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Impact of Grass Species, Mowing Height, Nitrogen fertilization, and Plant Growth Regulators on Ball Lie
Consultancy - By Greencast (12 Jul 10 8:40)
The golf ball lie is critical to determining the playability of golf course fairways and roughs. - Read Article

Tech Notes Issue 10 Microdochium Patch
Consultancy - By Greencast (22 Jun 10 6:00)
Microdochium patch, also known as Fusarium Patch is active from late autumn through spring. The pathogen, Microdochium nivale is especially active on Poa annua in areas that are wet and shaded. - Read Article

What do Golfers (& Panelists) Value in Course Conditioning?
Golf - By Greencast (02 Jun 10 9:15)
As I write this article on the eve of The Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club, USA, mass media attention for the tournament has focused on Tiger Woods. - Read Article

Autumn & Winter Diseases
Consultancy - By Greencast (27 May 10 14:00)
With cool wet weather slowly beginning to move into some areas, it is a good time to look forward to some of the common diseases that can be expected to occur. - Read Article

Syngenta Business Management Change
Appointments - By Greencast (23 Apr 10 21:45)
After 5 years as the Business Manager Lawn and Garden Sam Hole has taken on a senior role within the Syngenta Australian Crop Protection business. - Read Article

Fall is a Time for Summer Stress Recovery
Consultancy - By Greencast (14 Apr 10 10:05)
Fall is a time for summer stress recovery and in the case of athletic fields a time to recover from wear injury. - Read Article

Drought Resistance and Its Component
Consultancy - By Greencast (12 Apr 10 8:55)
Severe moisture stress or drought causes negative effects on turfgrass growth and development. The major components of drought resistance are avoidance and tolerance. - Read Article

At pH Values Below 5.4 soil Aluminum Toxicity Potential Increases
Consultancy - By Greencast (31 Mar 10 6:00)
When soils are tooa cidic, aluminum that is locked up in clay minerals dissolves into the soil as toxic, electrically charged particles called ions, making it hard for most plants to grow. In fact, aluminum toxicity in acidic soils limitscrop/turf production in as much as half the world's arable land in Africa, Asia and South America. - Read Article

Strobilurin (QoI) Fungicides
Consultancy - By Greencast (16 Mar 10 6:05)
Strobilurin fungicides trace there origions to a fungal antibiotic produced by the pine cone fungus Strobilurus tenacellus. - Read Article

The Power of Hydrogen
Consultancy - By Greencast (12 Mar 10 10:00)
pH measures the acidity or alkalinity of a solution. More specifically it is the measure of the hydrogen ion (H+) concentration. - Read Article

Never Too Hot for Pythium Blight
Consultancy - By Greencast (09 Mar 10 16:00)
Pythium blight is a severe disease of many turfgrasses during the summer months. Cool season turfgrasses like creeping bentgrass are most susceptible but couchgrass and other warm season turfgrasses can also be infected under the proper environmental conditions. - Read Article

Impact of Grass Species, Mowing Height, Nitrogen fertilization, and Plant Growth Regulators on Ball Lie
Consultancy - By Greencast (21 Feb 10 10:00)
The golf ball lie is critical to determining the playability of golf course fairways and roughs. The common definition of golf ball lie is the amount of the golf ball that remains above the turfgrass canopy after the ball comes to rest. - Read Article

Warm Season Turfgrasses & Large Patch
Consultancy - By Greencast (26 Jan 10 8:00)
Large Patch is an early - mid spring disease of warm season turfgrasses. First reported on zoysiagrass, the disease was initially named Zoysia patch - Read Article

Irrigation methods for Managing Turf Sites High in Salt
Consultancy - By Greencast (18 Jan 10 6:00)
Maintaining turf on salt affected sites is one of the most difficult challenges a golf course superintendent or athletic field manager can face. - Read Article

The grass is greener... on the Sydney Harbour Bridge!
Industry News - By Greencast (17 Jan 10 20:00)
As the sun rose above Sydney on Sunday, 25th October, you could feel that spring was in the air. The birds were singing, the cows were mooing and the smell of freshly laid turf wafted through the atmosphere. - Read Article

Maintaining a Quality Practice Range Tee
Consultancy - By Greencast (11 Jan 10 6:00)
With spring soon to arrive maintaining a quality practice tee through the season is a difficult challenge. Factors like size of the hitting area, and the intensity of use factor in the success of maintaining the tee. A few suggestions for maintaining a tee through the year are provided below. - Read Article

Summer Pre-conditioning
Industry News - By Greencast (07 Jan 10 11:00)
Research has found that applications of cytokinin to the root system (Cytokinins are synthesized in the root tips and transported via xylem) alleviated leaf senescence and improve turf quality (Wang, et al., 2004). - Read Article

Need a Spring Lift?
Industry News - By Greencast (08 Dec 09 11:00)
Although this issue would bemore timely in early summer,the information is new and mightbe considered in this year’s managementprogram especially for sportsfields. The study reported here wasdone by Pam Sherratt, at The Ohio StateUniversity over the last few years…Note:keep in mind the dates reported reflectseasons in the northern Hemisphere. - Read Article

A first for turf – HEADWAY MAXX
Consultancy - By Greencast (03 Nov 09 21:00)
A revolutionary fungicide has been developed by Syngenta – and it is the only fungicide available on the market to control and prevent the four most problematic and costly diseases in turf. HEADWAY MAXX is registered for the control and prevention of importantly pythium, dollar spot, winter fusarium, brown patch, anthracnose, helminthosporium complex and others. - Read Article

Controlling Parramatta Grass
Consultancy - By Greencast (29 Oct 09 8:00)
Parramatta grass is one of the most evasive and difficult weeds to control on Australian and to a lesser extent on South African golf courses. Native to Africa, there are three main species of parramatta grass: Giant Parramatta grass (Sporobolus fertilis formerly S. indicus var major), a smaller species of Parramatta grass (S. africanus), and Giant Rats Tail grass (S. pyramidalis). - Read Article