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New Zealand woman sets sheep shearing world record

January 19, 2024
A woman from New Zealand set a new record during a sheep shearing competition, where she had achieved an average of 58 sheep sheared an hour for eight hours. Catherine Mullooly, an experienced competition shearer from the city of Gisborne, had set a new world record of 465 ewes (female sheep) sheared in total in […]
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‘The Terminator’ meets crop farming: high-tech solution to repel birds

December 4, 2023
A new laser scarecrow system has undergone further testing and study by researchers from the University of Rhode Island (URI) in the Northeastern United States in 2022, designed to deter birds from open fields in farms. The system can scare away birds by producing bright, constantly moving green lasers across cornfields and other crops using […]
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