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I'm Christopher in Taliatta.

Wisconsin is famous for cheese, but it's also the United States number one producer of a tart red fruit that's on pretty much every Thanksgiving dinner table.

We have this reputation of being the dairy state, but cranberries outnumber the cows.

Susan Hagnis, an electrical engineer at the University

of Wisconsin-Madison. Cranberries, she says, are big business. They're the official state fruit.

And supply chain managers need estimates of the size of the upcoming harvest, which can be hard to make.

The current approach for estimating cranberry yield is literally to go out into the field

and hand pick and hand count all of the cranberries in one square foot area. This is obviously a

very inefficient and laborious approach. There can in fact be up to 900 berries per square foot.

So scientists from Ocean Spray asked Hagnus for help,

and she and her team found in lab tests

that zapping cranberry plants with microwaves

and then studying the signal that bounces back might just work.

Recall that your microwave oven works

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