U.S. Tomato Crops Face Major Late Blight Fungus Risk! (Northeast & Mid-Atlantic States)

I love tomatoes. I do not know what I will do if tomatoes become hard to get. However, it appears that tomato costs may soon be rising if not worse. It appears that a fungus similar to the one that caused the Potato Famine in Ireland back in the day is spreading to tomato crops and there may be no defenses. One professor has said that he has never seen such a widespread fungi tomato infection.

A highly contagious fungus that destroys tomato plants has quickly spread to nearly every state in the Northeast and the mid-Atlantic, and the weather over the next week may determine whether the outbreak abates or whether tomato crops are ruined, according to federal and state agriculture officials.

Source: The New York Times