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The famed Medjool date was introduced into the Bard Valley in 1948. A disease process called the bayoud disease had devastated the Mejool population in its native Morocco for several decades beginning around 1870.

In early 1927, Dr. Walter Swingle from the U.S. Department of Agriculture traveled to Morocco to evaluate the disease killing the Medjools. Based on what Dr. Swingle and his colleaguesfound, he made a decision to purchase and import 11 offshoots taken from a single female palm from Morocco in 1927.