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PACE Turf Updates

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PACE Turf Update Titles

What you see is not necessarily what you get: check your irrigation system output to avoid drought

Wednesday, June 16, 2021

We have already talked about drought-related problems that are due to poor irrigation distribution u...

Video: brown ring patch diagnosis

Wednesday, June 16, 2021

See how a brown ring patch (Waitea) attack is diagnosed in the field and in the lab in this video. ...

Video: Brown ring patch in late spring

Wednesday, June 16, 2021

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

Solving irrigation distribution problems

Wednesday, June 09, 2021

Turf damage results from under–irrigated turf more often than you might think; and one of the ...

Proactive irrigation to avoid drought stress

Wednesday, June 09, 2021

During the spring, we frequently encounter short bursts of abnormally warm, sunny and dry weather - ...

A reminder on backing up

Wednesday, June 09, 2021

Disk failures are not a common affair for us at PACE Turf, but every few years, we encounter a disk ...

Tools for soil salinity monitoring

Wednesday, June 02, 2021

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

Soil salinity and TDR

Wednesday, June 02, 2021

Many superintendents have adopted the use of time-domain reflectrometry (TDR e.g. Field Scout TDR300...

Salinity measurements: deciphering milligrams, decisiemens, millimhos and more

Wednesday, June 02, 2021

If you are confused about the many different ways that salt concentrations (salinity) in water and s...

Memorial Day Remembrance

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

In honor of our military service people. We owe them so very much. Video: Memorial Day Remembrance...

Reference on heat and drought recovery

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Hopefully, you won't need our newest reference on Heat and drought recovery this summer. But jus...

Heat Kills: Summertime and Turf Stress Club House Edition

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Once air temperatures hit the 90s, turfgrasses begin their yearly struggle with the ravages of heat:...

Easy tool for monitoring water use

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Most turf managers are expected to create, and to follow financial budgets each year. But water budg...

Water conservation strategies

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

This Update was supposed to go out last week, due to a minor date error, Larry's fault, it was d...

Dusting vs. topdressing

Tuesday, May 18, 2021

We have yet another example, thanks to PACE member Brian Darrock formerly from Fairbanks Ranch ...

Silica Sand: The Ultimate Inorganic Soil Amendment?

Tuesday, May 18, 2021

The PACE Insights below from 1997 continues to correctly illustrate the benefits of sand topdre...

Video: Sand quality control

Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Selecting the right sand for use in greens rootzones or for topdressing and aerification will positi...

Manganese and take-all patch

Thursday, May 13, 2021

PACE Turf has adjusted guidelines for manganese availability to suppress take-all patch caused by Ga...

Cultural control of summer patch

Thursday, May 13, 2021

We have been promoting the use of manganese for suppression of ectotrophic root infecting fungi such...

MLSN for micronutrients

Wednesday, May 12, 2021

MLSN (Minimum Levels for Sustainable Nutrition) methods provide a revolutionary way to interpret soi...

Ascernity registered in California

Thursday, May 06, 2021

We don't see a lot of new products receiving registration for use in turfgrass management in Cal...

Leach before or after?

Thursday, May 06, 2021

In a normal rainfall year, we would not post this notice to leach greens prior to aeration. However,...

Aerifying? Watch out for microdochium patch

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

This week should mark the end of the microdochium patch threat in the northern hemisphere. If you ar...

Phosphites and microdochium patch

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Phosphite-based fungicides and fertilizers are known to suppress microdochium patch in additon to ot...

Effect of rolling on microdochium patch

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Lightweight rolling has been shown to improve putting green quality, prevent scalping and to suppres...

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