Thread: Mystery Crop Damage Threatens Hundreds Of Acres

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

Video at site:

(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.

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 ... ?track=rss

that's not good... video at the site...

Have they seen chemtrails in the area lately?

USA_born wrote:

Have they seen chemtrails in the area lately?

They didn't go into that, just say they think it is in the air. Watch the video at the site - pictures are worth a thousand words.

I had something similar to this on my collard plant last year. Suddenly the entire plant was covered with pin sized yellow to white bumps all over the leaves. I looked for bugs but there were none and I dont know what caused it. I never ate it, but just took it out and grew another one. The next one was fine. Now this year I notice strange white spots on some of the tomato leaves. Its not fungus, I dont know what it is, but I started a new tomato plant and I am going to get rid of the spotted one. There are no spots on the tomatoes though.....just the leaves. None of the other plants are affected. Turnips, chives, beans, kale, parsley, cilantro, squash....all are ok. The spots on the tomato plant leaves are weird, the spot goes all the way through the leaf as opposed to being on top of the leaf. It has no bugs on it that I can see. The new tomato plants dont have it, only the old one has it. It seemed to happen right after it rained quite heavily, but I dont know if that had anything to do with it.