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New Locations in Columbia, Missouri, Columbus, Ohio, and Lebanon, Indiana
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Check Fungi at the Door in the Transition Zone
The Transition Zone is a challenging place to grow and maintain turfgrass, whether you are growing it in your lawn or on a golf course. However, as a Superintendent, perfection is expected. Ensuring fungal diseases are kept at bay is one way to help reach that perfection. In this blog, we explore two ways you can help ensure fungal diseases don’t keep your Transition Zone course from perfection this spring.
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Cost-Saving Tips for Fungicide Programs
Fungicides can be expensive. Use these cost-saving tips to save money on your fungicide program this season.
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Spotlight on Southeastern Michigan: Early Season Application Best Practices
There is a ton of information out there, but sometimes you just want information tailored to you. If you work on a course in Southeastern Michigan, check out these early season application best practices to keep your course on track for the season.
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Dithiopyr Vs Prodiamine
Every year, I am always asked which product is better to use as a pre-emergent for crabgrass in the spring, and my answer is always, "Well, it depends." There are several options, but it usually comes down to two: Dithiopyr, aka Dimension, and Prodiamine.
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Stop the Mess with Flight Control
Flight Control can be a very profitable service you can offer your clients.
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6 Points to Keep in Mind When Making a Crabgrass Pre-Emergent Application
As we all know, timing is crucial for crabgrass pre-emergent applications. We all try to apply our pre-emergent as close to the germination window as possible. In North Eastern Ohio, this can vary year to year and is strictly based on soil temperatures. Generally speaking, the 1st week of May is when we start to […]
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Interactive Sports Field Resource Guide
The latest sports field resource guide provides up-to-date product info, smart turf tips, and relevant guides. It’s also interactive, so you can go directly to our website in one click and learn even more. Download the Interactive Sports Field Resource Guide here.
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Employee Spotlight: Marcus Dean
Meet Marcus Dean, the newest sports turf sales representative in Kentucky and Tennessee, in our latest employee spotlight.
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Top 6 Reasons to Attend Winter Education Seminars
The long winter months are the perfect time to expand your knowledge of turf management through education seminars. But why should you take the time to go to? What's in it for you? Here are the top 6 reasons you should attend education seminars.
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Winter Injury On Landscape Ornamentals
Winter injury is a commonly overlooked issue when it comes to landscape maintenance, but it can be an all too common killer throughout the season. Some causes may include wind, snow, extreme temperatures, sun exposure, and low soil temps.
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Give Your Woody Ornamentals An Advantage Before The Growing Season
Now is a great time of year to be thinking about ornamental plant assessment. Deciduous woody ornamentals have little to no leaves present, which makes it easier to inspect the overall structure of the tree or shrub. To help with underlying insect issues that you may not be able to see, a dormant oil application […]
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Spring Poa annua Seedhead Suppression on Cool Season Turf
Proxy Growth Regulator has evolved to be the standard PGR for Poa annua seedhead suppression on cool season turf. The most effective Proxy program is to apply your 1st application (primer spray) in late fall, after final mowing or tank mixed with your preventative snow mold fungicide. This late fall application has proved to be effective and has dramatically improved seedhead suppression on greens and fairways the following spring.
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Mini Ring on Bermudagrass Greens
Mini Ring (Rhizoctonia Zea) on Bermudagrass greens can be a scary thing! Check out the FAQ to learn more.
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Beware of Gray Leaf Spot
Gray leaf spot is a fungal disease that attacks perennial ryegrass and tall fescue. Find out when to look for this disease and how to treat and prevent it.
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Prepare Your Facility for Winter
We all know that it’s important to winterize our irrigation systems in preparation for a cold winter, but did you know that there are other items at your facility that may need to be winterized too?
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Cracking the FRAC Code
When choosing fungicides, one needs to take into consideration the possibility of the fungus developing resistance to that particular fungicide. Paying attention to FRAC codes is a must when using fungicides in a program to make sure that you do not promote resistance in your turfgrass.
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Plan Now to Prevent Next Season’s Headaches
The season will be coming to a close for many, and this may make you feel anxious to put the events of the season behind you. But while you may like to take this time to unwind, now is the best time to evaluate this year's problems and search for solutions to prevent them from happening next year. Use this guide of what to plan now to avoid next season's headaches.
