Pink eye of potato

Pink eye is a disorder of potato tubers that can cause costly storage losses for potato growers and can reduce tuber quality to the point where tubers will be rejected by potato processors. Pink eye not only directly affects tubers, but also makes tubers more susceptible to diseases such as Pythium leak, bacterial soft rot, pink rot, and Fusarium dry rot. These diseases cause additional storage losses and reduction in quality.

Vegetable Crop Update – Aug 10, 2025

In This Issue: Onion thrips updates and management | Western bean cutworm updates and management | Disease forecasting updates for potato early blight and late blight | Cucurbit downy mildew, cucurbit powdery mildew updates and management | Onion Stemphylium updates and management

Vegetable Crop Update – Aug 3, 2025

In this issue: Potato production updates and weather review | Imported Cabbage Worm and Squash Bug updates and management | Disease forecasting updates for potato early blight and late blight | Cucurbit downy mildew updates | Nicotianae blight of potato – a late blight ‘look alike’

Vegetable Crop Update – Jul 27, 2025

In this issue: Updates and management of Western bean cutworm and European corn borer insect pests in vegetables | Disease forecasting updates for potato early blight and late blight | Cucurbit downy mildew updates | Basil downy mildew confirmations and management recommendations