and ...

Crop dusters have helped control weeds and insects ... Times have changed so much, the Iowa Ag Aviation Association held its first-ever Ag Aviation Summit in Ankeny earlier this year.

An Air National Guard base in Oklahoma will host the first formal training unit for the service's armed recon crop duster plane used for special operations, an announcement that comes as watchdogs ...