IPM Planning Guide now available

The IPM Planning Guide, which was recently launched on the GCSAA's Environmental Institute for Golf web site, represents the culmination of a multi–year, multi–institution collaboration that we are very proud to have been part of. The Guide includes all of the tools that turf managers need to develop a comprehensive integrated pest management plan -- from climate assessments, to spreadsheets for management planning and financial analysis, to guidelines for everything from soil and plant nutrition to pest management. The entire Guide is available, free of charge, to all turf managers, whether they are GCSAA members or not.

Whether you are developing your very first IPM plan, or are refining a plan that has been in use for years, the IPM Planning Guide makes it easier, and dare we say more fun, to bring your IPM programs to the next level. For more information, see also the July, 2010 Golf Course Management article, "Bringing IPM to the next level". We will also be teaching a half–day seminar that revolves around the Planning Guide, "Tools for managing economic challenges: the IPM planning guide and precision turf management", at the Orlando GCSAA Education Conference (February 8, 2011), and will be giving a GCSAA webinar on the topic, "Making the most of your IPM plan", on November 18, 2010.