Great attendance at the 73rd Annual Southeastern Turfgrass Conference! We were honored to host representatives from all fields of the turfgrass industry to discuss the latest in turfgrass.
Pretty cool! Yesterday I got to work alongside 200 golf industry folks at the #NationalGolfDay Community Service Project. Our team of ~20 was tasked with planting nearly 5,000 plants at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial.
This week on #SodU, we interview Dr. Yanqi Wu, @okstate researcher and internationally recognized breeder of Latitude 36™ & NorthBridge™ Bermudagrass. Learn about his work in breeding, the challenges he faced, & more at: bit.ly/2G1gqTE@wu_yanqi@TurfgrassBA#USGA
Turf covers 3.5 million acres in Florida, and it's growing. @UF_IFAS research is helping reduce water and fertilizer use: bit.ly/2G17m1c#IFASResearch @JackPayneIFAS
UF/IFAS researchers discuss their work on drought-resistant turfgrass with @USDA_NIFA Director Scott Angle and @JackPayneIFAS. "We're trying to do our part to disassociate turfgrass with high water use." #NIFAImpacts#turfgrass@UF_IFASResearch
Our recent paper on the use of UAV in turf variety trials was just published! @SCRI_Turf#uav#drones
Applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Based Imagery in Turfgrass Field Trials frontiersin.org/article/10.3…
Tenacity is a great product to help control some grassy weeds. It can cause temporary yellowing/bleaching in some St. Augustinegrass cultivars. @UFIFASAgronomy’s new CitraBlue (middle) is unaffected. - @kekenworthy
Casey Reynolds, TPI Executive Director, unveils new PR campaign to better define turfgrass, its benefits and how Turfgrass compares to synthetic turf @TPITurfTalk#KeepItREAL
Jessica Brown presenting her MS thesis work on mapping QTL for freeze tolerance in zoysiagrass at the @CSSATurf annual meetings #2018C5#ACSMtg#packpride
Turfgrass field day happening now. SCRI project looking at turf performance of four species under different irrigation treatments. @UFTurfTeam @kekenworthy @jbunruh
Come see this in person and other exciting research at next week’s rescheduled Turfgrass field day at Citra. Learn about two new St. Augustinegrass options for Florida landscapes. @UF_IFAS@UFIFASAgronomy - @kekenworthy