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Transcript: Growers Worry Blight Could Wipe Out Tomato Crops
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- July 10, 2009
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STEVE INSKEEP
NPR Morning Edition
07-10-2009
Growers Worry Blight Could Wipe Out Tomato Crops
Host: STEVE INSKEEP
Time 11:00-12:00 PM
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STEVE INSKEEP, host:
Farmers in the Northeast are having a bad time with all the wet weather this spring. And now they're facing another big threat, called late blight. This is the disease that led to the Irish Potato Famine. Maine Public Radio's Susan Sharon reports.
SUSAN SHARON: At the Goranson Organic Vegetable Farm in Dresden, Maine, even the pigs are tired of the rain. The sunflowers are drooping. And farmer Rob Johanson, is worried about late blight. The disease is characterized by water soaked greasy lesions on plant leaves. And it's been ...
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