Welcome to the new potato report for 2012! As always, we will be tracking DSVs for Late blight development and calculating P-days for initiating the first early blight fungicide application. Remember the threshold for P-days is 300! Once 300 P-days is reached for your location early blight fungicide applications should be initiated.
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July 10, 2012 A.Wyenandt, W.Kline, and J.Ingerson-Mahar
Potato Disease Forecasting Report 7-10-12
June 23, 2012 Administrator
Vegetable Alert: Late Blight on Processing Tomato
Alert Date: 6/23/12
Pest: Late blight
Location: Late blight was confirmed on actively sporulating leaf lesions from an 70 acre processing tomato field outside of Elmer, NJ. All lesions were found on the upper most leaves in the canopy suggesting Late blight was carried in from an outside source. This is the second report of Late blight in NJ on potato or tomato this year. [Read more…]
May 30, 2012 Administrator
Vegetable Alert: Cucurbit Downy Mildew on Cucumber
Alert Date: 5/30/2012
Pest: Cucurbit downy mildew
Location: Cucurbit downy mildew has been confirmed on cucumber in areas near Swedesboro/Glassboro (Gloucester County). This is the first report of cucurbit downy mildew in the mid-Atlantic region this year. [Read more…]
May 23, 2012 Administrator
Vegetable Alert: Late Blight on Potato
Alert Date: 5/23/12
Pest: Late Blight on potato
Location: Burlington County, NJ [Read more…]
April 12, 2012 Jack Rabin
White Rot on Garlic
PDL Senior Lab Technician, Sabrina Tirpak, gives the definitive diagnosis when a central New Jersey grower of organic produce calls their county agent to report problems in a field of overwinter garlic.
