225 attend turfgrass
HIGH POINTS HEIGHTS, Md.
About 225 persons turned out for
the first research field day and
equipment show at the University
of Maryland’s new Turfgrass
Research and Education Facility
m Highpoint Heights (Prince
Georges county)on Aug. 2.
Located across Cherry Hill road
from the Hopkins plant research
farm near Calverton, operated by
the university’s Maryland
Agricultural Experiment Station,
the turfgrass facility was
dedicated on Sept. 29,1983.
The morning tour of ex
perimental plots featured research
being conducted in the areas of
turfgrass fertility, weed control,
plant growth regulators and non
target effects of fungicides. There
also were studies on tall fescue
seeding rates, zoysiagrass
establishment and management,
jsitors to the University of Maryland’s turf grass fiei jy 0,. jg.. get close h
Kentucky bluegrass varieties being compared under the National Turfgrass Evaluation
Program conducted jointly with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Results from this
test will be used in formulating variety recommendations for Maryland and Virginia.
Exactly 22 of the 84 varieties being tested are already on the “recommended" list.
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Mihlmburg, PA 17844 Clearville, PA 15535
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East Earl, PA 17519 Blairville, PA 15717
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and cold hardiness of ber
mudagrass.
Other tour stops included:
Rooting effects of tran
splanted sod treated with an
titranspirants and wetting agents;
Comparisons of perennial
ryegrass, Kentucky bluegrass, tall
fescue and fine fescue cultivars
under the National Turfgrass
Evaluation Program;
Establishing bermudagrass
under plastic covers.
At the latter stop, it was pointed
out the best results in this one-year
study were obtained from Midiron
bermudagrass sprigged under
plastic in the fall.
Trying to establish ber
mudagrass under plastic during
summer months gave no ad
vantage over sprigging under
straw or on bare ground. In fact,
most varieties suffered some heat
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field day
damage were established under
plastic in the summer. Tufcote was
the lone exception.
Field day coordinator was Dr.
Peter H. Demoeden, Extension
turfgrass management specialist
and assistant professor of
agronomy at the University of
Maryland in College Park.
The Maryland Turfgrass Council
sponsored a crab feast at noon.
Afterward, field day visitors heard
short talks from University of
Maryland agricultural ad
ministrators, participated in in-,
formal tours to research plots of
particular interest, and viewed
product displays and demon
strations by commercial
exhibitors.
One of the products displayed
was a commercial ryegrass seed
purported to have gentic insect
repellent qualities.
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Ag Progress Days
Visit our booth in the dairy tent and
see how Inter-State has helped dairy
become the largest agri-business in
Pennsylvania.
Variations in green color intensity among turfgrass
varieties create checkerboard pattern in fungicide test plots
at the University of Maryland's new Turfgrass Research and
Education Facility*in Highpoint Heights (Prince Georges
county). Darker plots in rear are perennial ryegrasses.
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