Fungicide combination products: decision-making tools
Are they a gimmick by manufacturers, or a great new tool for turf managers? A prescription for fungicide overuse, or a more effective approach that takes advantage of fungicide synergies? These are just some of the questions raised as superintendents try to decide whether a fungicide combination product is the best choice for them.
To help you decide if any given combination product is a good choice for your situation, we have developed two useful tools:
- This PACE Turf Reference on Fungicide Combination Products (364 KB pdf) lists the active ingredients, and their concentrations, in commonly available fungicide combination products.
- This Product active ingredient calculation spreadsheet automatically calculates the rate of each fungicide active ingredient delivered to turf for any product that you are interested in. Calculations are available in both metric and English units.
A message from PACE Turf owners, Dr. Wendy Gelernter and Dr. Larry Stowell:
We hope that we have kindled your interest in PACE Turf's information service with the information above. If you join today, you will have immediate access to weekly emailed updates, educational videos, site-specific weather and pest forecasts, state-of-the-art web site and many other services that will help you to prevent turf problems before they occur, save you time and money, and keep you current with the newest management products and practices. At $275 per year, or just $ 0.75 per day, it's a bargain that you can't afford not to take advantage of!
For more information, please take the tour of PACE Turf member services, visit our home page or read what other turf managers have to say about the benefits of membership. Please also feel free to contact us at any time. We look forward to working with you soon.
Announcing the PACE Turf eMembership
Based on input from members who want the convenience, money savings and environmental sustainability of an all-electronic membership, PACE Turf is happy to announce its new, paperless eMembership option.
eMembers will receive all of the benefits of regular membership in PACE Turf, but with all services, including publications (Highlights, Clubhouse Editions, Insights and References) available exclusively online or via email.
PACE Turf will also continue to offer regular memberships, at $325 per year. This membership includes all eMember benefits plus print versions of PACE publications (Clubhouse Editions, Highlights, Insights, References and an Archive notebook) mailed to your address.
Benefits of eMembership:
- Simplify your life: reduce paper, mail and office clutter by printing out publications only when you need them.
- Save money: at $275 per year, eMembers will enjoy a 15% cost savings over regular membership. Discounts for 10 or more memberships are available; please contact us at pace@paceturf.org or 858-272-9897 for more information
- Help the environment: it’s amazing how many resources a paper mailing can generate, including fuel for air and ground freight, paper, envelopes, ink and electricity for printing.
- Continue to have the answers at your fingertips with PACE Turf’s state-of-the-art web and email member services, including:
- Email services: weekly Updates keep you current with breaking news on practices, research, pests and products and Weather Alerts (emailed 3 times per week) provide up-to-date pest, turf and weather forecasts customized for your location
- Online Weather Services: The Weather Update page provides forecasts of weather, turf growth and pest occurrence, and is updated several times a day for your location. The Weather History page gives you detailed information on past weather conditions at your location.
- The online Photo Gallery's hundreds of photos can be used for rapid pest ID and illustration of new techniques
- The online Member Forum allows PACE Turf members from around the world to easily communicate about new ideas, practices and products.
- Online publications can be printed out when and where you need them. Clubhouse Editions are one-page publications designed to educate golfers on the science behind your management practices. Highlights summarize key events of the past month in a 4-page color publication. References are essential tools for turf management, with publications on soil, weather and pest management guidelines. Insights are publications that translate science into practice with in-depth analyses of turf agronomic topics.
- The online Archive gets you the answers fast with a searchable library of hundreds of PACE Turf publications, research reports and references.
Interested in eMembership? For new members, just check the eMembership box on the online membership form, or on the mail-in membership form. For renewing members, you will be given the option to switch to eMembership at the time of your next renewal.
Reclaimed water article published
An article summarizing over 10 years of PACE Turf's research on reclaimed water appears in the September, 2008 issue of Golf Course Industry. For more information on using and managing reclaimed water on golf course turf, see these PACE Turf publications:
- Agronomic guidelines: Irrigation water guidelines
- Super Journal article: Pennsylvania golf course water survey
- PACE Turf Update: Water blending spreadsheet (members only)
- PACE Turf Update: Impact of recycled water on IPM (members only)
- PACE Turf Update: New information on recycled water (members only)
