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Farmers eye drones as key to future of agriculture

02/27/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
The drone could be ready to take its place alongside the tractor and combine harvester, as the next indispensable piece of farming equipment. The Federal Aviation Administration recently released new rules governing the use of drones, and farmers, who see…

$40G per bird? California cormorants refuse to budge from bridge being demolished

11/10/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
Now that a crucial section of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge has been replaced by a new $6.4 billion span, nobody needs it anymore — nobody except about 800 birds who call the decrepit, 78-year-old segment home. The double-crested cormorants…