Pros And Cons Of Growing Above Dirt:Soilless farming has proven possible but not practical — yet

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GROWING strawberries in California used to be a lot simpler when methyl bromide was easy to get, not to mention cheap. But since the phase-out of the powerful fumigant began following the Montreal Protocol, farming berries is becoming a lot more complicated. For example, last year California growers produced 88% of the U.S. total on 40,000 acres, but there are Critical Use Exemptions (CUE) this year for just 10,000 acres.