From crop dusters to drones, farmers embrace technology

  • MNJ photo/Sarah Quintas. Local farmers gather around a state-of-the-art agricultural drone.
On Aug. 3, 1921, Army Air Corps pilot Lieutenant John A. Macready, piloting a specially modified Curtiss JN4 Jenny, spread lead arsenate over a six-acre grove of 6,000 catalpa trees at Postmaster…

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