Tag: crabgrass

Dow AgroSciences Dimension specialty herbicide

February 11, 2016 By Golfdom Sponsor

Dimension® specialty herbicide is the leading turf and ornamental product for preemergence and early postemergence crabgrass control. Applied early or late in the season, Dimension eliminates the need to switch products after crabgrass has germinated. This longer window gives you ...

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FMC: Echelon herbicide

October 14, 2015 By Golfdom Staff

Echelon by FMC delivers preemergence performance against sedges with two active ingredients. A single sedge tuber can produce more than 1,900 shoots, and if left untreated sedges can grow twice as fast as desirable turf. Echelon controls weeds from the foliage down ...

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Bayer: Specticle FLO

August 27, 2015 By Golfdom Sponsor

Specticle® FLO is a versatile, pre-emergent herbicide that provides warm-season turfgrass managers with broad-spectrum control of most major weeds including Poa annua, crabgrass and goosegrass. It delivers superior protection against key grassy weeds plus more than 50 broadleaf weeds, and ...

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Hanging out with crabgrass: More than a weed

May 18, 2015 By Karl Danneberger, Ph.D.

Crabgrass is a ubiquitous weed of turf. Germination starts in January or February in the southern United States and it appears throughout the northern areas in spring as temperatures warm. But crabgrass is more than a weed we treat with ...

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Fall applied preemergence herbicides for crabgrass control in the North

October 22, 2014 By Zac Reicher, Ph.D.

Q: What are the benefits of a preemergence herbicide application in the fall for crabgrass control? The primary benefit is shifting work that is normally done in spring to fall. There is more time available to apply the preemergence herbicide ...

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Walking a mile in an intern’s shoes

June 25, 2014 By Golfdom Staff

Editor’s note: This is the second essay on preparing Pinehurst No. 2 for back-to-back Opens written by Carlos Sanes, one of the workers on the ground. When Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw completed the renovation of Pinehurst No. 2 they ...

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