Resources

Handouts and Other Materials


2026 Beet Summit - Cercospora Leaf Spot: Where We Are and What’s Next - CLS Update Slideset
Recent Cercospora leaf spot developments and management considerations.

2026 MSPA Meetings - Direct Tuber Testing Coring Experiments Handout
Summary of mechanical inoculation experiments to inform direct tuber testing research efforts.

2026 Field Crops Virtual Breakfast - IPM in Sugar Beets: Cercospora Management & More! - CLS Updates Slideset
Overview of Cercospora leaf spot risk and management updates for 2026.

2026 MPIC Variety Innovation and Advancement Meetings - MSU Manistee and Blackberry Handout
Postharvest screening for dry rot, pink rot, Pythium leak, and soft rot responses in Manistee and Blackberry varieties.

2026 WPC - Rot or Not? (and Other Potato Disease Issues) - Potato Disease Identification Slideset
2026 WPC - Rot or Not? (and Other Potato Disease Issues) - Potato Disease Identification Handout
Descriptions of potato diseases and defects, and look-a-like comparisons, from diagnostic samples in Michigan.


2025 MRC Potato Field Day - Early Blight and Late Blight Updates Handouts
Summary of chlorothalonil label changes impacting early and late blight management in potato. Includes lists of registered products for early and late blight control.

2025 MPIC Variety Innovation and Advancement Meetings - MSU Potato Variety Postharvest Disease Responses Handouts
Postharvest variety screening for dry rot, pink rot, Pythium leak, and soft rot responses 2024-2025.

2025 MSPA Meetings - Potato Virus Y Updates Handout
Summary of Potato virus Y research and updates 2024-2025.

2025 Beet Summit - CLS Symptoms and Management Slideset
Overview of atypical symptoms and Cercospora leaf spot management updates 2024-2025.

2025 WPC - Disease Monitoring and Management: In-field and Post-harvest - Potato Disease Updates Slideset
Late blight, early blight, and postharvest disease research and management updates 2024-2025.

 

2022 Beet Diagnostic Day - Spot the Spot Handout - Foliar Diseases
Photo descriptions and comparisons of different foliar diseases in sugar beet.

2022 Beet Diagnostic Day - Root out the Rot Handout - Root Rots
Photo descriptions and comparisons of different root rot diseases in sugar beet.

2022 Beet Diagnostic Day - Root out the Rot Handout - Seedling Diseases
Photo descriptions and comparisons of different seedling diseases in sugar beet.

 

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