In This Issue: Weather and vegetable production updates | Colorado Potato Beetle update and management, PVY update and management | Disease forecasting updates for potato early blight and late blight | Cucurbit downy mildew updates | Sweet corn tar spot updates and management
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Vegetable Crop Update – Jul 6, 2025
In this issue: WI DATCP Pest Survey, Imported Cabbageworm | Disease forecasting updates for potato early blight and late blight | Cucurbit downy mildew updates | UW Hancock Agricultural Research Station Field Day Agenda 2025
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
Vegetable Crop Update – Jun 22, 2025
In This Issue: Impacts of current weather on potato productivity | Water quality program – irrigation water testing for nitrogen | Disease forecasting updates for potato early blight and late blight | Cucurbit downy mildew updates | Squash vine borer, Potato leafhopper, Cucumber beetles, Aster leafhopper, Colorado Potato beetles and their management
Vegetable Crop Update – Jun 15, 2025
In This Issue: Disease forecasting updates for potato early blight and late blight | Cucurbit downy mildew updates | White mold on vegetables | Seedcorn maggot and Colorado potato beetle risks and management
Vegetable Crop Update – Jun 8, 2025
In This Issue: Temperature, precipitation, and air quality impacts on vegetable production | Disease forecasting updates for potato early blight and late blight | Cucurbit downy mildew updates | Cabbage maggot, seedcorn maggot, and Colorado potato beetle risks and management
Vegetable Crop Update – Jun 2, 2025
In this issue: Potato Leafhopper updates and management | Aphids – updates on suction traps and implications | Disease forecasting updates for potato early blight and late blight | Cucurbit downy mildew updates
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