CucCAP Vegetable Extension Specialist, Jonathan Schultheis from NC State will host the Pickling Cucumber Session on Friday morning. Kim D’Arcangelo, Mike Adams and Lina Quesada-Ocampo will present Recent Advances in Management of Cucurbit Downy Mildew in Picking Cucumber and Cucurbit Crops.

CucCAP Extension Plant Pathologist, Lina Quesada-Ocampo will host vegetable disease management sessions on Friday morning and afternoon. On Friday afternoon, Kim D’Arcangelo, from the Quesada Lab at NC State will present New Options for Management of Powdery Mildew on Cucurbit Crops. Hunter Collins, Mike Adams and Lina Quesada Ocampo will present Cultural and Chemical Control of Watermelon Fusarium Wilt.

In the Saturday morning Cucurbit Crops session, Jonathan Schultheis & Keith Starke from NC State will present Review of the Newest Summer Squash Cultivars.