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Best Use Of Aramax Intrinsic Brand Fungicide

Best Use Of Aramax Intrinsic Brand Fungicide AramaxTM Intrinsic® brand fungicide from BASF became available to golf course superintendents in June. As anticipation surrounding the incorporation of a new disease control tool into spray programs builds, questions surrounding how to effectively use the fungicide quickly expand.

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Championship Spotlight Returns to Valhalla

Championship Spotlight Returns to Valhalla

Pat Jones talks to John Ballard and his motivated team to showcase the Bluegrass State at the 2024 PGA Championship. Find out how an exciting new BASF chemistry product on the ground is helping him manage disease.

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The Grass Doesn’t Know What Day It Is

The Grass Doesn’t Know What Day It Is

John Reilly, Director of Agronomy at The Resort at Longboat Key Club, discusses his data-driven approach to managing disease and achieving plant health for Seashore paspalum. 

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Snow Mold Has Met Its Max

Snow Mold Has Met Its Max        

Aramax™ Intrinsic® brand fungicide performed well in real-world trials last winter, and superintendents are buzzing about ease of use and the low rate. In short, Aramax Intrinsic brand fungicide is here, and it’s ready to help fight back against snow mold.

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Strategies for Managing Summer Patch

Strategies for Managing Summer Patch

Summer patch plagues some courses with perennial pressure and months of susceptibility, and superintendents are responding to this added stress in a variety of ways. BASF senior technical specialist Jen Browning, PCA, shares her insights.

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Take a Fresh Look at Intrinsic® brand fungicides

Take a Fresh Look at Intrinsic® brand fungicides

Pat Jones fielded a survey to measure attitudes about plant health components. Find out where the role of turfgrass products with enhanced plant health stands in 2022. 

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The Chemistry of Greatness

The Chemistry of Greatness

Pat Jones caught up with John Jeffreys to learn about the elite chemistry that's necessary to maintain Pinehurst standard of greatness.

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Sneaky disease

One sneaky disease

Without proper awareness and control mechanisms, summer patch can sometimes cause even bigger turf dilemmas than textbook topics.

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The Reviews Are In: Encartis Has Quickly Become a Go-To Product for Supers

The Reviews Are In: Encartis® Has Quickly Become a Go-To Product for Supers

Encartis fungicide is a great new tool for fairway dollar spot and a host of other disease issues as a bookend or in-season solution.

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Building Foundations Around Celebrations

Building Foundations Around Celebrations

Pat Jones caught up with BASF sales reps to find out how their customers use the Holiday Spray program today and why it continues to grow in both popularity and value.

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Control Tough Weeds with Pylex Herbicide

Q&A with Kyle Miller: Controlling Tough Weeds with Pylex® Herbicide

Learn more about Pylex herbicide, a versatile postemergent herbicide offers best-in-class control of the toughest weeds.

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Big Championship, Short Timeline

Big Championship, Short Timeline

Pat Jones talks to Jeff Corcoran, the longtime manager of golf courses and grounds at Oak Hill Country Club. Find out how BASF is helping him meet the plant health challenges of the May event.

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Love Letters to Lexicon

Love Letters to Lexicon

Superintendents were asked which BASF product they couldn’t live without, and the results revealed that quite a few have an emotional attachment to Lexicon® Intrinsic® brand fungicide. We talked to some smitten supers to find out why. 

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The solution is out

The Solution is Out. Now What?

BASF launched Alucion® 35 WG insecticide last year, expanding the company’s golf insecticide portfolio from none to one. The company enters a new realm of the golf market with confidence, because of its triumphs developing turf fungicides and herbicides. 

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Southern Fried Holiday Spray

Southern Fried Holiday Spray

When tough disease management problems collide with the challenges of warm-season turf, supers down south turn to a foundational program using the proven Intrinsic® brand fungicides from BASF.

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Best Use of Fungicides

Best Use of Fungicides

Fungicides account for a significant portion of a golf course maintenance budget and not understanding how to use them properly can prove costly for a superintendent.  BASF senior technical specialist Emma Lookabaugh explains.

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Strong start … as expected

Strong start … as expected

A fungicide waiting in reserve for nearly a decade is quickly finding a fit in programs designed to elevate playing conditions on fairways.

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Alucion Q and A with Jen Browning

Alucion® 35 WG Q&A with Jen Browning

Jen Browning, Technical Service Representative, gives us the download on a new dual-action, broad spectrum BASF insecticide that provides powerful control of surface-feeding insects.

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Turf Disease Take Down

Turf Disease Take Down

Learn how Pillar® SC Intrinsic® brand fungicide can help combat the majority of turf diseases more effectively.

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Finale® XL T&O Q&A with Kyle Miller

Kyle Miller, a technical specialist at BASF with 32 years of experience, gives us a closer look at the newest addition to the Finale herbicide lineup. Learn how Finale® XL T&O herbicide can help landscapers control weeds faster and more efficiently with lower use rates.

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Q&A with Jeff Vannoy: 2023 Early Order Program Lawn Care

Q&A with Jeff Vannoy: 2023 Early Order Program

Senior Product Manager of Turf Solutions at BASF, explains how the BASF 2023 Early Order Program offers a simplified approach to planning, ordering and saving to help lawn.

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Q&A with Jeff Vannoy: Future of Lawn Care Industry and BASF Innovations

Q&A with Jeff Vannoy: Future of Lawn Care and BASF Innovations

Jeff Vannoy, Senior Product Manager with BASF, gives his insights into the future of the lawn care industry and upcoming BASF innovations.

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Bulletproof: Supers have spoken

The data is in and Maxtima® fungicide and Navicon® Intrinsic® brand fungicide have earned rave reviews from superintendents and enthusiastic recommendations from salespeople.

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Building Foundations Around Celebrations

Building Foundations Around Celebrations

Pat Jones caught up with BASF sales reps to find out how their customers use the Holiday Spray program today and why it continues to grow in both popularity and value.

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