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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 – Jul 27, 2025

In this issue: Updates and management of Western bean cutworm and European corn borer insect pests in vegetables | Disease forecasting updates for potato early blight and late blight | Cucurbit downy mildew updates | Basil downy mildew confirmations and management recommendations

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 11 – July 30, 2023

In This Issue: Potato and tomato early blight and late blight disease updates Cucurbit downy mildew updates New insect pest: Asiatic garden beetle Western bean cut worm, tarnished plant bug, squash bugs on cucurbit crops   Amanda Gevens, Chair, Professor & Extension Vegetable Pathologist, UW-Madison, Dept. of Plant Pathology, 608-575-3029, Email:  gevens@wisc.edu, Lab Website: https://vegpath.plantpath.wisc.edu/ …