Aerial Applicator Suit Demonstrates Scope of Risks The recent U.S. Fourth Circuit case of Kritter v. Mooring involving the crash of a helicopter aerial applicator shows how risks can be distributed among farm owners, renters, crop consultants, and others, and provides a guide for how to allocate those risks in custom application contracts. A landowner leased his farm to his relatives’ farming corporation. The farm corporation engaged Nutrien for various consulting services, including aerial pesticide applications. Nutrien employed a crop consultant to work with the farm corporation, and when needed, to hire aerial applicators. In 2020, the crop consultant hired Eugene Kritter, an experienced aerial applicator, to spray some of the corporation’s
