Office Hours with Micah Woods

Exploring the New PACE Turf with Maggie Reiter

Micah Woods and Maggie Reiter discuss the new features, design, and tools at PACE Turf, https://paceturf.org/ PACE Turf: https://paceturf.org/membership/

Autumn #OM246 review: 7 year timeline with Chris Tritabaugh

Chris Tritabaugh and I share and comment on the latest #OM246 test results from what is now a time series stretching over the past seven growing seasons. We discuss what

Pesticide-free turf management with Thomas Pihl, Mads Andersen, and Martin Nilsson

Thomas Pihl, Mads Andersen, and Martin Nilsson joined ATC Office Hours to discuss the challenges, techniques, successes, and failures involved with pesticide-free turfgra

Fungicide use intensity, the soil microbiome, and disease severity with Dr. Ming-Yi Chou

Dr. Ming-Yi Chou joined me for a short discussion about this topic at the ITRC. Now we discuss this on ATC Office Hours and answer a few questions. For more, see: - htt

2024 #OM246 review with Chris Tritabaugh

Join me, along with Chris Tritabaugh from Hazeltine National GC, as we review autumn soil test results. We especially look at the #OM246 total organic material results, a

Growth ratio, measurement units, & turf math with Jason Haines & Bjarni Hannesson

Jason and Bjarni joined me to talk about some useful turfgrass math, especially  the turfgrass growth ratio, which you can read more about at https://www.asianturfgrass.c

Autumn #OM246 review with "the guy who doesn't do maintenance Mondays"

For the third consecutive autumn, Chris Tritabaugh joined me to review the OM246 (total organic material by depth) test results from the greens at Hazeltine National Golf

Firm bentgrass greens and OM management with Richard Forsyth

Richard Forsyth is the director of courses at Royal Melbourne Golf Club. We discussed playing conditions, maintenance work, and grass types in relation to production of f

Championship conditions discussion with Eric Johnson and MLSN, ClipVol, & OM246

Eric Johnson joined from his office at Chambers Bay to discuss everyday golfing conditions, championship playing surfaces, and workflow using techniques such as clipping

Why are we cultivating so much? Soil organic matter with Dr. Roch Gaussoin

Dr. Roch Gaussoin and I discussed soil organic matter, soil organic material, and a lot of things related that that topic. Read more about all kinds of turfgrass topics

Autumn 2022 OM246 review with Chris Tritabaugh

Find out more about #OM246 testing at https://www.asianturfgrass.com/tag/om246/ Read Chris's blog with more about this topic at https://ct-turf.medium.com/ Read more abo

MLSN and soil test interpretation on bentgrass and Poa annua with Jackie Guevara

Jackie's thesis at Michigan State University was titled "Effects of Different Soil Testing Philosophies on Creeping Bentgrass and Annual Bluegrass Putting Greens." She lo

Golf turf playability with Carl Schimenti: green speed, firmness, smoothness and trueness of roll

Ball bounce clip from Dan Dinelli: https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxbIlZVkgZyANVSbtpaKnYkPk4xEeDGCyiPlayability-tagged posts on the ATC website: https://www.asianturfgrass.co

No change in soil OM after sand topdressing just once in a year, with Andrew McDaniel

We discussed the ball reaction video from the 2021 KBC Augusta tournament: https://youtu.be/bbcJhA1zqNoWatch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/QxNAOcxzsYMFollow A

Leaf nutrient analyses (tissue tests) with Doug Soldat

Doug Soldat joined me to discuss tissue tests for turfgrass, and how we might make use of them (or not) to make decisions about fertilizer. Frankly Speaking episode with

Chris Tritabaugh's blog, disruption, and playability

Read Chris's blog at https://ct-turf.medium.com/ The posts we discussed were titled  Is that disruptionAre they right? andThe data says ...See more about the bobble tes

Turfgrass growth potential (GP) with Larry Stowell from PACE Turf

Get climate appraisal forms from PACE Turf at https://www.paceturf.org/index.php/journal/climate Read about growth potential on the ATC website at https://www.asianturfg

Nutrient requirements of Poa annua and MLSN with Ben Brace

Ben Brace and I discussed how we expect MLSN to work for Poa annua, and if there might be some differences compared with creeping bentgrass. We discussed biostimulants, s

Tom Cook on lawn ecology, bentgrass, and climax species in the Pacific Northwest

Watch the video of this conversation: https://youtu.be/Xga9_uA8MBg Read more about Tom Cook in this article: https://www.turfnet.com/blogs/entry/1452-tom-cook-pioneered-

OM246 report review with Chris Tritabaugh

Chris Tritabaugh, the golf course superintendent at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Minnesota, discusses an OM246 report for samples collected in October 2021. This is to