average you have 25 years of experiPlant Disease Diagnosis ence! The survey also told us that your I was rather surprised to learn that preferred information source for these of the 92 golf course superintendents diagnoses was through an internet and assistant superintendents that research and using online fact sheets, but sponded to this survey, only one has also with good old-fashioned books. submitted a sample to the UMN Plant There are a lot of great online sources Disease Clinic in the past year. So out there – I completely agree! Michihow are you diagnosing your turf disgan State University, North Carolina ease? State University, and Purdue University So 57 percent of respondents are online fact sheets are among my perself-diagnosing turf disease. This is sonal favorite turf websites. Still, I’d not a terrible thing since superintenlike to emphasize that accurate diagnosis is critical to proper management. dents have classroom training for turf management, take continuing educaDiseases like dollar spot and rust are pretty darn easy to diagnose, but other tion credits and have a lot of real-life diseases can sometimes be a little experience. As mentioned above, on
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