For strawberries, it’s diversify or die

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By Nathanael JohnsonAug 5, 2015, 7:40 pm94 ptsTrending
Over the last few decades, strawberry farmers have relied on a fumigant called methyl bromide. Even organic strawberries generally start out in nurseries with fumigated soil. But that pesticide depletes the ozone, and the EPA told people to stop using it back in 2005. Farmers keep getting exemptions because…

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