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

[Serpo]

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."

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-crop-damage%2C0%2C187535.story?track=rss

[EE_]

The final bubble is coming...the food bubble

[big country]

Chem Trails?

[EE_]

Chem Trails?


Goldman Sachs?

[The Great Ag]

If the new blight is a plant virus, bacteria or fungus, I wonder what a 32ppm spray of colloidial silver would do?

It would be worth a try. If it worked on one plant, load a crop duster with it and spray away. The organic farmers would not mind as CS is it classified as a pesticide, fungicide or herbicide.

Just a thought.

The Great Ag

[Large Sarge]

probably is chemtrails, they find fungal spores, bacteria, dessicated red blood cells, etc in them

I would try spraying hydrogen peroxide first

http://www.using-hydrogen-peroxide.com/gardening-with-hydrogen-peroxide.html

[SLV^GLD]

The final bubble is coming...the food bubble
I thought bubbles were where a commodity was over valued thanks to hysteria and unsustainable market prices.
I don't quite see food fitting that paradigm.
It will be a real shortage and how much is too much for a square meal?
That's not a bubble.

[Large Sarge]

video on the story

http://www.wreg.com/news/wreg-mystery-crop-damage%2C0%2C187535.story?track=rss

[Cebu_4_2]

TPTB are scrambling, they are at the end of their rope. At any cost they will do whatever they can to keep power but in this state they can not even think straight.

Only moments in time it will all end. TPTB will end. All this bull shyt will end.

[Horn]

BP disspersants? Says it's in Mississippi area.

[Large Sarge]

BP disspersants? Says it's in Mississippi area.



I checked

it is actually a county line around memphis

I thought of that also

Seems like it would hit further south first

but maybe??


tipton county here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipton_County,_Tennessee

shelby county is the one to the south

[Large Sarge]

BP disspersants? Says it's in Mississippi area.



the plants look burned to me, and they mention the birds are dead.

have to see if it spreads?

if its bacterial/fungal/viral, it will spread

if its chemical no contagion.

have to watch

[Horn]

Could be discussants, sent aloft, that shit's probably lighter than air to begin with, I have no idea why they're spraying it over the Gulf??

[Large Sarge]

going to have to stay out of the rain

or if you do get rained on, take a good shower immediately, throw your clothes in the wash, etc

I am thinking it is chemicals from the gulf, the plants look burned.

[EE_]

The final bubble is coming...the food bubble
I thought bubbles were where a commodity was over valued thanks to hysteria and unsustainable market prices.
I don't quite see food fitting that paradigm.
It will be a real shortage and how much is too much for a square meal?
That's not a bubble.


As soon as there is any kind of shortage, watch the mania of people stock piling everything they can get their hands on. It will be a bubble alright, a bubble of panic and mayham like we've never seen before.
Prices will get out of hand.

[SLV^GLD]

Prices will get out of hand.
[/quote]
Your postulation begs the question, "how much is too much for a square meal". I am not entirely disagreeing with your premise, I just don't think the terminology fits because you can't sit on an empty stomach nor can you flip meals for better meals and the like. Shelter is a flexible commodity in terms of what it might comprise; food, not so much.
"Prices getting out of hand" will not be the result of consumer infatuation, the whole shebang will be a result of absolute instinctual mass reaction to a real threat.

[Ponce]

OK class?..........lesson number one.......BUY FOOD, BUY FOOD, BUY FOOD.

LESSON NUMBER 2?..........BUY FOOD.

Many factors are coming up which points to problems with food......

"Get ready today for the way that you want to live tomorrow"... Ponce

PS: Keep and eye open for the water, problems ahead.

[Horn]

going to have to stay out of the rain

or if you do get rained on, take a good shower immediately, throw your clothes in the wash, etc

I am thinking it is chemicals from the gulf, the plants look burned.




Yes, if not a hoax which doesn't appear to be, all those stories about that particular area seem to be adding up in this evidence. Makes sense anyway that Gulf humidity would condense and fall as rain in those areas...

