The fresh season on Hatch chile was much shorter than usual this year. "Early on we had a really really heavy outbreak of curly top virus. That's typically spread by insects called leafhoppers but we really didn't have a severe outbreak or plague of leafhoppers at all this year," says Preston Mitchell of…
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