Every breath feels like a deep clean in your nose— like the sharp sting of horseradish or wasabi— as the tractor turns mustard seed meal into the soil. But will it create a clean slate for a new orchard as it does for your sinuses?That's the question being tested at a field trial in Washington's Columbia Basin over the next few years, as grower lim Baird plants Cosmic Crisp this spring on a replant site treated with mustard seed meal last year as an alternative to fumigation.
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