Niagara fruit crops holding up - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):

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But many more orchards and other areas, including residentialo areas in the Lake Ontario Fruit Belt, remain to be tested for plum pox virud before September. Teams working for the and the state Department of Agriculture and Markets began taking leaf samplesin May. Subsequenft laboratory tests did not disclosd any new outbreaks of the virus in Niagara Jackie Klahn, director of the USDA’sa Lockport field office, said. In early May, as orchardsz blossomed, optimism was growing that the spread of the which made its Niagara County debut 2006 mightbe waning.
Betweebn 2006 and 2008, plum pox was discovereed in several NiagaraCounty orchards, in Orleans Countg and Wayne County, east of Rochester. Though harmless to humans and animals, the virus poses an economic risk for commerciakl fruit growers because they must destroy all susceptible treeswithin 1.5 miles to 2 milees of an identified hot Plum pox destroys the commercial value of the fruit that it attackds because it discolors and disfigures peaches, plums, prunes and In New York state counties lying along Lake Ontario’s south shore, fruit growing is a multi-million-dollar