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Get an insight into new turf technologies and integrated strategies to enhance plant health and cope with a changing climate – on Syngenta stand B226 at BTME.

Greenkeepers hold the key to delivering sustainability solutions that are increasingly important for the management of golf clubs.

BTME delegates will learn that weather patterns are creating an increasing challenge for turf management. One of the biggest impacts now, and certainly into the future, is the implications for damaging disease effects.

Turf roots are hugely important in creating more resilient plants that are better able to cope with challenges of climate and the stresses imposed by managing high quality surfaces all year around.

Goring & Streatley Golf Club in Berkshire has won the prestigious title of Syngenta Operation Pollinator Award winners, presented to Deputy Course Manager and Ecology Manager, Melissa Winkworth.

Peter Pattenden, spray tech at the Cheshire championship golf resort, Carden Park, has won the prestigious title of Amenity Sprayer Operator of the Year.

Humidity is the amount of water held in the air. At cool temperatures that can manifest as fog or mist, where the water droplets coalesce. At warmer temperatures many more smaller droplets can be held suspended in the air; air at a temperature of 35⁰C can hold six times as much water compared to 5⁰C.Meteorologically, humidity is measured as RH (Relative Humidity), which is a % of the maximum water holding capacity of the air at any given temperature. Why is important for turf management?Humidity has a huge bearing on leaf wetness, which is in itself one of the major drivers of most turf diseases. High humidity in warm temperatures creates the ideal conditions for most pathogens to develop, particularly microdochium patch in autumn/spring and dollar spot through late spring to early autumn.Even when rainfall or modelled leaf wetness might appear to indicate low disease threat, high levels of humidity can be sufficiently conducive as to pose a risk. In high humidity conditions leaves may be…

The hugely popular Ultimate Offers from Syngenta and ICL are back for 2025 - making the essential products for effective management of high quality turf more affordable for all.

Find out some of the tips and advice to create valuable ecology habitats from the finalists of this year's Syngenta Operation Pollinator Award.

Lawn care professionals should be gearing up for the spring herbicide strategy as soil temperatures start to rise in the spring. Weeds can be among the first to kick off – and especially visible until regular lawn mowing is underway.

Three types of seedling disease may occur:Seed rot, where the seed fails to germinate.Pre-emergence damping off where the seed germinates but fails to emerge.Post-emergence damping off where the seedling emerges but fails to establish (Plate 1).Where are Seedling Diseases found?Any area that has been newly sown. All turfgrass species can be affected, although post-emergence damping off is most severe on Bentgrass, Fescue and Poa pratensis L.Effects of Seedling DiseasesA very thin sward may develop, allowing access for Poa annua grass seed germination and contamination of the final sward.High Risk SituationsDry conditions favour Fusarium spp.Wet conditions favour Pythium spp.Inadequate or excessive seedbed fertiliser.Sowing during poor weather conditions.Poorly prepared seedbed.Integrated Turf Management SolutionsGood seedbed preparation.An appropriate rate of seedbed fertiliser should be used.An appropriate rate of high quality grass seed should be used and sown…