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Québec ag minister announces $1M for horticultural innovation

On August 26, André Lamontagne announced investments totaling more than $1 million to accelerate the adoption of innovative agricultural technologies by Quebec horticultural companies.

The objective is to offer producers in the market gardening sector and the strawberry and raspberry, greenhouse, apple and potato sectors concrete technological solutions, such as robots, automated tools or intelligent sensors, to respond to their challenges related to climate change, the environment and labour scarcity. These solutions will ultimately increase the competitiveness and productivity of agricultural businesses.

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It's summertime in Minnesota as a yellow Air Tractor agricultural application aircraft -- a crop duster -- responds to the control inputs of its pilot in a low-altitude dance just above the tops of the cornstalks. Enjoy! And we found a Bell 206 Long Ranger spray helicopter perched on a support truck at the edge of the cornfields, and launching from there. In our video, you can occasionally hear the rotor sounds of the crop-dusting helicopter as we see the yellow Air Tractor in a nearby field.