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2026 NC Watermelon Production Meeting

January 22, 2026

2026 Sweetpotato Production Meetings
Regional Sweetpotato Production Meetings

January 12, 2026

Cover photo of 2026 Southeastern U.S. Vegetable Crop Handbook
2026 Southeastern U.S. Vegetable Crop Handbook

January 9, 2026

Fresh market tomatoes
2026 Fungicide Guide for Tomatoes in North Carolina

November 25, 2025

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2025 Southeast Vegetable & Fruit Expo

September 25, 2025

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2025 Greenhouse Vegetable Growers Conference

September 19, 2025

North Carolina Sweetpotatoes Field Day — 9 October 2025, Clinton Research Station, Clinton NC
2025 NC Sweetpotato Field Day

September 19, 2025

Late blight on tomato fruit
Reports of Late Blight on Tomato in WNC (8/8/2025)

August 8, 2025

Cucumber downy mildew
Cucurbit Downy Mildew Found 7/30/2025 in Haywood County

July 30, 2025

Figure 1. Symptomatic concentric lesions on pepper fruits caused by Colletotrichum species.
Be on the Lookout for Pepper Anthracnose Caused by Colletotrichum Scovillei

June 12, 2025

Cucumber leaves showing yellow chlorotic spots and pronounced veining
Downy Mildew Confirmed on Cucumbers in Eastern North Carolina

June 11, 2025

Botrytis blight on petunia
Ornamental Growers: Interested in an Educational Conference in NC?

May 13, 2025

Fig. 1: gummy stem blight leaf spots on watermelon leaves and cotyledons (Photo: Erin Eure, NC State Extension)
Gummy Stem Blight Detected in Watermelon Transplants in North Carolina

May 2, 2025

Galls and bumps on a sweetpotato storage root caused by root-knot nematodes (particularly, the guava root-knot nematode, Meloidogyne enterolobii).
Nematicides New and Noteworthy: Label and Registration Updates for Nematicides in Sweetpotato

April 28, 2025

Soil sampling
NCDA Offers FREE Soil Testing & Services for WNC Through June 2025

March 27, 2025

2025 SE Veg Crop Handbook
2025 SE Vegetable Crop Handbook

March 17, 2025

Tomato flowers with bee
2025 North Carolina Fungicide Guides for Tomato and Pepper

February 17, 2025

watermelon growing on vine
Recording - Watermelon Production Meeting

January 9, 2025

tomatoes growing in a high tunnel with a woman pointing to them
WNC 2025 Winter Vegetable Conference Registration Is Open

December 16, 2024

Cucumber downy mildew symptoms
Cucumber Downy Mildew Found, Haywood County, August 13, 2024

August 13, 2024

Featured image: Cucumber leaf with downy mildew lesions and sporulation under a hand-held microscope for diagnosis (Photo credit: Lina Quesada)
Cucumber Downy Mildew Found in Sampson County in North Carolina

June 5, 2024

Botrytis blight on petunia
Fungicide Resistance in Botrytis: A Reminder for Floriculture Crop Producers

March 19, 2024

Credit: A. Dombrovsky, O. Batuman, Fidan et al. (2019) and Luria et al. (2017)
Virus-Infected Tomatoes May Be Prevalent at Grocery Stores

March 19, 2024

People kneeling next to freshly planted medicinal herbs in a forest farming setting
We Are Hiring! NC Alternative Crops & Organics Program

February 26, 2024

NC State Extension Mountain Horticulture Crops Research and Extension Center (MHCREC) research station helps growers in the North Carolina mountains
Extending Research to Growers in the North Carolina Mountains

February 20, 2024

Pumpkin with beetle, corn, tomato with hole, broccoli; text "MyIPM for Vegetables"
New Tool for Growers: MyIPM for Vegetables App

February 9, 2024

NC Cooperative Extension: Regional Sweetpotato Meetings — Feb 15 (Johnston) and Feb 22 (Wilson)
Regional Sweetpotato Production Meetings

January 29, 2024

tomatoes and green peppers displayed in baskets
Organic & Small-Farm Presentations at Winter Vegetable Conference-Asheville

January 23, 2024

high tunnels with rows of vegetables growing in front
New Programming at Winter Vegetable Conference in Asheville

January 18, 2024

Workers loading watermelons into a truck bed in a field during harvest
Recording of 2024 NC Watermelon Production Meeting

January 11, 2024

Tomato fruit
57th Annual Winter Vegetable Conference & Trade Show-February 19-20, 2025

December 1, 2023

Chinese medicinal herbs growing on a farm in western NC
Autumn Update on the NC Alternative Crops & Organics Program!

October 12, 2023

staked organic tomato field in western NC
Efficacy of Fungicides for Organic Tomato Production

October 11, 2023

Tomato fruit
Tomato Late Blight Found in Henderson County, NC (7 Aug 2023)

August 8, 2023

Cucumber downy mildew
Cucurbit Downy Mildew in Haywood County, July 28, 2023

July 28, 2023

Fresh market tomatoes
WNC Vegetable Growers: BOLO for Tomato Late Blight & Cucurbit Downy Mildew

July 21, 2023

field of certified organic cucurbits
Organic Food Sales Continue to Increase

May 17, 2023

Symptoms of ToBRFV on tomato fruit
Tomato Seed Recall for Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus

May 15, 2023

2022 NC Crop Protection School
2022 Crop Protection School: Emerging Threats

November 17, 2022

cover of new broccoli cooling bulletin
Cooling Methods for Broccoli

September 6, 2022

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