Everett Griner talks about invasive disease problems, which have been imported through natural causes, for farmers in today’s Agri View.
Imported Invasive Disease Problems
I mentioned several times, once just recently, about farm losses from hurricanes or tornadoes that get little public attention.
For example, soybean rust. A serious problem that was brought to this country by a hurricane. Farmers can control it, but they can’t stop it. Controlling it, it can cost a lot of time and money. I don’t know where it came from, but a hurricane was the origin of it.
More recently, a problem know as cotton blue. A virus transmitted by aphids, brought to the southern cotton farmers from Brazil….by a hurricane. When the problem is discovered, the only choice the farmer has is to begin immediate treatment which is costly, and time consuming. If he intends to produce a crop.
That’s Agri View for today. I’m Everett Griner…
Image credits: (both top feature images) Cotton blue disease (Cotton leafroll dwarf virus)/© State of New South Wales through NSW Department of Industry.
(lower right image) Soybean leaves infected with soybean rust. Photo by Christine Stone/Public Domain, Link