Bulletin number 8, 7/13 – 7/19
No late blight has been detected in Idaho to date. With hot dry weather across the region the risk of late blight this week remains low.
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Here you will find the latest news crop production in Idaho. This may include crop alerts on disease outbreaks or disease risk warnings.
Bulletin number 7, 7/9 – 7/15/20
No late blight has been detected in Idaho to date. With hot dry weather across the region the risk of late blight this week remains low.
Bulletin number 6, 7/1 – 7/8/2020
No late blight spores have been detected in Idaho yet. With cool and humid temperatures in the Rupert area last week the late blight risk remains moderate. However, with the hot dry weather now in the region the risk of late blight in the rest of the Snake River Valley is low.
Bulletin number 5, 6/22 – 7/1/20
Late blight has not yet been reported in Idaho. However, late blight risk is elevated across S Idaho with the current cool wet weather conditions.
Bulletin number 4, 6/15 -6/21/2020
This week conditions were more conducive to late blight across the snake river valley with cool cloudy weather. But late blight has not been reported in Idaho yet and no spores have been detected.
Bulletin number 3, 6/8 – 6/14/20
This week late blight was found in a home owners garden in western Washington state near Mt Vernon. Late blight has not yet been reported in Idaho.
Bulletin number 2, 6/11/20
Welcome to the weekly spore trapping bulletin. No spores of the 3 target pathogens have been detected in any of the spore traps this week and the risk level remains at green.
Bulletin number 1, 5/25 – 5/31/20
Welcome to the first spore trapping report for the 2020 growing season. As well as spore trapping data, this year we are also adding additional information collected from bucket traps for insects starting from next week.
Destroy Cull Potatoes Now!
Cull piles are an important reservoir of potato pathogens and must be destroyed in the spring to prevent them acting as a source of disease epidemics.