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Letter: Power lines, big berries, birds and nutrients (3)

Published 8 January 2020

From Hazel Beneke, Bribie Island, Queensland, Australia

While at school in the middle of last century, I remember learning that for deficient soils, power lines were a source of copper, which stimulated crop growth.

Issue no. 3264 published 11 January 2020

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