Sabotaging the Worlds Crops......

[vaultkeeper]

UN alert:One-fourth of world's wheat at risk from new fungus

World Tribune
Tue, 13 May 2008 19:07 EDT

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned in March (2008) that Iran had detected a new highly pathogenic strain of wheat stem rust called Ug99.

The fungal disease could spread to other wheat producing states in the Near East and western Asia that provide one-quarter of the world's wheat.

The FAO warned stated east of Iran - Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan to be on high alert.

Scientists and international organizations focused on controlling wheat stem rust have said 90 percent of world wheat lines are susceptible to Ug99. The situation is particularly critical in light of the existing worldwide wheat shortage.

The fungus causes dark orange pustules on stems and leaves of infected plants. The pustules can completely girdle stems, damaging their conducting tissue and preventing grain fill. Yield losses may reach 70 percent, while some fields are totally destroyed. If stem rust arrives early in the growing cycle, losses are higher. Spores released by the fungal pustules are spread by the wind and may travel great distances in storms.

Word of the new wheat disease comes amid global shortages of rice and wheat resulting from typhoon-related flooding in Java, Bangladesh, and India and from agricultural pests and diseases in Vietnam. Last year Australia suffered its second consecutive year of severe drought and a near complete crop failure, heavy rains reduced production in Europe, Argentina suffered heavy frost, and Canada and the U.S. both produced low yields.

Food riots have broken out in Egypt, Haiti and several African states, including Mauritania, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso and Senegal in recent months.


I think I smell a rat..........what about you?  

I would also not be surprised if it is proposed that a new type of wheat be developed that is resistant to this new fungus.   Yet another step towards GM domination.

[hilly7]

It's fixin to get a lot smellier too. Most of the family farms, already struggling or like us, do it because it's in our blood, are culling back. Wheat here is reported to already have a fungus in areas. Corn planted was only about 70%, then some of that washed away, and hasn't been replanted. Last year's drought forced many to sell off their livestock (we weathered that one). This year, we will sell from 42 cows down to 5, unless I change my mind. Fuel prices have caused hay to go through the ceiling in price, many fields weren't fertilized due to costs, and already damaged from last year. Most sell to livestock barns where they are bought by feedlots, prices have dropped because of corn prices. That's not counting all the broken up farms with pieces bought by people looking to be self-sufficient (too much TV).
Here is a stat quote I found

In fact, small farms are the most productive on earth. A four-acre farm in the United States nets, on average, $1,400 per acre; a 1,364-acre farm nets $39 an acre.  

[kolnidre]

It's great to have the perspective and experience of a farmer here. Welcome.

Most sell to livestock barns where they are bought by feedlots, prices have dropped because of corn prices. That's not counting all the broken up farms with pieces bought by people looking to be self-sufficient (too much TV).

Am I misreading it when I take it to mean that people looking to be self-sufficient that have bought up smaller pieces of larger farms have been misled by TV? Care to explain or clarify this statement? Are you saying that most of those people that bought farm land have the right idea about self-sufficiency, but have no clue about what it really entails, in terms of cost and and the real hard work necessary? I could definitely see that being the case, but just want to make sure that's what you meant. Thanks in advance.

[hilly7]

Hello and thanks. Yes, it's like a Utopian dream. My wife and I can grow just about everything we need to be self-sufficient, key word being about. Just as I know what soils are here pretty much by looking and location (not scientific), what grows here, how to grow and what part to use, I'd be lost if I changed states, let alone climates.

  We sold a couple of calves to a couple a few weeks ago who didn't have a clue what they were doing. Normally I'd say that practice makes perfect, but this isn't the time to practice, especially if you don't know. They have literal knowledge, but no practical knowledge. Kind of like my wife and I this year harvesting our 1st garlic. We got enough to do us and a couple more families a year, but that was all. We wouldn't have attained that if had it not been from experience on other crops. I also look at this from a real-estate perspective (main job).

1- No matter how great an area is, or how nice the people are, if it is not where they come from, they will always be the new people. Should hunger strike, they will have no alliances, or very few.  

