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By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
March 17, 2009
MEDFORD — The Fruit Growers League, founded in 1913 to help Rogue Valley pear growers fight a blight, has disbanded, a victim of consolidation in the growing business.
At its formation to deal with fire blight, a bacterial disease that kills pear and apple trees, there were about 400....