Alternative crop: Scientists tout potential of guar plant at field day
August 8, 2013
Clovis News Journal- “The U.S. spent $1 billion importing guar gum from India in 2011,” crop scientist Dick Auld of Texas Tech University said. “Guar is indigenously adapted to a desert like this.”
Area farmers were introduced Wednesday to a desert crop that is in high demand because of its use in the hydraulic fracturing process.
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“The U.S. spent $1 billion importing guar gum from India in 2011,” crop scientist Dick Auld of Texas Tech University said. “Guar is indigenously adapted to a desert like this.”