Research

Quantifying light needs for bermudagrass green establishment

January 22, 2015 By
In the past decade throughout the Southeast and transition zone, golf courses have been converting their greens to new ultradwarf bermudagrass cultivars. Whether the conversion is from creeping bentgrass or is replacing an older bermudagrass cultivar, a major constraint will ...

Read More

Mistakes Happen: Part Dew

January 22, 2015 By
In the October Golfdom I wrote about several product application mistakes that superintendents potentially can make. These mistakes included an overdose of plant growth regulators, products used to correct said overdose, high rates of foliar fertilizer, and the dreaded issues ...

Read More

The turf routine: What defines healthy turf?

January 22, 2015 By
I was at the British Turf Management Exhibition (BTME) in Harrogate, England, a year or so ago when I listened to a speaker talk about the golf swing. He identified three distinct aspects of hitting a golf shot — the ...

Read More

Getting the most from a Primo application

January 22, 2015 By
Dean Mosdell, Ph.D., is a technical manager in the Western U.S. for Syngenta. He has more than 25 years of golf course research experience with plant growth regulators and makes numerous golf course visits every year on behalf of Syngenta ...

Read More

LebanonTurf to renew Emerald Isle Solutions product line

January 15, 2015 By
The Pennslyvania-based company, LebanonTurf, announced a plan to revitalize its Emerald Isle Solutions foliar fertilizer product line through the development of product updates centered on enhanced agronomic solutions for superintendents and an overall expansion of the sales and marketing strategy. ...

Read More

The “Lowe”– down on 2014

December 16, 2014 By
In keeping with the theme of this issue, which is “Year in Review” according to my official 2014 Golfdom Editorial Calendar, I decided to contact Todd Lowe, senior agronomist with the USGA Green Section, to ask him not only about ...

Read More
Previous
Next