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  • noun Plural form of cropduster.

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Examples

  • Likewise, NAFTA has made life tougher for peasant farmers as subsisized Louisiana farmers with high tech 4WD tractors and turbine cropdusters can produce commodity grains loaded with ag chemicals cheaper than the peasants could grow their all-organic hand chopped grains.

    Borjas: What's His Problem?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • California-based cropdusters, with traditional skills in pesticide-spray and not geopolitics, available for the gig?

    Paulina Borsook: Bush Administration to Blue-State California: Drop Dead! 2008

  • And I thought we were the only ones who flew that low (other than cropdusters).

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2008

  • Don't people realize how much it hurts agribusiness CEO's when they have to spend money to get the farmworkers out of the fields before the cropdusters drop their pesticides?

    Archive 2005-01-09 2005

  • Don't people realize how much it hurts agribusiness CEO's when they have to spend money to get the farmworkers out of the fields before the cropdusters drop their pesticides?

    01/09/2005 - 01/16/2005 2005

  • Don't people realize how much it hurts agribusiness CEO's when they have to spend money to get the farmworkers out of the fields before the cropdusters drop their pesticides?

    On Red Cross rogering and righteous exploitation 2005

  • Then with cropdusters grounded amid fears of terrorism, from Minneapolis, bioterrorism expert, Dr. Michael Osterholm.

    CNN Transcript Sep 25, 2001 2001

  • The ATF war on marijuana and poppy plants through fires and insecticdes from ecoterrorist cropdusters ... poisons and burns animals, birds, reptiles, insects, fishes.

    Indybay newswire 2009

  • But still the need for cropdusters exists and the looming shortage is troublesome.

    Bakersfield.com Latest news 2009

  • Skimming the tops of plants while dodging power lines, skillful cropdusters plant fields, fertilize crops and drop mixtures from the air that help fight the "bad bugs."

    Bakersfield.com Latest news 2009

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