Pepper harvest has begun with very good fruit quality. Cabbage harvest continues with high quality for mid-summer harvest due to cooler temperatures. Diamondback moths in traps were down again this week to 30, down for the seventh week in a row. Other cabbage insects are present and heavy in fields with low IPM efforts. Rain totals over the area ranged from 3 to over 6 inches.
Commodities report Sweet corn harvest continues with no serious problems.
Rust can be found in most fields. Ear and stalk smut can be found in some fields. Cloudy, cooler conditions have delayed maturity by 5 to 7 days. The summer squash and zucchini harvest continues. Some early fields are showing virus symptoms, and cucumber mosaic virus has been identified.