Monday, June 07, 2010
Mystery Crop Damage Threatens Hundreds Of Acres...
Very local news for me.
via WREG
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.
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."
More at the link.
No sign of anything like this at my place, but I'm going to keep an eye out now.
I can't afford to have my gardens and fruit trees wiped out.
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Labels: Food Blight, Gardening
