Tag: Super Science Intro

The Toro PrecisionSense provides an irrigation audit based on soil moisture, compaction, salinity, turf vigor, topography and slope. Photo: Mike Kenna

Mike Kenna, Ph.D., explores a new tool to help course maintenance and irrigation efficiency

December 15, 2024 By
Mike Kenna, Ph.D., takes a closer look at Toro's PrecisionSense Service tool. ...

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Vegetated littoral zones improve water quality and be attractive features. (Photo: Todd Lowe)

Mike Kenna, Ph.D., recaps a study determining best practices for protecting golf course ponds

October 16, 2024 By
Several studies involving a range of scales, from small-plot research to entire watersheds, yielded important results that minimize the extent to which applied pesticides and nutrients run into surface waters on golf courses. ...

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Researchers from Clemson University evaluate fungicides that reduce spring dead spot in fairway bermudagrass

September 25, 2024 By
In the fall of 2019, they initiated the study at Florence Country Club in Florence, S.C., on a bermudagrass fairway constructed on sandy loam soil. ...

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Mike Kenna, Ph.D., recaps a study evaluating how nitrogen and PGR combinations effect bentgrass

July 29, 2024 By
Ashton Franks, an M.S. student at Oklahoma State University, evaluated a 777 creeping bentgrass research putting green for the effects of nitrogen (N) rate and a mixture of three plant growth regulators (PGRs) on playability, turfgrass quality and dollar spot severity. ...

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Researchers test the limits of biological Pythium control

A research trial established in the summer of 2022 aimed to evaluate the impact of biological product applications on Pythium root rot. ...

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A closer look at dollar spot on bentgrass fairways

April 12, 2024 By
Kenna shares an overview of a study done by a UMD researcher who tested the way different fungicides manage dollar spot on Penncross creeping bentgrass. ...

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