the.com/crop blight
the field's way of telling you nature does not do refunds.
means a plant disease, often fungal, that spreads fast and rots a crop before harvest can save it.
from from old english blice-ish roots meaning to strike or blast, first pinned to farming in the 1600s when fields would die overnight with no visible cause, as if cursed.
irish faminepotato blight killed a million people, 1840s.
culpritoften a water mold, not a true fungus.
speedcan destroy a field within days.
modern riskmonocultures spread blight faster than diverse crops.