Source: Shelby Vittek, MODERN FARMER, 3/22/21

Scientists are working to get to the root of rapid apple decline. Sarah Lott Zost’s great-grandfather planted his first apple tree in 1927 in Gardners, Pennsylvania. Nearly a century later, the fourth-generation farmer is facing a never-seen-before challenge in Bonnie Brae Fruit Farms’ 700 acres of orchards. Several years ago, after planting a new Gala apple orchard, Zost noticed something terribly wrong with some of the trees.

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