Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

Outcome 1: 1. Michigan State (Frank): Long term nutrient leaching 2. Michigan State (Frank): Nitrogen carrier in three rootzones 3. OSU, MN, MI: Correlation and calibration of the Illinois soil nitrogen test for use as a nitrogen fertility management Tool 4. PU (Bigelow) and other state: Effectiveness of fall nitrogen fertilization based on geographic location 5. Utah (Kopp): Evaluation of climate based irrigation controllers Outcome 2:: 1. Minnesota (Horgan): Defining low input golf course fairways and putting greens 2. Minnesota (Watkins): marketing low input turfgrasses, breeding rust resistance, fertilizer programs for grass seed production, fine fescues for golf course fairways 3. Southern Illinois: Low input establishment of zoysia 4. Purdue (Bigelow): Maintaining lawn turf with reduced nitrogen inputs Outcome 3: 1. NDSU and others: Evaluation of dollar spot in creeping bentgrass. Outcome 4: 1. Wisconsin: Improving the economic and environmental sustainability of sod production using biosolids Outcome 5:: 1. Michigan: GDD Tracker-used in MI, IN, IL, OH 2. Michigan Turf Disease: MSUturfdisease.net 3. Purdue Turf Cast Outcome 6: 1. OSU (Gardner): Natural products for weed and insect control 2. Missouri (Xi): Organic disease control 3. Kansas (St John): Long-term comparison between corn gluten, urea and milorganite for crabgrass control 4. PU (Patton): Organic control of broadleaf weeds 5. PU: Studies on the influence of Neotyphodium endophytes, Below-ground herbivory and environmental stress on performance of tall fescue and Kentucky bluegrass 6. PU: Influence of nitrogen fertility, surfactants, thatch and the availability of host insects on infectivity and persistence of the entomopathogenic nematode Heterorhabditis bacteriphora 7. PU: IPM for white grubs on golf courses: clarifying biological and economic trade-offs 8. PU: Improving integration of cultural and biological controls for managing turfgrass insects Outcome 8: 1. MO: Evaluation of methiozolin safety and efficacy applied as pre- or post-emergence herbicide 2. PU: Putting green annual bluegrass population dynamics as affected by flurprimidol, fertilizer and soil surfactants 3. PU, NE: Timing and rate of methiozolin for greens height annual bluegrass control 4. IL, NE: Ami+Meso for controlling annual bluegrass in KBG/PRYE fairways 5. NE, PU, MI: Controlling Poa annua on putting green height turf in Indiana, Michigan, and Nebraska 6. NE, IA: Summer interseeding and aggressive post-seeding herbicides to reduce annual bluegrass in fairways 7. NE, IL: Amicarbazone and mesotrione for annual bluegrass control (NE, IL) 8. Kentucky: Identification and management of annual bluegrass biotypes on golf greens

Refereed Publications Outcome 6: Blubaugh, C.K., V.A.Caceres, I. Kaplan, J. Larson, C.S. Sadof and D.S. Richmond. 2011. Ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) phenology, diversity, and response to weed cover in a turfgrass ecosystem. Environmental Entomology 40: 1093-1101. Baldauf, M.W. W.J. Mace and D.S. Richmond. 2011. Endophyte-mediated resistance to black cutworm as a function of endophyte strain in tall fescue. Environmental Entomology 40: 639-647.