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'Morning Edition' Returns: A Spicy Battle Against Pests Dutch farmers are spraying Tabasco sauce onto fields of wheat, lettuce and carrots as a way to shoo off pests. As one farmer put it, one bite and they go "three feet in the air."
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'Morning Edition' Returns: A Spicy Battle Against Pests

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Dutch farmers are spraying Tabasco sauce onto fields of wheat, lettuce and carrots as a way to shoo off pests. As one farmer put it, one bite and they go "three feet in the air."