Jada Powlen and Cale Bigelow recently had a manuscript published. “Cool-season golf course fairway species irrigation requirements under limited irrigation” It is an open access paper: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cft2.20205. The manuscript reports the results of a two-year field study looking at various traditional and alternative cool-season golf course fairway grasses for their summer water needs. These data…Read more about Jada Powlen and Cale Bigelow Published New Paper[Read More]
Cale Bigelow and Jada Powlen attended and participated in the 2023 Sports Field Managers Association (SFMA) annual meeting last week in Salt Lake City, UT. They co-presented a seminar “What’s new in cultural practices for turf disease suppression” and Cale presented two seminars: Turfgrass nutrition 101 and co-presented Practical calculations for the sports field manager…Read more about Highlights from the 2023 Sports Field Managers Association Annual Meeting[Read More]
Congratulations to Cale Bigelow for receiving the William Daniel Award on January 19 at the Sports Field Management Association (SFMA) Conference. Named for one of the four founders of SFMA, Dr. William Daniel set the pattern for educator/researcher involvement in SFMA. The partnership between educators and researchers and the sports turf managers who incorporate these advances…Read more about Cale Bigelow Receives the William Daniel Award from the Sports Field Management Association[Read More]
Brandon McNally and co-authors recently published a paper in Agrosystems, Geosciences, and the Environment Journal titled “Phosphorus influences annual bluegrass competitiveness at seeding in perennial ryegrass and creeping bentgrass”. Available at https://doi.org/10.1002/agg2.20321.
Several of our graduate students in Turfgrass Science placed in graduate student research poster presentations at the Crop Science Society of America Annual Meeting earlier this week. Jada Powlen, 1st place, in the Crop Science Society of America, Turfgrass Science Division (C-5), graduate student research poster presentation contest, industry section, 2022. Baltimore, MD. Amanda Folck,…Read more about Turf Graduate Students Win Awards at Crop Science Society of America Annual Meeting[Read More]
Golf Course Management Magazine featured the Purdue Turf and Landscape Field Day in its latest publication, highlighting this must-attend event and the strength of the turfgrass program at Purdue. Read the article online: https://www.gcmonline.com/research/news/purdue-turfgrass-program.
Cale Bigelow and Jada Powlen attended the 49th Virginia Tech Turf Field Day in Blacksburg, Virginia. Jada presented on a collaborative field research project related to her Ph.D. dissertation examining the effects of planting cool-season grass blends and mixtures with superior resistance to the summer lawn disease, brown patch. The results of these studies demonstrate a…Read more about Cale Bigelow and Jada Powlen Presented at Virginia Tech Turf Field Day[Read More]