Sustainability and MLSN guidelines: a presentation

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PACE Turf's Dr. Larry Stowell recently gave a presentation, "Minimum Levels for Sustainable Nutrition" at the Ontario Golf Superintendents Association meetings. The presentation gives a good overview of the many ways that the MLSN soil guidelines can contribute to more sustainable practices on the golf course.

See also these useful PACE Turf publications and turf management guidelines:

• Minimum Levels for Sustainable Nutrition Soil Guidelines (MLSN)
• The Global Soil Survey for Sustainable Turf, a citizen science intiative that involves turf managers in developing new, more sustainable fertilization guidelines for turf.
• Guidelines on pest management, soil management, water management and more.

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PACE Turf management videos

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We are proud of our growing list of PACE Turf videos. The index below will be updated as we add more videos so that you don't miss a single thrilling episode!

CHEMISTRY

• General: Avogadro, moles and valences
• pH: pH: An introduction
• pH:Measuring pH
• Potassium: Video Interview with the Experts: Dr. Micah Woods discusses potassium fertilization and soil test interpretation
• Sodium: Sodium accumulation

CULTURAL PRACTICES

• Cup Change Grain Problem
• Poa Toupee
• Against the Grain
• Monitoring for soil salinity
• Kikuyugrass aeration and topdressing
• Localized dry spot and root zone depth
• Failure of poa in greens surrounds
• Fall aeration triggers a disease outbreak
• Organic matters
• Organic fertilizer surprise
• GPS, GIS and sand pits
• Sand quality control
• Aeration: avoiding the polka dot effect
• Severe layering in a bentgrass green
• Traffic control

DISEASES

• Algae: Cyanobacteria, aka algae, on Tyee bentgrass
• Algae: Algae, blue green bacteria, cyanobacteria and yellow spot
• Anthracnose: Early spring anthracnose
• Anthracnose: Anthracnose control failure
• Bacterial wilt: Diagnosing bacterial wilt
• Bentgrass diseases: Summer patch on bentgrass
• Brown ring patch (Waitea): Brown ring patch in June
• Brown ring patch (Waitea): Brown ring patch diagnosis
• Dollar spot: Dollar spot diagnosis
• Fairy ring: Diagnosing fairy ring -- again (summer, 2010)
• Fairy ring: Identifying fairy ring symptoms
• Fairy ring: Fall fairy ring
• Gray leaf spot: Gray leaf spot diagnosis
• Gray leaf spot: Gray leaf on St. Augustingegrass
• Leaf blight: Leptosphaerulina leaf blight
• Microdochium patch (pink snow mold): Microdochium patch diagnosis
• Preparing and shipping diagnostic samples: Packaging turfgrass diagnostic samples
• Pythium: Diagnosing Pythium blight
• Pythium on bermudagrass, 2009: Autumn surprise (Pythium on bermudagrass)
• Pythium blight on bermudagrass, 2010: Autumn surprise (Pythium on bermudagrass);
• Rapid blight: Diagnosing rapid blight
• Rapid blight: Rapid blight can look like Microdochium patch (pink snow mold)
• Spring dead spot: Spring dead spot diagnosis
• Southern blight: Southern blight diagnosis
• Summer patch: Summer patch diagnosis
• Summer patch: Late-season summer patch
• General diseases: Mad tiller disease, rabbits and Southern blight

GOLFER EDUCATION

• Golfing on Dead Grass
• Golfer education on heat and turf damage
• Golfer education on frost delays
• Golfer education on aeration
• Golf: it's not just a game

THE INDUSTRY

• Demographics of the golf course superintendent

INSECTS

• Billbugs: Identifying billbug damage
• Billbugs: Billbugs in sod, the gift that keeps giving
• Root Mealybugs
• White grubs: What makes a grub a grub?
• White grubs: Sampling for white grubs
• Wireworms

NEMATODES

• A search for the source of nematode damage
• Free living nematodes
• Root knot nematode
• Putting out a biorational nematicide trial
• Root knot nematode on bentgrass

SOILS

• Soil amendments: Gypsum vs. calcium sulfate anhydrite
• Soil amendments: Quick test for gypsum products
• Compaction: Compaction relief with deep tine aeration
• MLSN Guidelines: Minimum levels for sustainable nutrition: the calcium guideline
• MLSN Guidelines: Tales from the field—phosphorus, take all patch and MLSN

TOOLS

• Using drones as alternatives to aerial photography
• Knockout trials (doing your own research)
• Calibrating your EC meter
• Measuring soil moisture with Turf Guard vs. Spectrum TDR-300
• The iStimp arrives: for better or worse
• iStimp Field Evaluation
• Golf Course Sustainability Metrics
• Turf Covers at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club
• John Turnour on Turf Covers

WATER MANAGEMENT

• Dr. Leinauer on water conditions
• Bryozoans clogging irrigation systems: Unwelcome bryozoan guests

WEATHER

• Climate in Motion
• Heat and drought recovery
• Purple bentgrass and cool temperatures
• Using threat temperatures to prevent disease outbreaks
• Using degree days to time poa suppression applications
• Summer has arrived: Disease, insect and drought damage that results when hot weather arrives
• Wind can save the day
• Spring (2012) has sprung
• The role of sunshine in turfgrass health (Video interview with Dr. Micah Woods).
• Water use alert

WEEDS

• Poa annua: Iron, phosphorus and poa
• Poa annua: Extreme measures: poa control at Big Canyon Country Club
• Poa annua: Weather changes trigger poa color variation