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…
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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…