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IN the days before the War, which now seem to us so incredibly peaceful and remote, we were suddenly startled by Press announcements that an American professor had discovered how to farm without soil, and visions were evoked of intensive methods that would revolutionize crop production. One journalist went so far as to assert that all the wheat needed by Great Britain could, on this new method, be grown on an area the size of Euston Station.
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RUSSELL, J. Farming without Soil. Nature 146, 448–449 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146448a0
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