Sacramento, Calif., Insect-Hunting SWAT Team Helps Disarm Agriculture Pest.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, June, 2004
By Melanie Payne, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jun. 12–Two members of Sacramento County’s glassy-winged sharpshooter team were sent Friday to Solano County to assist officials there in dealing with an infestation of the disease-carrying agricultural pest.
The glassy-winged sharpshooter carries Pierce’s disease, which is deadly to grapevines u California’s second-largest agricultural commodity with $2.6 billion in cash receipts in 2003.
Sacramento County has an eight-member team focused on the eradication and control of the pest that first appeared here in July 2000, said Dave Wilson, Chief Deputy Agricultural Commissioner sacramento pest control
Sacramento, Calif., Insect-Hunting SWAT Team Helps Disarm Agriculture Pest.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, June, 2004
By Melanie Payne, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jun. 12–Two members of Sacramento County’s glassy-winged sharpshooter team were sent Friday to Solano County to assist officials there in dealing with an infestation of the disease-carrying agricultural pest.
The glassy-winged sharpshooter carries Pierce’s disease, which is deadly to grapevines u California’s second-largest agricultural commodity with $2.6 billion in cash receipts in 2003.
Sacramento County has an eight-member team focused on the eradication and control of the pest that first appeared here in July 2000, said Dave Wilson, Chief Deputy Agricultural Commissioner
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