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5 Tips For Getting Your Lawn Ready For Bed
The days are getting shorter, the nights longer and the temperatures are falling. Before we know it, our lawn care season will be done. If you want healthy turf next spring, make sure your turf gets a great, well-deserved rest with these tips before winter sets in. Core Aeration During the warm months, turf becomes […]
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Winterkill Prevention
Winterkill is turf loss during the wintertime. Its damage can be found in cool season areas, warm season areas or the transition zone and there are several conditions that cause winterkill: crown hydration, winter desiccation, low-temperature kill, ice sheets, and snow mold. With this in mind, let’s take a look at how to help prevent some causes of winterkill before winter even starts.
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Late Season Mowing Tips
As the fall begins fading into early winter, we want to start planning our end-of-the-year mowing schedule.
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Late Fall Soil Surfactant Applications
While most turfgrass managers stop applications of soil surfactants on fine turfgrass areas soon after the summer stress periods end, there are many benefits of making a soil surfactant application in the late fall prior to the ground freezing.
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Fall Seedhead Suppression Application
With fall aerification finished for most of us, it’s time to focus on the final step before putting your turf to bed for the season.
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How to Winterize Your Linemark iGo Machine
Get your Linemark iGO machine ready for the winter with these simple steps.
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Connect with Steel Green Manufacturing
On October 17-19, Steel Green Manufacturing will debut at the GIE+EXPO. As an authorized distributor, Advanced Turf is excited to attend the show and follow their activities on social media. We invite you to connect as well!
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There’s Something About ArmorTech Tetra
There is a new product that targets "those" weeds… and approximately 250 more!
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Top Three Ways to Help Your Customers This October
It’s hard to believe it’s already October. What happened to 2018? From dealing with weather extremes to weed and fungus outbreaks in regional areas that we haven’t seen before, I sit back and think what a strange and unpredictable growing season 2018 has been.
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Football Field Day-to-Day Maintenance
Is your field ready for football season? Follow this checklist to make sure your field is in prime shape from the first game to the last.
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It’s Never Too Early to Start Saving for the Future
It's never to early to start thinking about saving and investing for the future. Find out how you can start today.
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Here’s Another Reason Your Field Or Lawn Does Not Want To Recover
We are now beginning to figure out how much of our turf damage is related to summer weather and asking if there is another explanation needed. Cooler days and nights will provide our landscapes with some much-needed relief and recovery; however, most of us will experience some turf that continues to look like mid-August. At […]
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Why Are There Webs on the Lawn?
You wake up one dewy morning to your lawn covered in spider webs, and you may wonder who decorated for Halloween? It could be one of two culprits- actual spiders or dollar spot. But which one is it?
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Recipe for Success: How to Manage Fall Challenges
Sometimes it seems it's just one challenge after another. Here are some challenges to look out for and some strategies for success.
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Talk of the Season: Aeration and Overseeding
When the fall season rolls around, there are two topics on everyone's minds: aeration and overseeding. Find out why now is the time to do these applications and the answers to some frequently asked questions.
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How to Not Waste Your Time on Herbicide Applications This Fall
What should we know about fall herbicide treatments? How can you save time? What products could you use? We sat down with Sales and Product Development Manager, Mark Sybouts, to learn more. Why are fall herbicide treatments effective against broadleaf weeds? In the fall, the cold weather and shorter days trigger most of the perennial […]
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Granule Fertilizing Do’s and Don’ts
Are you a pro at spreading fertilizer? Check your knowledge of the do's and don'ts of granule fertilizer applications.
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Fall Golf Course Disease Control in the Transition Zone
With golf courses consisting of both cool-season and warm-season grasses, fall is a busy time when it comes to disease management in the transition zone. However, the name of the game for fall disease management in the transition zone is “put it to bed clean.” If you want to come out in spring clean and disease free, you have to put your course to bed clean and disease free.
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BASF Championship Conditions: Outside the Ropes
BASF offers some of the best fungicides on the market for golf courses and lawn care. BASF also offers an innovative lineup of herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides for effective weed, disease and insect control around clubhouse grounds and what we consider “outside the ropes.” This ensures that the perimeters of the property are kept in […]
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Late Summer Turf Recovery
The nights are getting longer and the temperatures will begin moderating. Now is the time to begin promoting turf recovery.
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How to Correctly Calibrate Your Sprayer
Learn how to calibrate your sprayer with this step-by-step video.
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The State of Freight: And How It May Affect You
The first 7 months of 2018 have seen the most dynamic freight market in recent history. In this post, we would like to explain what's going on in the market and how it may affect you.
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