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The Heat is On!
You “Beverly Hills Cop” fans will recognize that title from the soundtrack of the 1984 hit movie that Eddie Murphy starred in. This song also seems appropriate for much of the mid-west and southern plains, as the number of turfgrass samples coming in to the OSU Turfgrass Diagnostic Laboratory has increased over the last several weeks. Obviously, the spring and summer growing seasons are typical periods when diseases of various turfgrass species are of most concern. Currently, most of the samples arriving in the laboratory are cool-season turfgrass species (fescue and creeping bentgrass). Many of the submitted samples are suffering...
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Civitas, Nematodes, and Heat in the Southern Plains
As I mentioned the last time I posted, I promised to summarize some information that was presented at our Turfgrass Pest Management Field day held on June 15th in subsequent posts.So here goes… One of the fungicide trials that we toured during field day included several different fungicide formulations for control of dollar spot and brown patch on creeping bentgrass putting greens.In this particular trial we applied the newer fungicide Civitas + Harmonizer alongside other conventional fungicide products.As you may remember in previous posts here and here by Dr. Tredway, Civitas performed well for control of dollar spot and did...
dollar spot, brown patch, a bit of heat, and what do you do when you don't have a sprayer?
Hello, I am back in the US after an agriculture development trip to Tajikistan. If any of you are curious about that, you can check out this website where I have some notes and photos. The photo above is me with the Tajikistan-Afghanistan border mountains in the background.. . https://picasaweb.google.com/mmkennelly/TajikistanVisit2011?authkey=Gv1sRgCMvxxJn_moCCKg . .Anyway, back here on the home front dollar spot is active in putting greens and fairways. Though I have not seen it yet with my own eyes, I have had a few reports of brown patch activity as well. In addition, with some of the recent heat and wind...
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