The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District and the Turfgrass Information Center have announced the availability of the Noer/ Milorganite Image Collection website. This collection, sometimes known as the "Noer slides," currently features almost 13,000 35-mm slide images shot by O. J. Noer, and later, Charlie Wilson, Jim Latham and others. The digital archive is searchable, may be browsed by year or location, and can be accessed at: http://noermmsd.lib.msu.edu.
Blame the polar vortex. "This is Mother Nature at its finest," Al Capitos said [last week]. Capitos was standing inside Purdue's Ross-Ade Stadium on a brown patch, near what is believed to be the 50-yard line. Hard to tell with the brown overpowering the green. The prolonged periods of subzero temperatures killed the Bermuda grass. Not just at Purdue. Other stadiums are seeing the same color, and it's not green.
The crazy spring weather [in Nebraska] has made reestablishing turf difficult following this year's winterkill. Spring started out cold and dry and then, as if someone flipped a switch, it's been hot, humid, and very wet. It created a very difficult environment to establish new grass.
Early detection and rapid pathogen identification is essential for turfgrass disease management. Click here to read about the TurfPathoCHIP and how it can assist turfgrass managers in successfully detecting turfgrass pathogens.
Over the past 5 years we have periodically published reports from some leading turfgrass researchers in the US on their current studies. Here is our latest update on such research projects.
Researchers from the University of Central Missouri and Purdue University have proven through two separate studies that using H2O Excel, an all-natural water conservation agent developed by Brookside Agra, significantly reduces the amount of water, energy and fertilizer needed to grow healthy turf.
With a patented fluid-flow technology, Flo-Pro uses a park or sports field irrigation system to apply liquid or water soluble wetting agents, fertilizers and soil amendments. Flo-Pro can also apply acid to help lower pH levels.
Based in the United Kingdom, Farmura Environmental supplies the European market with a range of turf products and has served as Aquatrols' principal distributor in the UK since the companies first formed a partnership in 2007.
Irrigation consultants Brian Vinchesi with Irrigation Consulting, Inc., in Pepperell, MA, and Brendan Lynch, with Lynch & Associates, LTD., in Annapolis, MD, were recently named ASIC Fellows at the American Society of Irrigation Consultants' annual conference in Portland, OR.
The Irrigation Association Board of Directors is pleased to announce that The Toro Company has upgraded to the highest level of IA membership: platinum.
