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Video: Beware excess nitrogen in warm weather

Organic fertilizers are supposed to release nitrogen slowly and safely. But sometimes,...

Photo of the week: Avoid turf damage with the stress index

The stress index feature on your PACE Turf Weather Update indicates the risk to...

Avoid scalping with Proxy

Proxy (ethephon) has been a very useful tool for suppression of poa seedheads, especially...

Resources for managing summer stress

As the weather begins to heat up, here are some useful tools, references, educational...

Photo of the week: seedcorn beetle

The seedcorn beetle, Stenolophus, is a sometime pest of corn, but is usually viewed as a...

Help for ID of insects and weeds

For help in identifying the symptoms caused by key insect and disease pests of turf, we...

Video: Brown ring patch in late spring

Brown ring patch (Waitea) has been showing up in many locations across the U.S. in the...

Growth potential concept spreads around the globe

We developed the growth potential concept in 2004 to explain myriad of ways in which...

Photo of the week: white leaf on kikuyugrass

White leaf causes bleaching of affected foliage, and can result in slow and gradual death...

Video: Moss control

See the video, "Research on moss control" here. Controlling silvery thread moss, Bryum...

Earthworm problems widespread

Areas with high rainfall in the past few weeks are suffering from earthworm problems. The...

Moss survives 400 years in Canadian Arctic

For those of you experimenting with cultural practices for moss control, here’s one...

Where to send suspected white leaf samples

Symptoms of white leaf disease have been reported for most turf types, including poa,...

Photo of the week: avoid the polka–dot effect

Avoid the dreaded polka–dot effect, which usually appears after aerification, and is a...

Videos: Invaluable tools for soil salinity monitoring

As the spring progresses into summer and irrigation begins to provide the bulk of the...

Reference on monitoring soil salinity

If you rely heavily on irrigation for a good portion of the year, then it is important...

Avoiding Memorial Day disasters

Holidays that fall over the weekend can sometimes lead to turfgrass disasters. Crews that...

Gray leaf spot season begins

Dr. Phil Harmon of the University of Florida reports this week that gray leaf spot has...

Documenting abnormal weather, and its impact on turf

As we have already noted, this has been an abnormally cold spring in parts of the Eastern...

Photo of the week: White leaf

There was lots of discussion in the social media this past week on a strange turf problem...

What’s going on with bentgrass in the northeast?

We received these useful insights from turf scientist Steve McDonald, of Turf Disease...

Photo of the week: brown ring patch

Brown ring patch, caused by Waitea circinata var. circinata, will produce mycelial growth...

Golf economic study now available

Interested in how golf stacks up to other industries in terms of its contribution to the...

Video: Wireworms

In this video, we show you how to identify wireworms and their damage. In addition, we...

PACE Turf References

Got a question on anything from anthracnose to zebra mussels? Remember the Reference...

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