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peer-reviewed research article

Acid fog injures California crops

authors

Robert C. Musselman
Patrick M. McCool
Jerry L. Sterrett

publication information

California Agriculture 42(4):6-7. DOI: 10.3733/ca.v042n04p6. July-August 1988.

abstract

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The effect of acid rain on agricultural crops has been studied extensively in the past decade by plant scientists in the United States. Research has shown that agricultural crops can be injured as acidity in rain approaches pH 3. Since this level of acidity is rarely reached in normal rainfall in California, acid rain had been thought to be of little or no consequence to agriculture in this state.