Questions & answers.

Call the office at (509) 553-6739 and Linda will get you on the schedule. Tell us the field, the crop, the chemical, and the window you need it flown in. In the busy stretch around flag-leaf and heading we book tight, so the earlier you call the better we can fit you in.

We fly small fields and big ones. There is a ferry cost baked into every job, so a tiny patch a long way out costs more per acre than a full section close to the strip. If you have a small block, mention it when you call and we will tell you honestly whether it pencils out or whether it makes sense to wait and group it with nearby work.

Most of our work is flown off GPS, so the swaths line up without a human flagger standing in the crop. If GPS coverage is thin or you want a specific boundary held, we can arrange flagging. Either way, tell us any corners, power lines, or wet spots you want us to know about before we launch.

We need the legal location of the field, the acres, the crop and its stage, the product and rate you want applied, and your carrier volume if you have a preference. Note any sensitive neighbors, organic ground, beehives, or waterways nearby. If we are supplying chemical, we will confirm the exact tank mix with you before it goes in the hopper.

It depends on what we are chasing. Burndown and early weed control go on before or right after seeding, fungicide on cereals usually goes on around flag-leaf to heading, and insecticide goes on when the count says it is time. Watch your crop and your scout reports, call us when you are getting close, and we will slot you into the next good weather window.

We fly in light, steady wind and hold off when it picks up or swings toward a sensitive neighbor. We do not spray in a temperature inversion, because the fine droplets hang and move where you do not want them. On the Palouse that often means early mornings and evenings are our best windows, so patience on a breezy afternoon usually pays off.

Drift management starts with the wind direction and speed, the droplet size, and how low and slow we run the boom. We leave buffers on downwind edges near sensitive crops, organic ground, gardens, water, and homesteads. Tell us where those neighbors sit and what they grow, and we will plan the flight lines and the day around protecting them.

We can do it either way. Many growers hand us the product and the recommendation and we mix and load it, and we keep clean water at the strip for the carrier. If you want to supply your own chemical, that is fine too, just get it to us with the label and the rate so we mix it right.

We fly the Palouse rotation: wheat, barley, peas, lentils, garbanzos, and canola. That covers fungicide, insecticide, herbicide, and liquid or dry fertilizer across those crops. If you are running something less common, call and tell us the label and we will let you know whether we can put it on for you.

Yes. We do aerial seeding for cover crops and for ground you cannot get a drill across, like steep Palouse hillsides, wet bottoms, or standing stubble. We also spread dry fertilizer through the same setup. Tell us the seed, the rate, and the acres and we will handle the rest.

We fly in daylight. Ag flying down low over wires and hills is demanding enough with good visibility, so we work the daylight windows and lean on early mornings and evenings when the wind lays down and the inversion has lifted. That timing usually lines up with the calmest air anyway, which is better for your application.

We price by the acre, and the rate depends on the acres, how far the field sits from the strip for ferry time, the product and how many gallons of carrier we are flying per acre, and whether we are supplying chemical and water. Small, scattered, far-out fields cost more per acre than large blocks close in. Call the office with your field details and we will give you a straight number before we fly.

Yes. We are an FAA Part 137 agricultural aircraft operator and carry a Washington State pesticide applicator license, and we are fully insured. We have been flying the Palouse since 1994. If your lender or landlord needs proof, tell us and we will get it to you.

Yes. We keep application records on every job, including the field, the date and time, the product and rate, and the wind and weather at the time we flew. You get that documentation for your own files and for anything your buyer, insurer, or the state asks for. Just tell Linda where to send it.