Research

Nitrogen fertility, mowing height and topdressing effects on anthracnose

February 18, 2015 By Grant Gannon

Anthracnose on annual bluegrass (Poa annua) greens, caused by Colletotrichum cereale Manns, can be suppressed by increasing nitrogen fertility, mowing height and sand topdressing. Effects of these practices on disease severity and ball roll remain unknown. A three-year field trial ...

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Don’t fall behind in annual bluegrass weevil management

February 18, 2015 By Ben McGraw, Ph.D.

The annual bluegrass weevil (ABW) or “Hyperodes weevil” (Listronotus maculicollis, formerly Hyperodes maculicollis) is a severe problem on many golf courses in the northeastern and mid-Atlantic United States and eastern Canada. ABW is intensely managed with insecticides to prevent larval ...

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Bringing precision to topdressing

February 18, 2015 By Clark Throssell, Ph.D.

Scott Kinkead is executive vice president of Turfco Manufacturing Inc., and has worked in the golf course industry his entire career. Kinkead is active in all aspects of the company and enjoys bringing new technology to Turfco’s products. Scott can ...

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The Andersons’ Humic DG now available in Canada

February 11, 2015 By Joelle Harms

The Andersons Turf & Specialty Group’s Humic DG is now available to customers in the Canadian turf, agriculture and horticulture markets. Listed as a registered supplement by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Humic DG is a dispersing granule product that ...

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The 2015 Golfdom Report

January 22, 2015 By Seth Jones and Grant Gannon

From big expectations for the new year to disappointment with the current assistant superintendent pool, here’s how readers see the state of the industry. This is the year, it seems. The year the economy starts to really bounce back, the year golf’s ...

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SNAGing more golfers

January 22, 2015 By Ira Tiffany

How SNAG Golf and SNAG Futbol plan to get more kids in the game. One of my favorite old sayings is, “Be careful what you wish for.” It conjures up all sorts of ideas when applied to golf. We all ...

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