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Attack of the killer of tomatoes

Cold, rainy summer has provided perfect conditions for crop-destroying blight

Read article in Globe and Mail here: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/attack-of-the-...

"Mary Ruth McDonald, an agriculture professor at the University of Guelph who specializes in plant diseases, said even producers who use fungicides have had trouble fighting late blight, because plants usually need to be sprayed before they're infected."

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