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Commentary: Can California avert a potential citrus apocalypse?

I don't usually just wave agents of the state into my house. But when a nice lady from the California Department of Food and Agriculture showed up at my door recently, I welcomed her with a genuine smile.

"You're here for the psyllids, right?" I asked, as two masked men on the street waited for her orders. "Come on in!"

The crew spread through my garden to look at all the citrus trees. I've got 12, including a dwarf kumquat, a blooming calamansi, and

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