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
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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 […]
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.
Ascochyta Leaf Blight – Uncommon & Sometimes Devastating
Asco what?! That’s the immediate response I get from turfgrass managers when I tell them I just diagnosed their damaged tall fescue sample as Ascochyta leaf blight. Even though we don’t see this disease with the same frequency as brown patch, Pythium blight, or gray leaf spot in tall fescue, it demands respect in the […]
48% of U.S. Courses Are Open to Play
NGF’s Latest Research on Coronavirus Facility Impacts National Golf Foundation Over the past several weeks, NGF’s research staff has been conducting nationwide telephone polls to objectively assess the impact of the coronavirus on golf course operations. The latest findings (as of the week ending April 12) show that approximately 48% of golf courses are currently […]
Now is the Time for Crabgrass Pre-emergence Apps in Michigan
We’re still in the optimum GDD application range for crabgrass preemergence applications here in mid-Michigan and soil temps like this morning should keep us there a while longer.pic.twitter.com/4LliFnIaJ9— Kevin W. Frank (@MSUTurf) April 15, 2020
Red Thread in Kentucky
From what I am seeing, & hearing, I believe red thread is starting to become a larger problem than in the past, at least in KY. Areas with sufficient N, like this that received 2 lbs N in the fall, are still having noticeable occurrences. Used to just be something I rarely saw. pic.twitter.com/SGbwVmgAsL— Kenneth […]
Goodbye Poa annua, Hello Bentgrass
Go inside an Ohio golf club’s decision to transition greens and fairways from Poa to bentgrass and the many components involved, from shade to PGRs to patience. Frank Dobie Throughout my 65 years on a golf course, I’ve frequently heard discussions regarding whether to manage Poa annua or to try to get rid of it. […]