Cold, wet weather has left the peppery plant vulnerable to disease.
. Even more upsetting, these kinds of events could become more common thanks to—yep—climate change.
Unusually wet and cold weather in the American Southwest has left arugula crops more susceptible to downy mildew—a fungal disease that can be specifically deadly to arugula—creating the ongoing shortage,. “We definitely haven’t been harvesting much the last couple of weeks,” Matt McGuire, chief agricultural officer of the Yuma, Arizona-based produce company JV Smith, told the site. “In the desert Southwest, we’re supposed to be dry. We usually don’t get rain much, even in the wintertime.
Florida has apparently been able to pick up a bit of the slack, but they too have been facing similar issues. “We shouldn’t be having any rain right now, it’s considered the dry season,” Eberhard Mueller, co-owner of Satur Farms, told The Counter. Overall, a wholesaler in the Detroit area told the site this has been the worst shortage he’s seen in three decades .
Apparently, the further you are from the affected growing regions , the worse the shortage will be because downy mildew can continue to grow during cold shipment even after arugula has been packaged. And the ramifications are being felt coast-to-coast:
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