A packed schedule is sure to offer something for every golf course superintendent at this year's University of Tennessee Turf and Ornamental Field Day.
Scheduled for the Sept. 10 at the East Tennessee Ag Research and Education Center, the field day attracts more than 500 professional turf managers and offers pesticide recertification credits for attendees from Tennessee as well as Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. The program also has been approved by the GCSAA for 0.50 CEUs.
Topics to be covered include pre-emergent and post-emergent weed control, fescue establishment and maintenance, disease control in bentgrass putting greens, new tools for aerification, climate change for turf managers, BMPs for non-turf areas, boxwood blight update, new Bermuda and zoysia cultivars, invasive pests (including emerald ash borer), ornamental grasses and ultradwarf Bermuda management.
The event also will include a fraze mowing demonstration and information on its benefits as well as a behind-the-scenes tour of the East Tennessee Ag Research and Education Center.
Details on the field day are here.