In This Issue: Late blight updates for potato/tomato | Cucurbit downy mildew updates
late blight
Vegetable Crop Update – Sep 21, 2025
In This Issue: End of season crop production comments | Potato tuber heat necrosis and hollow heart | Late blight updates for potato/tomato | Cucurbit downy mildew updates | Pink eye of potato
Management of water molds and bacterial diseases of potato tubers in the post-harvest space
While every growing season typically offers a few weather hiccups, some years offer a few more extreme disruptions than typical. Extreme temperatures, in concert with moisture stress, exacerbate disease risk at the time of harvest and beyond.
Vegetable Crop Update – Sep 14, 2025
In This Issue: Disease forecasting updates for potato early blight and late blight | Cucurbit downy mildew updates | Post-harvest diseases of potato and their management
Vegetable Crop Update – Sep 7, 2025
In This Issue: Disease forecasting updates for potato early blight and late blight | Cucurbit downy mildew updates | Black dot and silver scurf of potato
Vegetable Crop Update – Aug 31, 2025
In This Issue: Vegetable production updates | Disease forecasting updates for potato early blight and late blight | Cucurbit downy mildew updates | Angular leaf spot of cucurbits
Vegetable Crop Update – Aug 24, 2025
In This Issue: Disease forecasting updates for potato early blight and late blight | Cucurbit downy mildew updates | Phytophthora crown and fruit rot in cucurbits and solanaceous crops | Corn earworm and its management | PVY and its management
Vegetable Crop Update – Aug 17, 2025
In This Issue: Disease forecasting updates for potato early blight and late blight | Cucurbit downy mildew updates | Tomato Septoria disease and management
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’