For fruit crops, Pritts explains that offspring are often lower in quality than either parent.
—
SJ McShane,
Martha Stewart,
27 June 2026
Under the Biden administration, federal taxpayers paid farmers billions of dollars to stop planting crops, but that's considered a short-term solution too expensive to maintain indefinitely.
The unrest began in mid-March but has intensified, leaving at least three dead as vigilantes armed with spears, clubs, and whips assaulted migrants and destroyed their homes.
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Lauren Morganbesser,
semafor.com,
28 June 2026
In grainy videos, marchers, sometimes draped in South African flags and carrying clubs and leather whips, smashed shop windows and beat migrants in the streets.
—
Ryan Lenora Brown,
Christian Science Monitor,
26 June 2026
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