2- Where we are, taxes and land is cheaper, yet so is pay, quite a lot. It's basically a trade off.

3- Most have developed alliances (friends) over many years where they are. This is lost or strained during the move.

4- Just as I know the roads, lay of the lands, soils, climate, who to trust and who not to trust here, I would not elsewhere. Especially in a city.

5- Most have equity built in their house there and here, they usually begin a new higher one. Even if a trade of equal value, there are stock (seed or cattle), machinery, and other start up costs.

6- Sooner or later, most give up and move back. There again, more loans and costs associated with this action again.

7 - The lady who bought the two calves, besides getting injured (her own fault), will probably be injured again. She had bought pot bellied pigs to eat, and chickens that were mostly roosters, odd, she just wanted hens to lay eggs, something they do without assistance from a rooster.

8 - Assuming they can grow enough, can they preserve it, safely and effectively? A screw up is certain death or a wish for it.      

9- In the cities where they may live, or the burbs, they know where to get food, who they can trust, and even with a small yard, a small garden be more effective.

10- Farm lands that are broken usually aren't put back. The houses built alone with make the land useless, and the price too high. Usually it isn't enough ground to even 1/2 do what they need to do.  

11- Banks get foreclosures : ie: get their property back on many, which in turn sell low, which in turn devalue others that came here with the same dream, which makes them lose money not only on selling their start up equipment, but the very country setting they have.

12- That brings us to only one service for food, Big Agri. GM & GE foods through finished product or seed. Use of petrol chemical fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides.

  Who makes money is anybody that works this loop, bankers get the property, Realtors get the commission along with lawyers and closers. Stores and markets get sales. The people realize that self-sufficient isn't really self-sufficient, but only partial. Now the farm they bought part of could have produced enough good produce, is gone. They have no deep alliances with anybody except their creditors. Most will end up broke and hungry, and worse case, homeless. The positive note is, they know farming ain't easy or 100% self.

[kolnidre]

Dammit, my slow computer ate my reply to your reply. The page just hung there for minutes and then when it refreshed my post was gone.

So to keep it brief, thanks for the detailed and thoughtful response, bleak as it is. It reminds me of what happened during China's so-called Great Leap Forward, when politically correct party hacks were put in charge over agricultural and industrial production. Two slogans come to mind, being "better red than expert" and ren ding sheng tian, which is a declaration that humanity can "prevail" over nature. How freaking arrogant! And as proven by the disastrous consequences of Mao's policies, such colossal folly.

The uprooting and transplanting of work brigades only exacerbated the problems by putting hacks in charge of areas where the locals who knew about local conditions were scorned, squandering any chance to get anything viable going, with the result being tens of millions starved and nearly everyone suffering in one way or another.

What are those of us urban and suburban interlopers willing to relocate to the countryside to do?

[joeblow]

They also are using this fungus as a weapon of war against Iran, listen to TiU broadcast:

http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/6347

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Sunday 6th of April 2008
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We're back with some hard insight on the possible bio-weapon known as Ug99. A black stem fungus that's been deployed to devastate the wheat crops of the world to attempt to force public acceptance of genetically engineered wheat by the biotech industry. Grand-scale, unrestrained evil that will kill millions through a calculated Eugenocide.

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Weather warfare
Eugenics
Rothschild control
The Rockefeller, Gates and other front foundations for Eugenics.
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[kolnidre]

They also are using this fungus as a weapon of war against Iran, listen to TiU broadcast:

Good reminder, Agent Blowman. They say it's called "UG99" because it was "discovered" in Uganda, but methinks it's one of those cute Masonic names where "UG" stands for "eugenics," or as HHQ dubbed it, "eugenicide."

The more things develop, the more AJ's Endgame seems on the money.

[kolnidre]

Sorry for the gazillion posts. I kept getting error messages. If a board mod could delete the extra posts I'd appreciate it.

[joeblow]

The more things develop, the more AJ's Endgame seems on the money.

I know I had the same thought. It's lonely being the only 2 AJ fans here.

[vasili69]

there are more than 2 AJ fans here.