Tag: University of Minnesota
Researchers at Texas A&M University, University of Minnesota and The Toro Co. are evaluating the adoption of currently available soil moisture sensor (SMS) and mapping technologies to see if golf course superintendents can make significant water and cost savings.
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The USGA and the University of Minnesota have announced a five-year research partnership to develop solutions to golf’s challenges.
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Peaks and Prairies GCSA members had the good fortune to listen to Brian Horgan, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, speak at their fall meeting. Horgan started the day with a presentation about heat stress on cool-season turfgrasses and ways to proactively
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Another day in the office Golfdom publisher Pat Roberts (right) was nowhere to be found last Friday. Where was he? Visiting Brent Palich, director of golf course operations at Mayfield Sand Ridge in Chardon, Ohio. Naturally. Volunteers welcome Conway, S.C.-based
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As economic and environmental pressures mount on superintendents to reduce inputs on their courses, turfgrass breeders have been working on developing grasses that require fewer inputs but still perform at acceptable levels. For the past nine years, the turfgrass breeding
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Eric Watkins, Ph.D., turfgrass scientist at the University of Minnesota, shows a group of scientists his prairie junegrass evaluation plots on the campus at the University of Minnesota. Prairie junegrass is a perennial, cool-season grass native to much of the
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