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Mystery Crop Damage Threatens Hundreds Of Acres
WREG News3 ^ | June 1, 2010 | Shaun Chaiyabhat

Posted on 06/02/2010 8:06:19 AM PDT by Kartographer

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.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: agriculture; fungaldisease; fungus; plantdisease
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OK Freeper Gardeners any ideas?
1 posted on 06/02/2010 8:06:19 AM PDT by Kartographer
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To: Kartographer

Sounds like fungus, but the description is pretty thin.


2 posted on 06/02/2010 8:08:06 AM PDT by DBrow
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It’s those oil dispersants that BP is using.


3 posted on 06/02/2010 8:08:08 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( - Free Men will always be armed with the Truth. -)
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Agent orange?


4 posted on 06/02/2010 8:08:39 AM PDT by BreezyDog
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I’m no environazi, but it is puzzling just HOW MANY weird diseases, fungi, and bugs are killing wide swaths of vegetation in different areas.

In the east you have gypsy moths, in the South, you have the weird fungus killing the trees in the Smokies, in the West, something killing the Ponderosa Pines and such...


5 posted on 06/02/2010 8:09:10 AM PDT by RockinRight (I can see November from here!)
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To: RockinRight

Obama’s fault.

No, really.


6 posted on 06/02/2010 8:10:17 AM PDT by DontTreadOnMe2009 (So stop treading on me already!)
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Do we have room for conspiracy theory? Take these phenomena with hybridized plants that reproduce sterile plants and what do you get? A starving nation.
7 posted on 06/02/2010 8:11:35 AM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: Kartographer

Wow, it’s amazing with all going on in the world of politics and war, we have mysterious plant diseases.

It reminds me of the dust storms in the breadbasket of the US beginning at the WORST possible time.


8 posted on 06/02/2010 8:12:02 AM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf aInd dumb to the chariot wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: Kartographer

I mentioned on another thread about this...read H P Lovecraft’s THE BLASTED HEATH. ;-(

WE ALL GONNA DIE!


9 posted on 06/02/2010 8:13:01 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Viva los SB 1070)
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To: Kartographer

Between this, the grasshoppers out west, and the honeybee devestation, maybe God really is sending plagues.


10 posted on 06/02/2010 8:13:03 AM PDT by nhoward14 (A mind is a terrible thing to waste. That is why Obama gave his away.)
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To: Kartographer
Here in Florida it is commonly called a leaf blister. A fungus predominately affecting new foliage in the spring. Many fungicides are effective but must be used prior to the onslaught of the disease. Once leaves are “blistered” they usually die off and fall.
11 posted on 06/02/2010 8:13:20 AM PDT by poobear
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To: Red_Devil 232

ping


12 posted on 06/02/2010 8:14:05 AM PDT by rightly_dividing
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To: Kartographer

An overshot by a crop duster in the area spraying herbicides?

They should contact Mississippi State. They have a top notch agriculture and horticulture program and many talented researchers there.


13 posted on 06/02/2010 8:16:34 AM PDT by penelopesire ("Did you plug the hole yet daddy?")
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To: goodwithagun

They don’t produce sterile plants, you just can’t catch the seed for yourself or Monsanto will sue the pants off of you.

I’m not pooh-poohing the starving nation thing because nature alone could take care of that all by itself. One reason the U.S. has remained prosperous is that the weather is so varied.

One reason fungi might be attacking is that it has been so cold and the plants aren’t healthy.


14 posted on 06/02/2010 8:24:38 AM PDT by tiki
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My mom-in-law had some tomato and pumpkin plants as a result of fruit that fell to the ground and was never picked up. She was quite excited about not having to buy tomatoes and pumpkins last year. Problem was that they never produced anything.


15 posted on 06/02/2010 8:26:51 AM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: Kartographer

Chemtrails


16 posted on 06/02/2010 8:28:42 AM PDT by bgill (how could a young man born here in Kenya, who is not even a native American, become the POTUS)
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Bush’s Fault.


17 posted on 06/02/2010 8:31:51 AM PDT by sitkaspruce
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To: Kartographer

Maybe the release of Sulphur Dioxide and Sulphur Trioxide from the Lucite plant near there on May 25th has something to do with it.


18 posted on 06/02/2010 8:32:04 AM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: Kartographer


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.

Inexpert guess: fungal diseases...


19 posted on 06/02/2010 8:36:00 AM PDT by VOA
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It sounds like a fungus to me.


20 posted on 06/02/2010 8:37:04 AM PDT by Duvexy
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