Goodbye berry ban.

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Some New Yorkers are berry, berry happy to be able to grow black currants once again. A 100-year-old ban on farming the controversial berry in the state was unanimously overturned by both houses of the Legislature in April. Back in 1705, U.S. white pine seedlings were shipped to England that brought a disease--blister root. Over time plant pathologists mistakenly identified black currants as a link in the spread of the disease. By 1911, regulations were passed to ban the...

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