Other Plant Disease — Canada
Fire blight has hit Quebec apple growers especially hard this year [2016], affecting between 80 and 100 orchards out of 130 in the Laurentians region. Eric Rochon, representing the apple industry, said “Currently, we’re in a state of emergency.”
The quality of the apples has not been affected, but the immediate future is going to be a lot of hard work for growers. Rochon says the only way to stop the disease from spreading is to rip out the infected branches. Several orchards have already
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