[mick silver]

i have not seen nothing here in ky , the corn and every thing else look good so far . we cut almost 100 ac of hay and it was some of the best i have seen in years . but it dont mean were out of the woods yet

[Horn]

I would have to say that if its the Gulf stuff, it has made it to Idaho! I planted my started plants on May 15th. They all have spots on their leaves and look like Sheet!


They have those brown burns on them?

I'm aware the Solar cycle is at an alltime lull, the weather is kinda flipped due to it.

Related?

[CJay8]

BP disspersants? Says it's in Mississippi area.



I checked

it is actually a county line around memphis

I thought of that also

Seems like it would hit further south first

but maybe??


tipton county here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipton_County,_Tennessee

shelby county is the one to the south




I live in north Mississippi, not too far from this latest "sign of the apocalypse." First I heard of this was after the devastating rains we had back around the first week of May. Nothing to report on where I live. My roses,trees, etc... all seem to be doing fine.

However, I've been gone for 2 weeks so who know's what I'll find when I finally get home on Saturday.

[wildcard]

I think it's spreading. I went out to check my garden and found this on my strawberry plants.

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii46/Dolvio/April20-2010001.jpg?t=1276037452

[Horn]

Where do you live, wildcard?

[Large Sarge]

I think it's spreading. I went out to check my garden and found this on my strawberry plants.

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii46/Dolvio/April20-2010001.jpg?t=1276037452

without being to personal

where are you at?

any animals dead?

is it on everything (weeds, trees, etc)???

give us some more info please

[Horn]

Found another thread out there.

http://www.topix.net/forum/source/wreg/TE2K7CM75P7F93C5M

[SLV^GLD]

Seriously, my strawberries have parts that look like that every year.
Where is the widespread destruction?
Where is isolation of the cause?
This whole thing reeks of hysteria to me.
Show me the square mile of defoliation and I'll start paying attention.
So far, I've seen nothing but typical insect and dehydration damage on some isolated plants.

[wildcard]

I'm about 100 miles from memfrica. And there is no dehydration around here. It's been flooding this year. We have only had a handful of days without rain.

It's only on my strawberries as far as I can tell, but strawberries are pretty sensitive aren't they?

*and no dead critters as far as I can tell.

[Large Sarge]

Found another thread out there.

http://www.topix.net/forum/source/wreg/TE2K7CM75P7F93C5M


from that site
seems a little more widespread than they are saying, Miss, Tenn, etc

the part of the sulfurtrioxide release, if true, would fit

they look burned to me

and the acid might kill some birds

I am still leaning chemical, not biological

[osoab]

I was reading the comments of the story and found this @ the beginning.



On May 25th, the Lucite facility next to Dupont on Hwy 51 and Fite Road in Millington had a chemical leak of sulfur trioxide. The chemical could easily have evaporated in our local atmosphere then recondensed as acid rain on nearby plants. Chemical burns can cause that kind of spotty damage. Sulfur trioxide combined with H2O results in sulfuric acid (SO3 + H2O = H2SO4) Wikipedia defines Acid Rain as ... "caused by emissions of compounds of ammonium, carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur which react with the water molecules in the atmosphere to produce acids..." WREG carried that story but I'd like to see the two stories linked

http://www.wreg.com/news/wrg-dupont-leak,0,6066916.story

Listening to this report, seems that the story is being downplayed.

I don't know what the weather patterns were from 5/25 to the tv report date of 6/1. Heck the story could have been taped the day before. Spots would have been around a day or two previous to the reporters showing up. Anyone know how long sulfur trioxide lingers?

I have noticed more sun burn than usual when seedlings were first planted or sprouted this year. Not on everything, though.

[Quantum]

We are getting pounded with chemtrails around here for the last several days. HEAVY trails. And lots of people are sick and the behavior of many is obviously different than normal, like they are stressed. Fortunately, no overt effect on plants...yet.