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Vegetable Crop Update – Jul 26, 2026

In this issue: Dry Weather and Irrigation Considerations for Vegetables | Potato Early and Late Blight Disease Risk Model Updates | Blackleg, Aerial Stem Blight, Tuber Soft Rot of Potato Management | Cucurbit Downy Mildew Update | Potato and Sugar Beet Diseases

Vegetable Crop Update – Jun 29, 2025

In This Issue: Diamondback moth, Japanese beetle, Asiatic garden beetle, Colorado potato beetle updates and management | Disease forecasting updates for potato early blight and late blight | Cucurbit downy mildew updates | Blackleg and aerial stem rot in potato – updates and management

Update 14 – Aug 18, 2024

In This Issue: Potato and bean production updates. Potato and vegetable disease forecasting updates – thresholds met for late blight and early blight treatments. Cucurbit downy mildew. Bacterial blackleg and aerial limb rot of potato.

Update 12 – June 28, 2020

In This Issue: Potato production updates. Disease forecasting for early and late blight in potato. Blackleg of potato.