Author: djsoldat
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What’s the Deal with “No Mow May”?
For the last couple of springs, there has been a lot of chatter about “No Mow May”. Recently, a team from UW-Extension, including Dr. Koch and Dr. Soldat, authored a…
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Discussions on lawn and golf turf management
Below are links to video recordings of three recent discussions on lawns and golf course management from the UW-Turf Team. Let’s Talk Lawns (target audience: homeowners) Optimizing Nitrogen Fertilization (target…
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Implications for Disease Control under Reduced Management Conditions
All reports are that courses are emerging from winter in fabulous shape…as long as you had a strong snow mold treatment down. This is obviously good news because recovery from…
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Water Quality of Golf Courses: What Does the Data Say?
Michael Bekken, a Ph.D. student in the Soldat lab in Soil Science, recently published a review of scientific studies looking at water quality on golf courses in the July/Aug. 2018…
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Thinning out thick “native” areas
Since 2014, Neil Radatz at Hawks Landing in Madison has been kind enough to let us play around with weed control strategies in native or non-mowed rough areas. We have…
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Assistance for Creating a Nutrient Management Plan
NR-151 is an administrative rule from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources that addresses how turfgrass areas over 5 acres in size should be fertilized. Here are some documents and…