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Recycling To Reduce Pesticide Use
After years of search one company may have an alternative to soil-blasting with methyl bromide: seeds leftover from cooking oil and biofuel production.
After years of searching for an alternative for the kill-everything soil fumigant methyl bromide, one company thinks it may have an answer: leftover mustard seeds from biofuel production. Amy Coombs reports.