Salt Water Irrigation: Study Shows It Works
Monday, December 15, 2008 - 12:28
in Biology & Nature
Take an arid field riddled with salty soil. Irrigate it with salty water. Plant a salt-tolerant grass along with a salt-sucking companion plant and what do you get? If you're a Brigham Young University research team, you raise a crop that successfully replaces corn as cattle feed.
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