Tuesday 20th May 2025

Potato research and the current crop were the topics of a University of Wisconsin field demonstration day Thursday.

Amanda Gevens is a potato & vegetable disease researcher for the University of Wisconsin and the state’s growers.  She tells Brownfield the one good thing about a drier than normal June is fewer instances of potato disease. “Relatively few disease calls in the crop but we have seen some. We’ve seen some black leg around around the state.

   

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