Camouflaging wheat with a wheat smell could be a new approach to pest control
Wheat germ oil spread over a wheat field makes finding the seeds too much effort for mice
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Mice are tiny, but their appetites are big. Rodents are responsible for the loss of 70 million metric tons of cereals per year. One solution? Camouflage the wheat — with more wheat.
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