Brown Ring Patch Active in New England
Waitea is flaring in this cool wet weather pic.twitter.com/iddOxDTt0W — Brian Giblin (@giblin_brian) April 27, 2020
Evaluation Under Crop Recovery Curve
Evaluating area under the crop recovery curve. If you look at the lower right hand corner, healthy turf, one plot to the left is a nontreated check plot. Photo taken 4/22. #snowmould19 pic.twitter.com/0uRHvJwD2A — Henry Wetzel (@hcwetzel3) April 27, 2020
Mole Crickets and Chipco Choice
With less time these days for mole cricket ID, timing egg hatch, making multiple apps and waiting for the next full moon, Chipco Choice can help take this pest out of the equation. It’s one-time application has a yearlong guarantee! @BayerGolf #taketheguessworkout pic.twitter.com/5tFrwI2YzW — Zach Lane (@zlane14) April 24, 2020
Working from Home
Richard Buckley has worked in various states of solitude during his decades as the director of the Plant Diagnostic Lab and Nematode Detection Service at Rutgers University. Turn on some Grateful Dead and tune out the rest of the world. Since the university shut down its physical campuses earlier this month, though, he has worked […]
2019-2020 Snow Mold Fungicide Research Report
Below you will find the 2020 Snow Mold Fungicide Research Reports from the University of Wisconsin completed during the winter of 2019-2020. Research trials were held at 4 sites across the Midwest – Timber Ridge GC in Minocqua, WI; Wausau CC in Wausau, WI; Marquette CC in Marquette, MI; and the O.J. Noer Turfgrass Research […]
Episode 38: NRCS Soil Mapping
In this revived version of #TurfChat, Larry Stowell and Zach Bauer discuss some relevant soils-related problems and how mapping out a property’s soils using the NRCS website can help determine the cause.
Late Peak in ABW
This year has had the longest period between initial ABW emergence and peak that I can remember. Pittsburgh only accumulated 7-8 GDDs this week- but enough to put us in the low end of the range for an adult app before the weekend. pic.twitter.com/fC9phZ9uO4 — Ben McGraw, Ph.D. (@TurfEnto) April 20, 2020
USGA – West Update
Golf courses with bermudagrass fairways, whether overseeded or not, struggle to keep Poa annua at bay. Continued reliance on preemergence and postemergence herbicides has been shown to result in herbicide-resistant Poa annua plants. As an alternative to chemical control, golf courses in Arizona, southern Nevada and southern California have been using mechanical removal and seeing […]
USGA – Central Regional Update
Establishing turfgrass from seed in the spring certainly has its challenges. It is a race against time for the seedlings to mature enough to be able to withstand stressful summer conditions and to outcompete invading weeds. Although you cannot control the weather, there are options for suppressing weeds during seeding while also delivering nutrients to […]
USGA Update – Southeast Region
Superintendents across the Southeast are looking for ways to maintain their golf course with fewer staff members. Slowing flushes of warm-season turf growth with applications of trinexapac-ethyl – i.e., Primo MAXX® or post-patent products – is an important part of reducing mowing inputs and other labor costs. Getting the most out of these applications is […]