Friday, July 03, 2020

Ever heard of rice planting by airplanes?


 Aircraft preparing to takeoff loaded with pre-sprouted seed rice at Kole Farms Air Strip--1964 

Planting, spraying and fertilizing rice was mostly accomplished by aircraft. This photo shows two separate farming operations loading rice into M and M Air Service aircraft


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  1. My late friend Gordon Baxster ("Bax Seat") used to fly M&M's Stearmans when they'd let him.

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