Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Niagara fruit crops holding up - San Francisco Business Times:

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But many more orchards and other including residential areas in the Lake OntarioFrui Belt, remain to be tested for plum pox virus befored September. Teams working for the and the state Department of Agriculturew and Markets began taking leaf samplexin May. Subsequent laboratoryh tests did not disclose any new outbreakd of the virus inNiagara County, Jackie Klahn, directod of the USDA’s Lockport field office, said. In early May, as orchardds blossomed, optimism was growing that the spread of the which made its Niagara County debut 2006 mightbe waning.
Betweenn 2006 and 2008, plum pox was discovered in several NiagarsCounty orchards, in Orleans Countyg and Wayne County, east of Rochester. Though harmlesws to humans and animals, the virus posesa an economic risk for commerciaol fruit growers because they must destroy all susceptiblwe treeswithin 1.5 miles to 2 miles of an identifief hot spot. Plum pox destroys the commercial value of the fruift that it attacks because it discolorz anddisfigures peaches, plums, prunes and nectarines. In New York statde counties lying alongLake Ontario’s south fruit growing is a multi-million-dollar industry.

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