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Pay attention to your seed labels! Note that “other crop seed” would include things like ryegrass in a tall fescue seed. 1% is enough to leave one rye grass plant every foot in every direction.

Great article on new Virginia Tech Turfgrass Science grad Rob Starr taking his career to the next level. news.vt.edu/content/news_v…

Aerating the Steve Johnson Practice Field

Demo of Ecorobotix prototype machine-vision sprayer at the Independence Golf Course Turfgrass Research Classic and Field Day hosted by Virginia Tech and the Virginia Golf Course Superintendents Association. Our research shows 75 to over 90% reductions in herbicide use with this

Great recognition for recent @vtturfgrass PhD graduate Navdeep Godara: news.vt.edu/content/news_v…

First painting on the new field.

Thrilled to share that I have officially completed my Master’s degree at Virginia Tech. This achievement would not have been possible without the guidance of my advisor, Dr. Shawn Askew Shawn Askew, Ph.D., and the support from the faculty, staff, and friends at the School of Plant and

Excited to see this was published! Lots of hours spent sweating in the greenhouse 😂. Huge thank you to Kevin Hensler and Dr. David McCall for their help! doi.org/10.1002/its2.7…

Great to have Rock Haven Turf Specialties at the Virginia Tech Turfgrass Science Research Center today helping us prep some new planting sites. #vaturf

.VT Grounds Crew's Emerson Pulliam and Dan Sandor, PhD tell our visiting Virginia FFA State Convention students about the maintenance (& this year, the Metallica recovery protocol) of Worsham Field. #vaturf

Working with Alejandro Del Pozo who treated some scintillation vials for quick bioassays, Annual bluegrass weevils collected in Blacksburg, VA still appear to be susceptible to pyrethroids like bifenthrin. Red is the labeled high rate and orange is 10x dilution.

Emerson working on putting the goalpost back up at Lane Stadium/Worsham Field

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Appreciative of great help from across all spectrums of Virginia Tech Turfgrass Science Team & VT Weed Science team students for installation of TWCA rainout shelter plastic on a surprisingly windless day in Blacksburg. (If Arkansas had Dan Sandor, PhD on mound this year they'd be national champs.)

So thankful for the opportunity to present some of the work I've been doing so far as the KC Current's playing surface data technician intern at the MoKan SFMA event today! Can't believe they let me put my presentation on the scoreboard! MO-KAN STMA SFMA

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THANK YOU to all the 4-H members who participated in our annual ‘STEM in Sports Field Management’ workshop at the Virginia 4-H Congress this week. We had a blast connecting with you and hope to see you in our Virginia Tech Turfgrass Science program soon!

The Turfgrass Pathology lab at Virginia Tech has placed a major effort on managing and better understanding spring dead spot (SDS) of hybrid bermudagrass. Details in TCNC_ magazine – theturfzone.com/tcnc/?ascat=9&…

Last week I defended my MS under the advising of Wendell Hutchens with Hannah Wright-Smith and Mike Richardson as turf specialist committee members, thank you all! I will be continuing research with Drs. McCall and Shawn Askew, Ph.D. at Virginia Tech as a PhD student in August! #WPS #GoHokies

on the green! 🌱