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
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 […]
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 […]
Many golf courses that I’ve communicated with recently indicate that they are operating with a much-reduced staff and are starting to feel pressure to either eliminate items from the budget or at least to only buy and apply what is absolutely necessary to maintain plant health. If you are faced with tough decisions and budget […]
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 […]
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 […]
A spectacular orange lawn. Rust on Kentucky bluegrass pic.twitter.com/15Km2gPCmK — Maggie Reiter (@maggie_reiter) April 13, 2020
Last year, the experts Lawn & Landscape interviewed about insects and pests almost uniformly said that a wet, warm winter made it unclear what problems LCOs would face over the spring and summer.Some things never change – experts say there’s no way of knowing for sure what will be this year’s prominent problems. But those […]
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some bermudagrass white leaf showing up in selections during the greenup period… pic.twitter.com/fZ33W8Q8nA — Mike Richardson (@ArkansasTurf) April 12, 2020