A soil biofumigant developed for both conventional and organic farms offers a new tool in what is becoming an increasingly restrictive practice. Soil fumigation helps eliminate soil-borne diseases, replant problems, nematodes, and weeds, and gets perennial crops off to a good start. But the application is becoming more difficult because the chemicals are under increasingly restrictive regulations, resulting in rate reductions, shrinking buffer zones, tarp film requirements, and the need for fumigation management plans, among other effects. One of the most effective fumigants, methyl bromide, is being phased out because it’s an ozone-depleting chemical. “It had good efficacy against ring […]