A spray business’ rig became so popular that the company began selling it commercially. The GUSS automated orchard sprayer isn’t the brainchild of your typical ag-tech startup. While many new companies in the rapidly growing technology space are Silicon Valley professionals or university graduate students who’ve come up with an idea to help agriculture, this machine’s history is different. GUSS – which stands for Global Unmanned Spray System – was created by the Kingsburg, Calif.-based Crinklaw Farm Services, which had been providing agricultural spray services to West Coast growers for more than 30 years before the machine was ready for work in 2017.