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Crop dusting poisons enjoyed a boom in the US and Europe after World War II until the environmental impact of widespread use was recognised following the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1963. Crop dusting was not adopted in New Zealand until after top dressing was well established.
The first commercial cropdusting operations began in 1924 in Macon, Georgia [6] by Huff-Daland Crop Dusting, which was co-founded by McCook Field test pilot Lt. Harold R. Harris. [4] Use of insecticide and fungicide for crop dusting slowly spread in the Americas and, to a lesser extent, other nations in the 1930s. The name 'crop dusting ...
Dust Up was a Canadian reality television series produced by Paperny Entertainment and Prairie Threat Entertainment that aired in 2011 on History Television.The series follows three crop dusters in Nipawin, Saskatchewan (73-year-old Bud Jardine, his son Brennan Jardine, and rookie pilot Travis Karle [1]) as they compete for work and mount sometimes-perilous crop dusting expeditions.
An agricultural aircraft is an aircraft that has been built or converted for agricultural use – usually aerial application of pesticides (crop dusting) or fertilizer (aerial topdressing); in these roles, they are referred to as "crop dusters" or "top dressers".
It had an aft cabin that could seat two passengers, a hopper over the centre of the wing which could hold 750 kg of superphosphate in the topdressing role, or 654 litres of spray as a crop duster. The pilot sat forward of the hopper over the wing leading edge, a position which gave a good field of view compared with the American practice of ...
This early crop dusting led to aerial seeding. Aerial reforestation, a type of aerial seeding, specifically to repopulate forest land after some type of disaster was being used as early as the 1930s. Planes were used to seed mountain areas in Honolulu that were inaccessible to traditional methods after forest fires. [ 6 ]
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A recent study testing the effects of Bt corn pollen dusting nearby milkweed plants on larval feeding of the monarch butterfly found that the threat to populations of the monarch was low. [12] The use of GMO crop plants engineered for herbicide resistance can also indirectly increase the amount of agricultural pollution associated with ...