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Discouraging day at work. The state pathologist found more plants at the farm that tested positive for VSD...vascular streak disease, a fungus that attacks the vascular system of plants. It lays dormant during the cold months, then starts spreading and moving during hot, humid weather. It spreads quickly and kills quickly. So we're having to throw away plants by the hundreds, and will have to dispose of more in the next few weeks. There's no fungicide for it yet. And state agriculture departments have been slow to issue stop-sale or import/export regulations. Really frustrating.