Program '11 Update: Dry and Cool

It's been dry in Raleigh during most of June, and cool (compared to last year, at least) for the last couple weeks. Disease pressure on our 'A-1' bentgrass green has been relatively light as a result. Nevertheless, we still made several changes to Program '11:

Dollar spot pressure was still pretty high in early June, so instead of applying Disarm C on June 6 we applied Honor for its better activity against dollar spot. We skipped the application of Subdue Maxx that was planned for June 13 because of the dry conditions. Then on June 20 we applied the Disarm C that was originally planned for June 6.


All of the programs are providing good brown patch control. Dollar spot is still reducing turf quality in the Syngenta Program, but all other programs are providing very good turf quality this week.


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