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Late Blight Update
Updates provided by Amanda J. Gevens, Chair, Associate Professor & Extension Specialist, UW-Madison, Dept. of Plant Pathology and Yi Wang, Assistant Professor & Extension Potato and Vegetable Production Specialist, UW-Madison, Dept. of Horticulture This afternoon, Aug. 10 2020, late blight was confirmed on potato in…
Vegetable Crop Update #19
Updates provided by Amanda J. Gevens, Chair, Associate Professor & Extension Specialist, UW-Madison, Dept. of Plant Pathology and Yi Wang, Assistant Professor & Extension Potato and Vegetable Production Specialist, UW-Madison, Dept. of Horticulture In this issue we address updates from N trials on potatoes, updates…
Vegetable Crop Update #18
Updates provided by Amanda J. Gevens, Chair, Associate Professor & Extension Specialist, UW-Madison, Dept. of Plant Pathology and Yi Wang, Assistant Professor & Extension Potato and Vegetable Production Specialist, UW-Madison, Dept. of Horticulture In this issue we address: updates from N potato trials at the…
Vegetable Crop Update #16
Updates provided by Amanda J. Gevens, Chair, Associate Professor & Extension Specialist, UW-Madison, Dept. of Plant Pathology In this issue we address: Updates from field and station research on N in potatoes, and N in irrigation water Potato and tomato late blight (DSVs and reports…
Vegetable Crop Update #15
Updates provided by Amanda J. Gevens, Chair, Associate Professor & Extension Specialist, UW-Madison, Dept. of Plant Pathology In this issue we address: updates on potato N studies DSV and PDay updates for late blight and early blight management in potato national late blight updates national…
Vegetable Crop Update #14
Updates provided by Amanda J. Gevens, Chair, Associate Professor & Extension Specialist, UW-Madison, Dept. of Plant Pathology In this issue I provide updates on DSVs and PDays for preventative management of late blight and early blight. We have had substantial increases in DSVs over the…
Vegetable Crop Update #13
Updates provided by Amanda J. Gevens, Chair, Associate Professor & Extension Specialist, UW-Madison, Dept. of Plant Pathology In this issue we address: Nitrate-N levels in groundwater DSVs and PDays for potato disease management Angular leaf spot in cucurbits Downy mildew in cucurbits Read full update.
Cucumber Downy Mildew Confirmed in SW Michigan
Updates provided by Amanda J. Gevens, Chair, Associate Professor & Extension Specialist, UW-Madison, Dept. of Plant Pathology Downy mildew has been confirmed in southwestern MI (Berrien County) on cucumber on June 22. Because of our favorable weather (hot, frequent rain, humid), it is recommended that…
Vegetable Crop Update #12
Updates provided by Amanda J. Gevens, Chair, Associate Professor & Extension Specialist, UW-Madison, Dept. of Plant Pathology In this issue we address: potato production updates and new horticultural resources PDay and DSV updates: thresholds of DSV 18 reached for Gr. Marsh, Hancock, and Plover –…
Vegetable Crop Update #11
Updates provided by Amanda J. Gevens, Chair, Associate Professor & Extension Specialist, UW-Madison, Dept. of Plant Pathology In this issue we address: potato production updates with links to new video reports introduction to water stewardship training tool potato DSVs and PDays (no thresholds met this…