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Carbon dioxide monitoring for improved turf health: new information

Under optimal conditions, carbon dioxide (CO2) makes up less than 2% of the gasses found in the soil...

Turfgrass Tissue Testing: Pros and Cons

Making sure that turf is receiving optimal nutrition is one the most important activities that turf ...

High Quality Fairways and Roughs vs. Low Quality Irrigation Water

Golf courses around the country are increasingly facing turf management problems brought about throu...

Anthracnose: prevention is the name of the game

During the summer of 2001, Poa annua greens across the country were hard-hit by anthracnose, a disea...

Nitrogen in Turfgrass Health and Stress

While nitrogen is critical for good turf health and growth, excessive levels in the soil can cause s...

The damaging effects of high soil pH: urban legend or reality?

Alkaline soils (pH above 7.0) are typically regarded as “problem soils” that require ame...

Shade and Turfgrass: Can They Peacefully Coexist?

There’s no way around it—shade and turfgrass health are usually not compatible.  Wh...

Overseeding Greens: Increasing the Odds for Success

Even the most carefully planned greens overseeding programs can be ambushed by unpredictable factors...

Negotiating Reclaimed Water Contracts: Agronomic Considerations

With increasing pressures to use reclaimed water on golf courses, superintendents are faced with a n...

Nematodes and turfgrass health

Plant parasitic nematodes are some of the most devastating and difficult to control pests in agricul...

Advances in Poa Seedhead Management

Despite some well-known weaknesses, Poa annua (annual bluegrass) is a resilient turf that is cultiva...

A Guide to Testing Products and Management Practices

Using some simple statistics is the final step in conducting a field experiment, and can sometime re...

A Guide to Testing Products and Management Practices

Properly designed tests can be invaluable in identifying the products and practices that are most us...

A Guide to Testing Products and Management Practices

Running your own testing program can help you to make technically sound decisions about which produc...

Dealing with Low Quality Irrigation Water: The Fairbanks Ranch Country Club Research Study

The movement to conserve water resources has led to increasing pressure on golf courses to utilize l...

Cyanobacteria (A.K.A. blue-green algae): WANTED for causing serious damage to turf

There are three widely shared misconceptions about the small, photosynthetic microbes that produce d...

Improving Disease Control

The recent commercial introduction of several new fungicide active ingredients (azoxystrobin, flutol...

To Overseed or not to Overseed:  It’s a Matter of “Degree”

Deciding whether overseeding is the right strategy for your golf course depends on an overwhelming n...

Selecting Bunker Sands: Between a Rock and a Hard Place?

Selecting a bunker sand sometimes seems like a no-win situation.  This is partly because some o...

Genetically Engineered Crops: The Problem or the Solution?

Genetic engineering is a tool that has the potential to dramatically change agriculture, and in so d...

PACE Turfgrass Research Institute 1999 Research Results

The PACE Turfgrass Research Institute (PTRI) completed 16 research projects (see page 4 for listing)...

Fairy Ring and Localized Dry Spot: New Management Approaches

Symptoms caused by the fairy ring complex of fungi include the formation of dark green rings and cir...

Gaeumannomyces (Gay-man-o-myces)

The fungus Gaeumannomyces graminis causes several diseases that attack the roots of cool- and warm-s...

Guidelines for Control of Poa annua, Plus an Update on the Redgum Lerp Psyllid

There are no miracle cures for control of annual bluegrass, one of the most troublesome and persiste...

Black Turfgrass Ataenius Management Programs for 1999

White grubs continue to be some of the most difficult turf insect pests to control due to their cryp...

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