Yearly Archives: 2019
Potato Farms Partner with Conservation Group to Plant Pollinator Habitat
Insect pollinators will soon find more homes on potato and vegetable farms. About 20 acres of habitat for insect pollinators will be established in central and southwest Wisconsin this fall, thanks to a cost-matching agreement between four large potato farms and Sand County Foundation, a…
Vegetable Crop Update #24
Updates provided by Amanda J. Gevens, Associate Professor & Extension Vegetable Plant Pathologist, Interim Co-Director of Wisconsin Seed Potato Certification Program, UW-Madison, Dept. of Plant Pathology In this issue we address: new insect introductions in WI agriculture potato row spacing trial updates cucurbit downy mildew…
Vegetable Crop Update #23
Updates provided by Amanda J. Gevens, Associate Professor & Extension Vegetable Plant Pathologist, Interim Co-Director of Wisconsin Seed Potato Certification Program, UW-Madison, Dept. of Plant Pathology In this issue we address: Swede Midge first detections in WI Potato Soil Health national program updates Cucurbit downy…
Vegetable Crop Update #22
Updates provided by Amanda J. Gevens, Associate Professor & Extension Vegetable Plant Pathologist, Interim Co-Director of Wisconsin Seed Potato Certification Program, UW-Madison, Dept. of Plant Pathology In this issue I address the following topics: summary of vegetable disease this summer cucurbit downy mildew reports late…
Vegetable Crop Update #21
Updates provided by Amanda J. Gevens, Associate Professor & Extension Vegetable Plant Pathologist, Interim Co-Director of Wisconsin Seed Potato Certification Program, UW-Madison, Dept. of Plant Pathology In this issue we address: vegetable production updates: report on potato N study and remote sensing project cucurbit downy…
Vegetable Crop Update #20
Updates provided by Amanda J. Gevens, Associate Professor & Extension Vegetable Plant Pathologist, Interim Co-Director of Wisconsin Seed Potato Certification Program, UW-Madison, Dept. of Plant Pathology In this issue I address: cucurbit downy mildew (findings now in Dane and Vernon Counties) late blight in tomato…
Cucurbit Downy Mildew Update
Updates provided by Amanda J. Gevens, Associate Professor & Extension Vegetable Plant Pathologist, Interim Co-Director of Wisconsin Seed Potato Certification Program, UW-Madison, Dept. of Plant Pathology Dr. Brian Hudelson of our Plant Disease Diagnostic Lab confirmed downy mildew on cucumber yesterday from Vernon County WI.…
Vegetable Crop Update #19
Updates provided by Amanda J. Gevens, Associate Professor & Extension Vegetable Plant Pathologist, Interim Co-Director of Wisconsin Seed Potato Certification Program, UW-Madison, Dept. of Plant Pathology In this issue we address: vegetable production status updates cucurbit downy mildew updates (none in WI at this time)…
Vegetable Crop Update – Late Blight Update
Updates provided by Amanda J. Gevens, Associate Professor & Extension Vegetable Plant Pathologist, Interim Co-Director of Wisconsin Seed Potato Certification Program, UW-Madison, Dept. of Plant Pathology In follow up from yesterday, the tomato late blight sample from Monroe County has US 23 clonal lineage of…
Vegetable Crop Update – Late Blight
Updates provided by Amanda J. Gevens, Associate Professor & Extension Vegetable Plant Pathologist, Interim Co-Director of Wisconsin Seed Potato Certification Program, UW-Madison, Dept. of Plant Pathology Late blight was confirmed on tomato from the southern part of Monroe County on the Vernon County line today.…
