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Frank Rossi chats again with UW-Madison Badger Turfgrass Pathologist Paul Koch about the onslaught of disease issues facing midwestern superintendents, an alarming outbreak of annual bluegrass weevil, and what lies ahead for those sustaining annual bluegrass in the face of summer patch and anthracnose issues!

This is this is the best 18 minutes you will spend learning this week!

Annual bluegrass remains a blessing and curse to the golf turf industry. Professor Shawn Askew, Weed Scientist Extraordinaire from The Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, has been studying the impact of annual bluegrass on trueness of a putting surface, as well as being expert on the use of PoaCure (Methiolzolin) for annual bluegrass control in creeping bentgrass.

As an extra treat, Shawn is an accomplished “grass rapper” so be sure to listen all the way to the end. You don’t want to miss it!

In this July 21, 2020 episode of Turfgrass Hotline, Frank Rossi makes his monthly visit with Lee Butler, Director of Diagnostic Services at NC State as he’s driving to the mountains of North Carolina! A lively discussion of Take-All Root Rot, a complex of root pathogens attacking Ultra-Dwarf Bermudagrass. It’s been pretty good bentgrass and bermudagrass weather, Lee tells us, but there are problems ahead with heat building and plentiful moisture. You don’t want to miss the warning at the end!

Presented by DryJect, Civitas and Plant Food Company.

In this episode of Frankly Speaking, Dr. Frank Rossi speaks with Angelica Carmen, Sustainability Specialist at Cog Hill Golf and Country Club in Lemont, IL. Angelica works with golf course supt. Chris Flick and directs Fairway Farms, a farm to table experience at one of the world’s great public golf courses! Frank and Angelica discuss establishing a small urban farm among 4 four golf courses and using the land to promote environmental stewardship and food production. There are plenty of tips for you to see how a farm to table experience might be just the thing in a Post-COVID world!

Presented by DryJect, Civitas/Intelligro and Plant Food Company.

In this more serious episode from Rockbottum Country Club, Randy and the gang share their experience in golf course renovations and resurrections. In Storytime, they tell about one of their most successful reno projects ever.

Cletus solves the coronavirus mask shortage problem; visiting "Science Boy, Ph.D." tests a new technique for killing sting 'todes, and Willy gets thrown in timeout for fighting amongst himself.

Presented by DryJect.

In this episode of the TurfNet Turfgrass Hotline Northeast, Frank Rossi and Rich Buckley discuss the onset of summer stress, anthracnose, root diseases and how to build resiliency into your playing surfaces. As Frank and Rich “make do with what they got”, the rest of us get to enjoy another lively conversation regarding the pest and stress turf managers are facing in the northeast!

Recorded July 7, 2020. Presented by DryJect, Civitas and Plant Food Company.

In this episode of Turfgrass Hotline, Frank Rossi and Lee Butler chat about a warm, wet start to the season during the COVID lockdown, and how both warm- and cool-season grasses struggle with rooting issues from nematodes to take-all! A lively discussion about Asco-whatta? Leaf spot and brown patch in tall fescue.

It’s a great day in the Carolinas! Recorded June 23, 2020.

Presented by DryJect, Intelligro/Civitas and Plant Food Company.

The roller coaster that is the Spring season in the Midwest did not disappoint. In fact, the BEST snow mold year, says Dr. Paul Koch of the University of Wisconsin-Madison... and now summer patch samples, Pythium root issues in areas that are very wet (like Iowa), and using dollar spot model to justify new fairway grasses. Whew! Lot of ground covered with this Badger!

Recorded June 23, 2020.

Presented by DryJect, Intelligro/Civitas and Plant Food Company.

Ohio State professor Karl Danneberger, Ph.D., shares his experience with the Covid-19 virus. Karl was diagnosed with virus in March, spent a month in the hospital at OSU. He talks with us about pre-existing conditions that made him more vulnerable to the disease, his experiences on a ventilator, going through rehab, dealing with some residual health issues since being released from the hospital, the strength of his family, what it was like to finally see his wife after being apart for a month and his newfound appreciation for the Whopper sandwich.

In this Turfgrass Hotline Transition Zone Edition, Frank Rossi chats with Dr. Lee Miller of the University of Missouri about cool weather issues on zoysiagrass, Pythium root rot, and dollar spot pressure.

Recorded June 16, 2020.