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Growers are faced with an ever-changing list of commercial tools, each with the promise of providing some advantage to the farmer.

Mandarins, also known as zipper skins and easy peelers can have very fragile peels/skins/rinds/exocarp that make them easily subject to more damage than most oranges and lemons.

PULLMAN, Wash. Soil pathogen testing - critical to farming, but painstakingly slow and expensive - will soon be done accurately, quickly, inexpensively and onsite, thanks to research that Washington State University scientists plant pathologists are sharing.

This article first appeared in Sacramento Valley Orchard Source http://www.sacvalleyorchards.

So, this image comes across with the question of what is going on. It's a grapefruit, but what is going on with the leaves? It's happening to two grapefruit side by side or two different ages. It's not affecting other citrus nearby, and not a grapefruit several hundred feet away.