Every year, Sheriff's Departments from across the state partner with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation to fly over all of Ohio's eight counties.  But they're looking for much more than just how the corn is coming along.

"They have a trained spotter that's in the helicopter with the pilot, and the spotter tries to identify marijuana plants growing in open fields."

The Trumbull Ashtabula Group Task Force has been flying the friendly skies this week, and already came across quite a large cash crop.

"Two days ago, we eradicated twelve hundred plants in Ashtabula County", says the Project Commander of the TAG Law Enforcement Task Force.

Some strong winds and scattered raindrops cut today's flight short, but not before officers did find some plants in a nearby field.

"We just found one field that was in, I believe Hartford Township, and we got the eighteen plants out of that field."

No matter how many plants are pulled, agents say it's sometimes hard to press charges when you don't know who planted the drugs, or intended to harvest them.

"And if we can't make any determination who the actual grower is, then we'll take the plants and we'll apply for a destruction order with the Common Pleas Court, and burn the plants."

That's exactly where this pot is headed.  Officers say the most important thing is these drugs are out of the fields, and won't ever make it to the streets.

"We only have limited flight time, and so we want to get in, get the plants, get out, and get to the next field to pull more plants", says the Project Commander.