A Pesky Rumble: Pink Bollworms Vs. Cotton Farmers
b'The pink bollworm \\u2014 an invasive species that plagues cotton farmers around the world \\u2014 has been successfully eradicated from much of the U.S. and Mexico. Eradication campaigns rarely work, but this one did. NPR food and farming reporter Dan Charles gives us the play-by-play to how it took two concurrent approaches to eradicate this devastating pest.
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