In this issue: Updates on potato fertility research and irrigation management in potato | Seedcorn maggot management, Colorado Potato Beetle management, vegetable leafminers | Disease forecasting updates for potato early blight and late blight | Cucurbit downy mildew updates
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Vegetable Crop Update – May 18, 2025
In this issue: Disease forecasting updates for potato early blight and late blight | Damping-off diseases of vegetables | Cucurbit downy mildew updates
Vegetable Crop Update – May 11, 2025
In this issue: Cabbage Maggot and its management | Early blight and late blight disease risk summary for early season in central WI | Potato Scouting Class – May 21 UW Hancock ARS (1-4PM)
Vegetable Crop Update – May 4, 2025
In this issue: Lorox DF Special Local Need label approved for WI carrot production | Nitrate-N in irrigation water | Timing of reduced-risk insecticides, Colorado Potato Beetle Management | Considerations for early blight management
Vegetable Crop Update – Apr 26, 2025
In This Issue: Seedcorn maggot and Asparagus beetle descriptions and management | Round up of pest, disease, and agronomic tools to support decision-making | Deep frost this winter limits potato volunteers and late blight risk in 2025
Decision support tool roundup – Spring 2025
There are many online tools available to growers to aid in decision-making when it comes to weather-based risks. Here we feature a few of our favorites.
Vegetable Crop Update – Apr 22, 2025
In this issue: Chlorothalonil registration updates | Links to the Commercial Vegetable Production in Wisconsin A3422 Guide, the WI Potato and Vegetable Growers Association & UWEX Grower Education Conference Proceedings, Wisconet, and the UW Vegetable Disease and Insect Forecasting Network tool
Update 17 – Sep 9, 2024
In This Issue: Potato late blight and early blight updates. Cucurbit downy mildew updates.
Update 16 – Sep 1, 2024
In This Issue: Potato production updates. Potato late blight and early blight updates. Cucurbit downy mildew updates.
Cucumber Downy Mildew Confirmed in Adams Co. WI
Downy mildew on cucumber foliage was confirmed today from a commercial pickling cucumber field in Adams County. This is the first confirmed diagnosis of this disease in Wisconsin in 2024.