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Connect with the BASF turf team via our streamlined Twitter page to get news, tips and updates from the field on turf maintenance. Follow us here.

Join the conversation and tweet us questions or comments about pest issues and events in your region.

BASF YouTube Channel now a video resource for turf professionals

The new BASF Turf Talk YouTube Channel compiles job-enhancing footage for time-constrained turf pros. Tune in and virtually attend pest control presentations from university and BASF experts and catch up with the BASF sales team with their video updates.

Videos will cover:
- Chemical and cultural controls for turf disease
- Identifying and controlling pests
- Regional turf issue updates
- Coverage of industry events
- University research and BASF trial updates
- Information on new products

We encourage you to view, rate and comment on what you see.

Earn GCSAA credit for the Nov. 4, 2009, Webinar: ‘Understanding the Chemical Registration Process’
Register now for the TurfNet University webinar featuring Toni Bucci, Ph.D., BASF Professional Turf & Ornamentals business manager, at 2:30 p.m. EST on Nov. 4, 2009.

Dr. Bucci will discuss how state and federal laws influence the chemical registration process and ultimately product availability. Her presentation includes discussion of federal regulations such as the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act, the Food Quality Protection Act and Pesticide Registration Improvement Act, and how public and political pressures can influence the chemical registration process.

WEBINAR DETAILS:

• Presenter: Toni Bucci, Ph.D., BASF Business Manager
• Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2009
• Time: 2:30-3:30 p.m. EST
• Registration: CLICK HERE
• Cost: Free to TurfNet members and staff (coupon required: CLICK HERE). $25 for non-members (credit card required). Pre-registration encouraged.
• GCSAA Education Points: approved for .1 point

Note — Webinar will also be available online after Nov. 4
If you are unable to attend the live Nov. 4th webinar broadcast, visit TurfNet University’s ‘Webinar Archives’ page here to learn about the chemical registration process and earn the education credits at your convenience.

BASF Professional Turf & Ornamentals is now offering new, larger packaging options for two key products. Pendulum® AquaCap™ herbicide is available for a limited time in a 110-gallon drum and Insignia® fungicide is now available in a 36-pound drum.

The Pendulum AquaCap 110-gallon drum is only available during the BASF Early Order Program dates, which began Oct. 1 and will end on Dec. 11, 2009.

Click here to download the EOP order form.

The 36-pound Insignia fungicide drum can be purchased with greater cost savings during the BASF Early Order Program and the new size will be offered year-round.

Pendulum AquaCap herbicide offers preemergent weed control of more than 40 broadleaf and grassy weeds and is labeled for use on golf courses, residential and commercial lawn and landscape areas, field and container nurseries, sod farms, athletic fields, Christmas trees and other forest tree nurseries and non-cropland areas.

Broad-spectrum Insignia fungicide is labeled for use on golf course, residential, commercial and industrial turf, sod farms, recreational areas and cemeteries, commercial greenhouses, shadehouses, lath houses, outdoor container or field-grown nurseries and other similarly maintained areas.

Learn more about this announcement here.

BASF launches new Honor™ fungicide and Tower® herbicide
BASF Professional Turf & Ornamentals today announced its launch of Honor™ fungicide, a combination of two industry-leading active ingredients, and Tower® herbicide, which features dimethenamid-P, a new active ingredient for the turf market. Both products give golf course superintendents broad-spectrum control to help them optimize applications.

Golf course superintendents can benefit from additional savings up to 8 percent through the BASF Early Order program, on now through Dec. 11, 2009. Click here to download a PDF order form.

Honor fungicide combines boscalid, the active ingredient in Emerald® fungicide, and pyraclostrobin, the active ingredient in Insignia® fungicide. Ideal for greens, tees and fairways, Honor’s two modes of action deliver playability to greens and control of diseases, including patch diseases, anthracnose, dollar spot and leaf spot.

Tower herbicide provides preemergent control of more than 50 small-seeded grassy and broadleaf weeds and sedges including goosegrass and yellow nutsedge. Tower can be applied to cool- and warm-season turfgrass on tees, fairways, roughs and other amenity turfgrass around common areas on the golf course. Tower is also labeled for use on residential and commercial ornamental landscape and grounds maintenance. For added weed control, Tower is an ideal tank-mix partner with Pendulum® AquaCap™ herbicide.

Learn more about this announcement here.