In my last blog I spoke about the speed disease populations can increase at during conducive conditions and how you can use fungicides to help zero out that population. The more I look at disease management the more I separate out fungicide usage and Integrated Turf Management (ITM), not because they are unrelated (they both…
Auteur/autrice : Glenn Kirby
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BASIS
The role of ITM
Disease population growth
The last few weeks I’ve been on the road presenting my « Fungicide planning presentation ». The core message has been slightly simpler than « planning » though. In an attempt to try to understand the way to get the best out of fungicides I think it’s imperative weunderstand the way that the disease develops. This 2008 article by…
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The Cranefly Flies
It’s a late hatch this year, for a long period I kept wondering to myself if the incredibly dry summer we’ve had would have dramatically reduce the Cranefly / Leatherjacket population.However it seems whilst I’m not seeing swarms of Cranefly like I have in some previous years there’s still an awful lot of them around…