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April 6, 2017
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Flying drones could save the Nova Scotia wild blueberry industry millions of dollars in the next few years, according to one group.
The airborne drones can spot troubled areas of a massive blueberry patch in a fraction of the time it takes a farmer on foot to find them. That saves farmers time and money, said Peter Rideout, executive director of the Wild Blueberry Producers Association of Nova Scotia.
Mapping fields has already helped blueberry farmers, but Prof. David Percival — who oversees Dalhousie's Wild Blueberry Research Program — has even bigger goals.
Read full story (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/drones-blueberries-farming-costs-money-technology-1.4054715)