This Texas shrub could help save U.S. rubber

Get the Full StoryRubber may be the most important agricultural product in America and it s in danger. Now, scientists and growers are working to cultivate solutions.

For more than a decade, Jody Scott tended shrubs in a dry field in southern Arizona. A lifelong farmer of myriad crops, Scott calls this the most boring thing he s ever grown. And growing it, he said, was the funnest job I ever had.

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