Raleigh native, Wolfpack turfgrass scientist — NC State Turfgrass Pathology
Raleigh, NC
Joined March 2022
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Severe Mini-Ring symptoms at Lake Wheeler on Champion UDBG. Nitrate fertility may lend aid in combination with your fungicide program!
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8 weeks exactly from sprigging day on our new TifEagle greens here @LPGCncstate
Preview rounds for staff today, Charter Partners tomorrow, and Public play begins on Friday. Our team has done a hell of a job and we certainly thank everyone who has supported this project!
Mini-ring already doing its thing in the lowcountry.
Preventative fungicide applications beginning now continuing through Sept/October has worked well in the central NC. Growers further south may need to begin applications even earlier!
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New extension publication for managing common turfgrass diseases in North Carolina lawns with @KernsJim @DanFreundTurf.
content.ces.ncsu.edu/disease…
Some cool info here! – at Cary, NC
Some light reading for anyone bored to death at the moment, the 2025 Turf Diagnostics Lab review of golf course putting green samples. Enjoy!
turfpathology.ces.ncsu.edu/2…
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I am looking for a Research Technician to join the Turfgrass & Forage Weed Science Lab at NC State. Opportunity to enroll in classes and pursue graduate education while working. If you are interested in weed management research, then consider applying.
jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/22291…
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Our lab will be closed next week 2/3-2/6 to attend the GCSAA Conference. Anything submitted will be diagnosed on Friday 2/7. See you all out there in San Diego! ☀️ 🌴
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🚨 Heads up tall fescue managers! Active gray leaf spot in 2 trial locations in the Raleigh area this week. QoI’s alone won’t hold this back, so now is the time to add a DMI and/or t-methyl. Given the forecast, we hope you all are on top of this one because damage will be swift.
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Great article by Grady Miller about management of turfgrasses under heat and drought stress.
turffiles.ncsu.edu/2024/06/m…
An eventful day behind the microscope finally confirming isolation of Rapid Blight pathogen L. terrestris + a bonus pic of some gnarly Pythium oospores. – at Raleigh, NC
I had to do a double take when looking at this cover... this is a surprising, yet fantastic article highlighting Venango Valley Inn & Golf course in rural NW P.A. I am a proud nephew to Durbin and Kim and grateful to have spent my teenage summers working at this special place. – at Garner, NC
Need reading material entering the weekend?
Our February issue is LIVE and it includes:
· A Pennsylvania course setting a ‘small-town standard’
· Why one of your California peers counts blades of grass
· Autonomous mowing in application
golfcourseindustry.com/magaz…
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Heads up bermudagrass putting green managers! Mother Nature is calling 'em home in the transition zone and we are starting to see purpling of the foliage due to the cold weather shutting down chloroplast activity.
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Awesome mini-ring pressure in year 2 of a 2-year study looking at the same season-long fungicide program +/- products on an UDB putting green in NC. Want to learn more? Be sure to catch @KernsJim and @ClemsonTurfPath at the @CarolinasGCSA show funded by @Rounds4Research!
Mini-ring showing its face… The environment side of the disease triangle has kicked in! – at Garner, NC
A number of mini-ring samples in the lab. With a tropical system on the way fungicide and fertilizer after will go a long way! Two important points, water those fungicides in! The pathogen affects the nodes. Second, seeing this on approaches and tees content.ces.ncsu.edu/leaf-an…
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Another great NCSU Turfgrass Field Day! Amazing opening with bagpipes! @FraserMelodee. Great crowds and I am super proud of the @ncturfpathology lab! See you all August 14th, 2024!
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🚨 Bentgrass managers in North Carolina🚨Pythium root rot is raging at the research farm. Hope you all have your best PRR apps on the ground. Survive and advance!
