SPRAY TELL: Bread & Wine: The chemical trail through wheat and grapes (Part Five)

Newseze Wire·Mon, Sep 14, 7:07 PMWire: Daily Maverick

There’s a price to pay for our love of bread and wine in the chemicals commonly used to grow wheat and grapes. Most of that bill is paid in farm soils, neighbouring veld and rivers downstream.

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SPRAY TELL: Bread & Wine: The chemical trail through wheat and grapes (Part Five)

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