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What’s New in Turf Grass Weed Control? A conversation with Dr. Nick Christians of the Iowa State University, Department of Horticulture by Meta Levin
What’s new in turf
grass weed control? Nothing and many things. That was Iowa State University Horticulture Professor Nick Christians message to attendees at the 2016 Turf Education Day (TED). Held at the Chicago Botanic Garden, TED attracted a full house of landscape contractors and assorted turf specialists from all over Illinois, as well as neighboring states. And they all wanted to know what is new and, especially, how to keep the grass
looking beautiful. For those attending Christians’ presentation, that meant keeping the weeds at bay. The chemicals in the market are at once new and old, he told them. Many, if not all, are reformulations of the same components: Auxin like herbicides, ester, amine, protox inhibitors and so forth. “There always are new combinations of products based on the same set of principles,” he says. (continued on page 36)
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The Landscape Contractor February 2017