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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…]

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…]

Vegetable Alert: Late Blight on Potato

Alert Date: 5/23/12
Pest: Late Blight on potato
Location: Burlington County, NJ [Read more…]

White Rot on Garlic

Sabrina Tirpak, Senior Lab TechnicianPDL 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.

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