Bayer launches Specticle plus Fertilizer

By |  October 23, 2013

Environmental Science, a division of Bayer CropScience LP, has launched Specticle plus Fertilizer – an innovative herbicide that provides warm-season turf managers up to eight months of residual control at low use rates. The company will feature Specticle plus Fertilizer at this week’s Green Industry & Equipment Expo (GIE+EXPO) in Louisville, Ky.
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“Specticle plus Fertilizer is an example of delivering innovation to meet the needs of green industry professionals and help them be more efficient,” said Jeff Michel, Bayer’s herbicide business manager. “It allows turf managers to achieve healthy, weed-free turf while simplifying operations, which translates to time and cost savings that help grow their bottom line.”

The characteristics of Specticle deliver excellent weed prevention and fertility. Specticle plus Fertilizer is available in two different concentrations and a variety of fertilizer blends to provide for increased flexibility that meets the needs of warm-season turfgrass professionals. Click here to view the use recommendations Bayer developed to provide golf and lawn care professionals with application information specific to their location within the continental U.S.

Specticle is a unique class of chemistry that offers an environmentally responsible solution and helps address weed resistance. Specticle plus Fertilizer delivers extended residual pre-emergent control of more than 75 broadleaf and grassy weeds, including annual bluegrass, goosegrass, crabgrass and annual sedge. Specticle plus Fertilizer helps streamline turf management practices and simplify application.

Learn more about Specticle plus Fertilizer by visiting the Bayer booth, #6030, at GIE+EXPO.

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Seth Jones, a 25-year veteran of the golf industry media, is Editor-in-Chief of Golfdom magazine and Athletic Turf. A graduate of the University of Kansas School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Jones began working for Golf Course Management in 1999 as an intern. In his professional career he has won numerous awards, including a Turf and Ornamental Communicators Association (TOCA) first place general feature writing award for his profile of World Golf Hall of Famer Greg Norman and a TOCA first place photography award for his work covering the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In his career, Jones has accumulated an impressive list of interviews, including such names as George H.W. Bush, Samuel L. Jackson, Lance Armstrong and Charles Barkley. Jones has also done in-depth interviews with such golfing luminaries as Norman, Gary Player, Nick Price and Lorena Ochoa, to name only a few. Jones is a member of both the Golf Writers Association of America and the Turf and Ornamental Communicators Association. Jones can be reached at sjones@northcoastmedia.net.


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