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Membership

Membership

Membership is open to aerial application businesses, the pilots who fly for them, and the companies that serve the industry.

What dues pay for

What membership supports

The association’s main work is policy advocacy and defending aerial application as development presses in on Idaho’s farmland. Dues pay for that work.

Policy advocacy

Dues fund the association’s representation at the Idaho Legislature and before the Idaho State Department of Agriculture and the Federal Aviation Administration. That means following every bill and proposed rule that touches aerial application, bringing pilots to the Capitol to testify, and writing legislation when the law needs to change. Since 2020 that work has produced three laws: sales tax parity for agricultural aircraft, Right to Farm protection for flights to and from fields, and a penalty for knowingly false damage claims.

Defending the industry from development and encroachment

Idaho is growing, and new houses now sit beside fields that still have to be treated. Conflicts and complaints have grown with them. Dues pay for the association to defend its members’ room to work: protecting flights to and from fields under the Right to Farm Act, answering rules that would limit aerial application near development, and making sure a complaint meant only to stop the work carries a consequence.

The public story

Most Idahoans have never had aerial application explained to them. Dues pay for telling that story to the public, to reporters and to the people who write the rules, so that decisions about farmland are made by people who understand what the aircraft overhead is doing and why.

Training

Members meet each year to go over what has changed in law and regulation. When the association holds a spray pattern clinic, an analyst tests each aircraft and the pilot corrects the setup.

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