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July Heat! Summer Bent Decline, Peak Disease Pressure, 1st Fairy Ring and Brown Patch Research

July Heat! Summer Bent Decline, Peak Disease Pressure, 1st Fairy Ring and Brown Patch Research

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Jul 2

July 4th! Heat Stress, Summer Bentgrass Decline!?!, Red Leaf Spot and Divot Research

Summer has officially arrived! Yep, we’ve just experienced the warmest week of the 2026 season so far. Air temperature highs reached into…

July 4th! Heat Stress, Summer Bentgrass Decline!?!, Red Leaf Spot and Divot Research

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Jun 26

Heat Wave Forecasted! Peak Weed Pressure, Good Roots, Dollar Spot and Pollinator Week Research

Hindsight is 20/20. June was a good month of growing. Of everything! I’ve been identifying (and pulling) fast growing broadleaf weeds (a…

Heat Wave Forecasted! Peak Weed Pressure, Good Roots, Dollar Spot and Pollinator Week Research

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Jun 19

Mild Weather! Recovery, Yellow Nutsedge, ABW Pupae and White Clover Research

Following early cool-season turfgrass heat stress, with temperatures notching our first 90+ degree high, the third week of June brought a…

Mild Weather! Recovery, Yellow Nutsedge, ABW Pupae and White Clover Research

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Jun 12

Hot & Humid! Severe Thunderstorms, High Disease Pressure, 1st Waitea and Moss Research

June has brought a dramatic shift in weather for the upper Midwest. We are now sweating AND sprinting into summer. Outdoors we all feel it…

Hot & Humid! Severe Thunderstorms, High Disease Pressure, 1st Waitea and Moss Research

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Jun 5

June! Drought Begins, White Clover, NCERA-221 and Poa Seedhead Study

Summer is already here? Well it’s close, but it certainly has felt like it. Conditions have been exceptionally dry over the past week, with…

June! Drought Begins, White Clover, NCERA-221 and Poa Seedhead Study

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May 29

Ideal Conditions! Few Issues, Dollar Spot Begins, 1st Crabgrass and Native Forbs & Grasses Research

At the end of May, growers can reflect on spring conditions in 2026. It hasn’t gone exactly as we expected, but so far so good. A very wet…

Ideal Conditions! Few Issues, Dollar Spot Begins, 1st Crabgrass and Native Forbs & Grasses Research

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May 22

May Heat! Soil Temps Reach 60s, Prostrate Knotweed and Warm Season Turfgrass Research

May Heat! Soil Temps Reach 60s, Prostrate Knotweed and Warm Season Turfgrass Research

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May 15

Cold Temps! Drying Down, Dollar Spot?, 1st ABW Larvae and Nematode Research

It’s been a chilly May. As was forecast a week ago, we continued to experience a string of cooler than normal temperatures for most of the…

Cold Temps! Drying Down, Dollar Spot?, 1st ABW Larvae and Nematode Research

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May 8

May! Frost Injury?, Soil Temp 50s, ABW Adult Counts Fall, Mouse Ear Chickweed and Tenacity Research

Cold returns. Early May felt more like the wet, chilly conditions of April than the steady progression of spring. High temps fell to the…

May! Frost Injury?, Soil Temp 50s, ABW Adult Counts Fall, Mouse Ear Chickweed and Tenacity Research

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Written by Derek Settle, PhD & Shehbaz Singh, MS. Mission: Provide science-based turfgrass research and diagnostics to 400+ member golf courses/superintendents.

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