In this issue: Potato and vegetable disease forecasting updates – thresholds met for late blight and early blight treatments. Cucurbit downy mildew. Corn Earworm, Cucumber Beetles, Colorado Potato Beetles updates and management.
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Update 8 – Jul 7, 2024
In This Issue: Potato and vegetable disease forecasting updates – thresholds met for late blight and early blight treatments. Cucurbit downy mildew. Tomato bacterial spot. Imported Cabbageworm, WI DATCP Pest Surveillance resources, Corn Earworm, Western Beet Cutworm management and updates.
Update 7 – Jun 30, 2024
In This Issue: Updates in potato and vegetable production research. Potato and vegetable disease forecasting updates – thresholds met for preventative applications of fungicides for early blight and late blight in some WI locations. Cucurbit downy mildew. Diamondback moth, Potato leafhopper, Japanese beetle, Asiatic garden beetle descriptions and management.
High risk of potato volunteers due to warm overwinter soil temperatures
Due to a combination of a warm 2023-2024 winter season, and a heavy snowpack during the few weeks when air temperatures did drop into the single digits, soil temperatures in central Wisconsin may not have …
Update 19 – Oct 1, 2023
In This Issue: Potato and tomato early blight and late blight disease updates Cucurbit downy mildew updates Amanda Gevens, Chair, Professor & Extension Vegetable Pathologist, UW-Madison, Dept. of Plant Pathology, 608-575-3029, Email: gevens@wisc.edu Please …
Update 18 – Sep 17, 2023
In This Issue: Potato and tomato early blight and late blight disease updates Cucurbit downy mildew updates Yi Wang, Associate Professor & Extension Potato and Vegetable Production Specialist, UW-Madison, Dept. of Plant and Agroecosystem …
Update 17 – Sep 10, 2023
In This Issue: Potato and tomato early blight and late blight disease updates Cucurbit downy mildew updates Amanda Gevens, Chair, Professor & Extension Vegetable Pathologist, UW-Madison, Dept. of Plant Pathology, 608-575-3029, Email: gevens@wisc.edu Early …
Update 16 – Sep 3, 2023
In This Issue: Potato and tomato early blight and late blight disease updates Cucurbit downy mildew updates Colonizing aphids Potato harvest and storage updates Amanda Gevens, Chair, Professor & Extension Vegetable Pathologist, UW-Madison, Dept. …
Update 15 – Aug 27, 2023
In This Issue: Potato and tomato early blight and late blight disease updates Cucurbit downy mildew updates New vegetable disease fact sheets Amanda Gevens, Chair, Professor & Extension Vegetable Pathologist, UW-Madison, Dept. of Plant …
Update 14 – Aug 20, 2023
In This Issue: Potato crop production updates, Snap bean production updates, Potato and tomato early blight and late blight disease updates, Cucurbit downy mildew updates