The Dog Days of Disease Pressure – Are you panting for relief or watching the green grass grow?

As the summer heats up, turfgrass can become stressed and more susceptible to disease.

• What disease pressure is your turf facing this summer?

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Hi, everyone—I want to share a great Web tool for researching and learning about turfgrass diseases.

North Carolina State University TurfFiles: http://www.turffiles.ncsu.edu/diseaseID

What’s nice about this site is you can select the type of turfgrass you have and the month, and it provides a list of diseases that affect the host turf during that time. Below is an example for anthracnose.

New turf pathology blog offers timely disease updates and tips from university experts
A group of young pathologists decided that online blogging was a great way to share turfgrass disease updates for golf courses in the various regions of the U.S.

Example entries from their blog, www.turfdiseases.blogspot.com, include when to apply preventative applications for fairy ring and take-all patch and how to tell the difference between brown ring and yellow patch.

Participating pathologists include Lane Tredway, Ph.D. from N.C. State, Megan Kennelly, Ph.D. from Kansas State, Jim Kerns, Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, Frank Wong, Ph.D. from the University of California – Riverside and John Kaminski, Ph.D. from Penn State.

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Technical Presentation by Todd Burkdoll, Senior Market Development Specialist for BASF Turf & Ornamentals

Listen to my tips for reading and following products labels in this 2009 Golf Industry Show presentation. I’ll walk through how to avoid wasting time and money when using pesticides on your golf course turf.

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Technical Presentation by Kathie Kalmowitz, Ph.D., Market Development Specialist for BASF Turf & Ornamentals
Did you know that Drive® XLR8 herbicide controls many broadleaf weeds, not just crabgrass! This could save your budget dollars. Let me show you Drive XLR8’s broadleaf weed control.

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