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Did Wilma spread canker?: In a new blow to citrus growers, a USDA study says that Hurricane Wilma spread citrus canker far and wide, and as a result millions more trees may need.
Publication: The Miami Herald (Miami, Florida) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) Publication Date: 16-DEC-05 |
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COPYRIGHT 2005 The Miami Herald
Byline: Phil Long, The Miami Herald
Dec. 16--VERO BEACH -- The winds from Hurricane Wilma may have spread citrus canker so widely that it could result in the destruction of as many as 170,000 more acres of fruit trees in commercial groves, state citrus officials said Thursday. The estimate is based on a preliminary study given to state and citrus industry leaders this week by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. "I was stunned," said Craig Meyer,...
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