A Farmer Explains the Benefit of Crop Dusting Over a Sprayer

About this episode

Robert Houston discusses the advantages of crop dusting compared to ground spraying in agriculture.

He’s a farmer first and a crop duster second, and that changes everything about how he flies. We’re joined by Robert Houston, a fifth-generation producer who farms for a living and does aerial application because he loves the work and the relationships. If you’ve ever wondered what crop dusting actually does for corn, soybeans and canola, why some growers choose a plane over a ground sprayer, or how an ag pilot thinks about risk, this conversation gets specific fast. We talk timeliness, crop...

People in this episode

Guest: Robert Houston

Topics covered

• crop dusting
• agriculture
• aerial application
• risk management
• farming practices

Keywords

• crop dusting
• aerial application
• farming
• risk
• agriculture

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: River Valley AgCredit, ACA

Products: crop dusting, sprayer, corn, soybeans, canola

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