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
potato production
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 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 13, 2025
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
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
Update 16 – Sep 1, 2024
In This Issue: Potato production updates. Potato late blight and early blight updates. Cucurbit downy mildew updates.
Update 12 – Aug 4, 2024
In this issue: Potato production updates: stress from heat and high rainfall showing late-season effects. Potato colonizing aphids, Squash bugs in cucurbits, Western bean cutworm updates and management. Potato and vegetable disease forecasting updates – thresholds met for late blight and early blight treatments. Cucurbit downy mildew.
Update 6 – June 25, 2023
In this issue: Potato production updates: effects of high heat and low moisture, potato and tomato early blight and late blight disease updates, cucurbit downy mildew updates, squash vine borer, squash bug, onion thrips, Hancock Highlight Series: spotlighting agricultural research at the UW Hancock ARS with Natasha Paris
Update 4 – June 11, 2023
In This Issue: Potato production updates, Potato and vegetable disease model updates, Onion Botrytis, Colorado potato beetle, potato leafhopper, and seedcorn maggot updates