The Midwest Regional Turf Field Day that will be held on Tuesday, July 21 at the W.H. Daniel Turfgrass Research and Diagnostic Center in West Lafayette. A number of additions should make this one of the best field days yet. The field day includes:
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A morning workshop in Spanish – Victoria Caceres will be teaching “White Grub Biology and Control” Spanish and designed for the key members of your staff that are more comfortable learning in Spanish than English.
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Afternoon workshop entitled “Economics of Fertilizer: Surviving in a changing market” by Dan Frick, of Frick Services, Inc., who is a specialist in fertilizer availability on both the retail and wholesale levels.
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Afternoon sports turf tour visiting all of the renovations of Purdue sports fields due to the Mackey Arena expansion. Includes Bermuda, cool-season, and in-fill fields.
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Afternoon tour on pest control of lawn and golf turf and includes short discussions on weeds, diseases, and insects as we tour across the Daniel Center plots.
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The morning research tours including stops on Poa annua in greens, goosegrass, yellow nutsedge, wetting agents, crabgrass, white grubs, geese, and three different stops on ornamentals in the landscape.
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Tradeshow and equipment demonstration featuring the latest equipment and products available to the industry.
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Pork chop lunch by Shoup’s Catering
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Up to 4 CCH’s 3b requested
All this plus substantial discounts for multiple registrants of the MRTF, so bring the whole staff!! More information is available at http://www.agry.purdue.edu/turf/events/fieldday/fdregistration.pdf or from Jennifer at 765-494-8039 or at biehlj@purdue.edu and county extension educators are provided free admission.