Thread: Mystery Crop Damage Threatens Hundreds Of Acres

there is video from a news station in Memphis at this link showing the damage.




Mystery Crop Damage Threatens Hundreds Of Acres

Shaun Chaiyabhat

6:21 PM CDT, June 1, 2010


FAST FACTS:

* Small dots appear to "burn" through leaves
* Area affected is along Tipton and Shelby County line
* Farmers afraid they may lose their entire crop


(Memphis 6/1/2010) A mystery is unfolding across MidSouth farms.

Something is killing crops, trees, even weeds and nobody can explain why.

Farmers are scratching their heads and some are worried their crops may be lost to the mysterious plague.

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It's happening along a large swath of land near the Shelby and Tipton county border along Herring Hill Road and elsewhere near the Mississippi River bottoms.

Tiny dots appear to have burned onto leaves of all types of plants, and they appear different depending on the plant.

On corn stalks, the dots seem to turn white in the center.

On other plants, a white dust speckles the leaves and then destroys the green life underneath.

"We found it all in the herbs, in the flowers, in the plum tree, in the weeds," said organic farmer Toni Holt. "It's apparently in everything."

Holt grows organic produce that she sells at area farmers' markets.

As she and other farmers inspect the new growth covered in the perplexing plague, they fear their entire crop may be lost.

Less than ten miles from Holt's crops, the damage could possibly hit hundreds of acres of corn at Wilder Farms.

It appears to have hit everything in its path.

There does not seem to be anything in common with the affected plants.

The Holts raise organic crops, so they don't spray pesticides on any of their fruits and vegetables.

The first thought among some was a new parasite or insect caused the damage, but Wilder farms sprays pesticides and the damage there is exactly the same.

Farmers first noticed the damaging dots over the weekend.

Then Holt came home to find baby birds dead in their nests.

"There are two dead birds hanging out of two different bird houses, so we're concerned about that. We don't know if it's related, but it's alarming," said Holt. "We've got horses, we're concerned about the horses on the grass. We've got chickens. We sell our eggs at the market."

Farmers we spoke with are convinced something in the air caused this damage.

They're asking the USDA and other experts to look into the problem, and so are we.




http://www.wreg.com/news/wreg-mystery-c ... 7535.story

Kathyet

Many seeds are engineered today. They are hybrid seeds designed to kill weeds and some disease. Perhaps too much weed control was bred into the seed or too little disease control.
Organic "heritage" seeds are often prone to disease, which is exactly why the seeds are now engineered.
Wet weather will spread disease quickly. Southern blight nearly ruined tomato crops last year.
That said, it is also possible that spraying of some type is killing the plants. With today's technology, can't the plants be tested?

This has nothing to do with seeds... this is about "Something is killing crops, trees, even weeds and nobody can explain why."

The GMO seeds is something else and there is a link to that about Monsanto here in a brasscheck video I brought over....

This is two different things..

Kathyet

As others are saying, it could be new chemicals used in the "chemtrails'.

Originally Posted by USA_born

As others are saying, it could be new chemicals used in the "chemtrails'.

Please do not post about chemtrails here at ALIPAC. This is a credible organization and that conspiracy theory has no credibility and very few backers.

We respect a very diverse range of views here at ALIPAC and the views expressed here are not those of our organization, but to be honest with you I cringe anytime I see someone post the word "chemtrails" on our site.

I'd really prefer it if you would forgo that topic here at ALIPAC.

W

I wonder if this might have anything to do with the chemicals they are spraying on the oil in the gulf?

W

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

I wonder if this might have anything to do with the chemicals they are spraying on the oil in the gulf?

W

Maybe who knows,a lot of that area is on the Delta and anything could travel up in the water ways.it is pretty far from the area where the oil is but who know...it is a shame.....We just came back from that area and it is just beautiful, green and thick with lots of vegetation as well as Cotton and Corn. I will say it wasn't happening a month or so ago or at least not that I saw or heard we were real close to the Mississippi River......


Kathyet