Since 1988, Jonair has delivered advanced aerial application services to satisfied growers across Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
Benefits of Aerial Application
Because many products are only useful at specific pest and crop growth stages, Jonair applies crop protection products in a timely and efficient manner.
Our fleet of Air Tractors services large areas quickly, treating crops faster — which is critical for disease and pest control — and spraying more acres per day than ground machines.
Aerial application pays for itself and puts more money in a grower's pocket.Our sophisticated Fleet
2 Air Tractor AT-502 B Aircraft
At 500-gallon capacity, this fast and efficient aircraft boasts state of the art Satloc GPS and advanced nozzle technology that helps ensure the practical application of product on crops and pests. This implementation allows for field navigation accuracy to less than a foot and application rate accuracy to 0.1 gallons per acre.
3 Air Tractor AT-502XP Aircraft
The Air Tractor 502XP has the Xtra Power to haul a full load even on the hottest days. It has a 500-gallon capacity and provides speed and high productivity.
2 Air Tractor AT-802A Aircraft
The AT-802A has a 800-gallon capacity and is the largest single-engine ag aircraft. It can complete more jobs in a single load and has the capacity to do the work of several smaller planes.
Guaranteed No Tracks
One of the most apparent advantages of aerial application is zero soil compaction.
Ground equipment driven through fields leaves wheel tracks and compacts soil particles. This invasive activity reduces pore space and restricts oxygen and water movement into and through the soil and root zone. Compaction can be particularly harmful on wet ground, sometimes making the soil hard and reducing yields.
Wet soils will never stop aerial applicators from spraying. Moving ground equipment through a field also inevitably damages the crop — sometimes up to five percent of the plants. That damage can reduce crop yield much more than the cost of an aerial application.
Aerial applications also reduce the risk of diseases like club root from spreading field to field.
Forestry
In addition to agricultural aerial applications, Jonair also protects forests and controls health-threatening pests.
Outbreaks of eastern spruce budworm occur regularly in the boreal, Great Lakes and Acadian forest regions of Eastern Canada. Jonair is part of a group of over 30 aircraft from Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta that head to Quebec at the end of May to participate in a spray program to control the spruce budworm — a moth whose caterpillar feeds on trees.
The Budworm Program aims to maintain tree survival, preserve the annual allowable cut, and in some instances protect wildlife habitat and recreation value. Biological control using Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) has made this program highly successful in reducing the budworm populations.
Jonair is dedicated to keeping our Canadian forests green and healthy.
