Hi Net types..... "Scientists use farm sounds to gauge environmental health http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/2006/s1882685.htm
Tuesday, 27/03/2007 In the future farmers could be marketing their fruit, wool or meat with sound. Victorian scientists are working with Professor Stuart Gage from Michigan State University in the US, to measure farm sounds. Professor Gage says scientists can analyse the recordings of bird calls and man-made noises to measure the environmental health of a farm. He says the next step is to use it in marketing. "That may be the key to being able to sell the products overseas," he said. "For example there's always a question 'are you producing green and healthy plants that can be sold[?]' and we could send a little sound byte of that ecosystem with the apples that we would send overseas [so] people could listen to how healthy that environment is." mmmmm... patrick
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