Video: High-performance weed control for turfgrass. Check out this two-minute video of Caddyshack-inspired Judge Fales and his club’s superintendent racing to find the secret behind a neighboring course’s weed-free fairways.

You may have just put down your preemergent herbicides, but you know you’ll have some breakthroughs this late spring and summer. The secret is Drive® XLR8 herbicide from BASF Professional Turf & Ornamentals. Drive XLR8 herbicide features a fast-acting, liquid quinclorac-based formulation. Rainfast in only 30 minutes, it delivers postemergent control of broadleaf and grassy weeds, eliminating hard-to-control weeds, including:

• Crabgrass
• Bindweed
• Clover
• Dandelion
• Dollarweed
• Foxtail
• Kikuyugrass
• Signalgrass
• Speedwell
• Torpedograss

Drive XLR8 herbicide even controls crabgrass in the mature – four tiller or more – stages. And Drive XLR8 provides outstanding residual control for up to 30 to 45 days with a single application.

Discover the secret and accelerate your weed control program. Click here to learn more about Drive XLR8 herbicide.

Interactive training module explains preemergent weed control benefits of Tower® herbicide

You’ve heard about it in publications like Golf Course Management, Golf Course Industry and Golfdom; now learn more about it online from your home or office.

Tower® herbicide with dimethenamid-P, a new active ingredient in turf, has been available to golf course superintendents since it went on sale on October 1. Learn more about the use of this powerful preemergent herbicide by taking the online training module here.

You will learn more about its uses, what to tank mix with Tower and tips for success for better control of troublesome grassy and broadleaf weeds all from BASF Professional Turf & Ornamentals.

Follow us on Twitter and tweet turf maintenance!

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.

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.