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AI Crop Pest Detection, Virtual Fencing & Christmas Tree Prices | Daily Farm Brief
Artificial intelligence is learning to listen for crop pests, cattle are being managed by fences you can’t see, and America’s Christmas-tree growers are heading toward the 2026 holiday season with relatively stable wholesale prices.
Rick Portanova also covers the Old Farmer’s Almanac word “cornscateous,” a 3,699-pound world-record pumpkin pie, and the Montana mountain goat that wandered into Bozeman and ended up at a church.
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