Damage is generally low to moderate and tends to be most severe in older crops in their second or third harvest where foliage is dense and harvesting has damaged plants and help spread the pathogens. Scattered reports of late blight on potato have been received from several locations around Immokalee. To date, infection levels are reported to be low. Heavy dews coupled with foggy morning conditions may provide optimum conditions for the spread of this disease, but growers are reportedly keeping it in check. White mold is being widely reported on snap beans.
Incidence is generally low.
Early fall plantings of potatoes established under high soil moisture conditions and warm soil temperatures are developing moderate to high levels of black leg and rhizoctonia , which has the potential to seriously affect yeilds and tuber quality. Tomato yellow leaf curl virus incidence appears to be on the rise. Some newly planted fields are showing higher levels of diseased plants. Affected plants are being rogued-out upon identification. In these cases, there appears to be some correlation with the geographical source of the diseased plants.