Cornell field day nears

Cornell Turf & Landscape Management Field Day features tours and hands-on calibration, grass ID and weed ID workshops.

Cornell Turf & Landscape Management Field Day is scheduled for June 21 at the Turf and Landscape Research Center in Ithaca, N.Y.

This year’s field day features tours and hands-on calibration, grass ID and weed ID workshops.

Registration starts at 8 a.m. with morning sessions beginning at 9:15. Following lunch, the afternoon sessions open at 1:30 p.m. and New York State pesticide recertification and education credits are given at 3:45 p.m.

For the turf professional:
· Organic and microbial product evaluation
· Sand-based K fertility
· Mower evaluation                                                      
· NTEP bentgrass trial
· Integrated dollar spot control
· Compost tea evaluation
· Landscape location: Impacts on water quality
· Soil test calibration studies
· Influence of different landscape types on surface water quality
· Annual bluegrass weevil research
· Fertigation system
· Fertilization effects on runoff P losses from turf 
· Invasive weed management issues
· Weed suppressive fescues 
· Velvet bentgrass management
· Waste water irrigation effects on turfgrass
· Designing the new Robert Trent Jones practice area
· Broadleaf weed control turf 
· Poa reptans evaluation
· Zerotol green side injection system for disease management
· Annual bluegrass seedhead suppression
· K effects on incidence of snow mold
· Selective annual bluegrass control with Velocity
· Innovative Zerotol application while mowing
· Evening mowing effects on turfgrass disease
· Iron and sulfur effects on turfgrass and performance
· Reduced fertility with microbial inoculants and organic products

Fee is $50 a person before June 15. On-site registration is $60. Registration includes ticket to research tours, research booklet, lunch and trade show access. 

For a registration form, directions and more information log onto www.hort.cornell.edu/instruction/short/cornellturf.htm.
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