For a potato farmer, there are few moments as discouraging as a run-in with the potato cyst nematode, which causes yellowing leaves and stunted spuds to be covered in legions. The pest has been ...

Summer gardening means fresh homegrown vegetables like tomatoes, zucchini, potatoes and cucumbers. Growing your own vegetables unfortunately also means dealing with the inevitable common garden pests.

Three common vegetable garden pests Published: Aug. 14, 2009, 9:21 a.m. By The Oregonian/OregonLive René Eisenbart/The Oregonian Corn earworm ...

The annual Miller Research Potato Pest Management Field Day is slated from 9 a.m. to noon Aug. 20 at the company’s main ...

The most common is black rot, which results in circular, dark depressions on tubers. To control the disease, discard infected potatoes, and cure the undamaged roots from the same crop carefully.

The pest: These beetles are very small (1/16 th to 1/18 th of an inch long) and have large back legs for jumping. Different varieties are black, bronze, blue, brown or metallic gray.