A disease could drastically reduce next year’s strawberry yield in Virginia.
Neopestalotiopsis disease, which first appeared several years ago in Florida, can cause light to dark brown spots on plant leaves and rotting of the fruit. To avoid it, some growers started getting their plants from a supplier in Canada. But now, major nurseries there are also seeing symptoms, and they’ve recently warned the fruit growers.
Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
