Taming Turf Disease
The talk turns to climate change, specifically global warming, and its impact on potential new turfgrass diseases. Could new maladies be on the horizon, the result of the planet getting a fever? Joe...
View ArticleFerence Insecticide and Secure Fungicide Now Registered to Tackle Turf Pests...
Ference insecticide and Secure fungicide from Syngenta are now registered for sale in the state of New York. Golf course superintendents and industry professionals in most counties within New York can...
View ArticleVelista Fungicide Now Registered in California
Golf course superintendents in California now have access to Velista, a solution for controlling key turf diseases – anthracnose, fairy ring and rapid blight – and others. It is ideal for cleaning up...
View ArticleTKI Recalls ArmorTech ALT 70 and Viceroy 70DF Fungicide Formulation
Update: TKI has extended its recall to all of its turf fungicide formulation product marketed under the brand names of ArmorTech ALT 70 and Viceroy 70DF. NovaSource, a business unit of Tessenderlo...
View ArticleMore Pesticide Restrictions May be on the Horizon
A White House task force recommended in a report that additional restrictions on pesticides may be needed to save honeybees and other pollinators crucial to agriculture that have been devastated over...
View ArticleBayer CropScience Launches Signature Xtra Stressgard Fungicide
Environmental Science, a division of Bayer CropScience LP, has officially launched Signature Xtra Stressgard – a formulation with new Stressgard Formulation Technology components and an optimized...
View ArticleAbiotic Stress Buster
We love listening to Dr. Tom Rufty speak on industry issues. He has tremendous passion for his livelihood. Rufty, incidentally, is the distinguished professor of environmental plant biology at North...
View ArticleTalking Fungicides
We asked representatives from pesticide manufacturing companies: Many golf course superintendents believe that climate change is real — whether it is cynical or caused by humans — and are concerned of...
View ArticleFuturistic Fungicides
In the smartphone/Wi-Fi/touchscreen/tablet/Bluetooth era, it’s tempting to think that technology requires a computer chip. But the folks in the labs, where new-and-improved chemical-control products...
View ArticlePinpoint Fungicide Approved for Use on the Course
Dollar spot is one of the top turfgrass disease threats on golf courses in the Midwest and Northeast. “And it’s not going away,” said Todd Hicks, a plant pathologist at The Ohio State University....
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