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Willie’s Wanderings

wpennington1 — Sun, 04 May 2008 20:40:59 +0000

I spent the entire week at FarmLinks with my teammate Robby Marionneaux. We hosted two great groups on Tuesday and Thursday—there was excellent participation of a great number of superintendents. We had a fantastic time!

Superintendents from The Cliffs are looking at ways to incorporate the BASF bentgrass program into one of the courses in upstate South Carolina. Waitea Patch was discussed as one of the diseases that has been seen on a couple of the courses in The Cliffs Communities.

Willie’s Wanderings

wpennington1 — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:46:03 +0000

I recently visited a course in the mountains that was treated with Insignia before aerification of greens a couple of weeks ago. The super is excited about what he saw. He believes he will be able to open a couple of weeks earlier due to this application.

I am finalizing plans for the FarmLinks visit during the week of April 28; upers from The Cliffs Communities courses will be our guests from Wednesday thru Friday of that week.

Until the next time.

Willie’s Wanderings

wpennington1 — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:51:29 +0000

South Carolina and North Carolina turf pathologists, Bruce and Lane, respectively, are doing a tremendous job in putting Insignia in the spotlight with Pythium volutum. BASF’s program at Clemson is getting thumbs up with all audiences. The tank mix of Emerald & Insignia is being explored by many of those who hear his talks. 516 may be a possibility, especially when the PH initiative is implemented.

However, several DSRs are having a difficult time distinguishing between R zeae and R solani. I’ve gotten several calls from them stating that Bruce is really hammering strobi’s on brown patch control. I will be sending a message to all distributors in the Carolinas stating that Bruce is correct in his assessment that the strobi’s are not the best alternatives for R zeae in warm season turfgrasses.