Growers await chemical decision
http://www.sacbee.com/2010/03/07/2586277/growers-await-chemical-decision.html
"In a fourth floor state office overlooking Sacramento City Hall, Mary-Ann Warmerdam must make a contentious choice about how farmers grow one of America's favorite foods – the strawberry.
http://www.sacbee.com/2010/03/07/2586277/growers-await-chemical-decision.html
"In a fourth floor state office overlooking Sacramento City Hall, Mary-Ann Warmerdam must make a contentious choice about how farmers grow one of America's favorite foods – the strawberry.
In classic California fashion, her decision as head of the Department of Pesticide Regulation, or DPR, represents an environmental showdown being watched nationally, even globally.
Warmerdam, chief farm chemical regulator in a state that grows nearly 90 percent of U.S. strawberries, will decide in weeks whether growers can use a soil fumigant known as methyl iodide."
