Salt water irrigation: Study shows it works

Tuesday, December 16, 2008 - 10:21 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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