Lately, Gene's crop dusting business is not doing as well as it normally does.
Martin says, "The dry weather is not good, the farmer decides that without rain or if he doesn't have an irrigator he probably won't spend much money doing what I am doing here."
Because of the late spring many farmers were late planting their corn crops. That delay, has caused business to slow down for Gene Martin.
The few crops that have grown and are ready to be sprayed, will benefit greatly from the pesticides that Gene will spray.
Martin says, "It used to be that if you got 100 bushels to the acre than you had quite a crop, but now they're getting 200 or more bushels because of the chemicals and the way we do it so it's way to their advantage to take care of it."
Despite the shortage of crops right now, Gene has a positive outlook on the business of crop dusting. He says, there's always something to spray.
Martin added, "Aphids is the next thing, we've got a few of those around, and those will be the next thing we spray, and we will get really busy with that."
The last round of crop dusting is herbicides. Gene says he will spray all the way into the middle of November.
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