“You kind of have to wonder, is global warming playing a role in this?”
A crop disease in California's Salinas Valley has caused the price of lettuce to rise in Bay Area grocery stores.With inflation, labor shortages and supply chain issues, the prices of common goods are soaring. But if you’ve noticed that the price of lettuce in Bay Area grocery stores is rising too, it’s actually mostly because of a totally different reason.
A new crop disease has hit the Salinas Valley, the area that accounts for more than half of the country’s lettuce, more than $1 billion in value, according to the. As of now, pesticides have shown only limited success in killing the bugs that carry the disease, and organic crops can’t use chemical sprays by law.
The disease is known as Impatiens necrotic spot virus, or INSV, and it is spread mostly by an insect known as a thrip. These millimeter-long creatures migrate from already infected host plants to other crops and spread the disease, according to the Grower-Shipper Association of Central California, whichAccording to the association, plants that become infected with INSV show dark spotting and yellowing, which resembles the natural effects of sunburn on the leaves.
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