Research

Photos courtesy of: Ben McGraw

Don’t fall behind in annual bluegrass weevil management

February 18, 2015 By
The annual bluegrass weevil (ABW) or “Hyperodes weevil” (Listronotus maculicollis, formerly Hyperodes maculicollis) is a severe problem on many golf courses in the northeastern and mid-Atlantic United States and eastern Canada. ABW is intensely managed with insecticides to prevent larval ...

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Bringing precision to topdressing

February 18, 2015 By
Scott Kinkead is executive vice president of Turfco Manufacturing Inc., and has worked in the golf course industry his entire career. Kinkead is active in all aspects of the company and enjoys bringing new technology to Turfco’s products. Scott can ...

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The Andersons’ Humic DG now available in Canada

February 11, 2015 By
The Andersons Turf & Specialty Group’s Humic DG is now available to customers in the Canadian turf, agriculture and horticulture markets. Listed as a registered supplement by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Humic DG is a dispersing granule product that ...

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The 2015 Golfdom Report

January 22, 2015 By and
From big expectations for the new year to disappointment with the current assistant superintendent pool, here’s how readers see the state of the industry. This is the year, it seems. The year the economy starts to really bounce back, the year golf’s ...

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SNAGing more golfers

January 22, 2015 By
How SNAG Golf and SNAG Futbol plan to get more kids in the game. One of my favorite old sayings is, “Be careful what you wish for.” It conjures up all sorts of ideas when applied to golf. We all ...

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Quantifying light needs for bermudagrass green establishment

January 22, 2015 By
In the past decade throughout the Southeast and transition zone, golf courses have been converting their greens to new ultradwarf bermudagrass cultivars. Whether the conversion is from creeping bentgrass or is replacing an older bermudagrass cultivar, a major constraint will ...

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