I had the pleasure of participating in a NYSTA sponsored education program in Endicott, NY on Thursday March 29. The seminar was the brain-child of NYSTA Board member Joe Potrikus who had been concerned that the devastating flood of September 2011 left many communities and specifically turf managers in need of educational support. The conference [...]
March 2012
Monthly Archive
March 30, 2012
Rising from the Mud
Posted by fsr3 under Educational events, Flooding, Travels with FrankNo Comments
March 29, 2012
This week: Seedhead suppression Pre-emergence crabgrass control Spring insect update Irrigation management Fairy Ring Control Week 2 – ShortCUTT for March 26, 2012 Click link to listen or download file to your mp3 player. Websites Frank refers to in the podcast: PET models – EvapoTranspiration (PET) data for regions across New York from the Northeast [...]
March 29, 2012
This week: Surreal weather Early spring weeds Annual bluegrass weevil Summer patch prevention Annual bluegrass seedhead suppression Week 1 – ShortCUTT for March 19, 2012 Click link to listen or download file to your mp3 player. Websites Frank refers to in the podcast: ForeCast: Weather for the Turf Industry To receive the weekly ShortCUTT newsletter, [...]
March 23, 2012
From Margarita M. López-Uribe (mml82@cornell.edu), Ph.D. candidate Department of Entomology Cornell University. Update 3/23/2012: Margarita is still looking for nests. Please contact her if you can help her. I am graduate student at Cornell University who is studying the population genetics of the ground nesting bee Colletes inaequalis. This is a solitary bee that is [...]
