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Last Frost! Video #1, Few Issues, A New Disease?, and Tall Fescue Tenacity Research

Our last week of April finished colder than we would have liked. With lows in the mid-30s some frost returned in the morning hours. Yep…

9 min read3 days ago

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Last Frost! Video #1, Few Issues, A New Disease?, and Tall Fescue Tenacity Research

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Soils Pass Mid 50s! Few Issues, Waitea Patch, and Dollar Spot Research

The third full week of April brought near ideal conditions for turfgrass growth on several days. The take home message here? Nothing better…

7 min readApr 19, 2024

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Soils Pass Mid 50s! Few Issues, Waitea Patch, and Dollar Spot Research

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Spring Returns! Soils Warm, Broadleaf Weeds go KaBoom, and Moss Research

With that first chilly week behind us, April feels more like April. Quickly signs of spring have appeared (soil temperatures have warmed)…

6 min readApr 12, 2024

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Spring Returns! Soils Warm, Broadleaf Weeds go KaBoom, and Moss Research

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Backward Spring Goes! Cold, April Showers, Yellow Patch and Tenacity Research

April showers bring May flowers? Maybe so, but in a week we actually saw periods of snowfall too. Because why not? The upper Midwest was…

7 min readApr 5, 2024

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Backward Spring Goes! Cold, April Showers, Yellow Patch and Tenacity Research

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Hello Spring! Mild Winter, Little Snow, Few Issues, and Bentgrass Variety Research

March 2024 was a bit of a teaser as far as a spring goes. It just means we were being told (and it felt like) it was going to be a warm one…

8 min readMar 29, 2024

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Hello Spring! Mild Winter, Little Snow, Few Issues, and Bentgrass Variety Research

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2023 CDGA Turfgrass Program Summary Report

Temperatures. For the second summer in a row, we did not see an excessively hot summer. High temperatures about 90 degrees were largely…

5 min readDec 13, 2023

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2023 CDGA Turfgrass Program Summary Report

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Cloudy & Wet! Take All Patch, Yellow Tuft, Dollar Spot Peaks and Moss Research

What a week! The first long stretch of cool, wet weather in the fall can be difficult to stomach. And it was. A good friend of mine (Randy…

6 min readSep 29, 2023

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Cloudy & Wet! Take All Patch, Yellow Tuft, Dollar Spot Peaks and Moss Research

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Cool & Wet! Sand Bunker Education, Melting Out, Yellow Tuft, Fairway Research

It is now clipping along. Fall season that is. Cool nights are a regular thing. Days are both shorter and darker (long periods of light…

6 min readSep 22, 2023

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Cool & Wet! Sand Bunker Education, Melting Out, Yellow Tuft, Fairway Research

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Fall! Education, ABW Again?!, 1st Grub Damage, Dollar Spot, Green Research

The most often said sentence of the week? “Fall is nice!” We are comfortably in a different season now. Here are some fall observations…

8 min readSep 15, 2023

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Fall! Education, ABW Again?!, 1st Grub Damage, Dollar Spot, Green Research

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September Cools! Significant Summer Weather, Cyanobacteria, Yellow Tuft, Tee Research

It felt like Labor Day Oven holiday weekend. And it was. And for many it was a good thing. A last minute time to enjoy a final summertime…

9 min readSep 8, 2023

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September Cools! Significant Summer Weather, Cyanobacteria, Yellow Tuft, Tee 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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