The WCTA is pleased to announce our 2015 Silent Auction raised $4,797 to help fund turf management research projects. Thanks must go out to all donors who generously supplied auction items, without whom this fundraising effort would not be possible. And of course, congratulations to all the bid winners!
Read more: WCTA 16th Annual Turf Research Silent Auction Results
Prepared and submitted by Deborah Henderson, PhD
LEEF Regional Innovation Chair
Director, Institute for Sustainable Horticulture
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Background
Local strains of beneficial fungi have been little studied in Canada for development as biopesticides, however it is expected that many native isolates exist.
Read more: Survey for Beneficial Fungi in Turf Soils: Trichoderma
Media Release: October 21, 2014
The Canadian Turfgrass Research Foundation (CTRF) announced earlier today that it has received a $12,000 donation toward turfgrass research in Canada from the Atlantic Turfgrass Research Foundation (ATRF). The monies will be used for turfgrass research aimed at improving the quality and sustainability of turfgrass sites including golf courses, sports fields and turf uses generally.
Read more: CTRF Receives Donation from Atlantic Turfgrass Research Foundation
Frank S. Rossi, Ph.D. and Jennifer A. Grant, Ph.D. Cornell University
The golf course industry has been under scrutiny for pesticide use in NY for more than 25 years. The publication of “Toxic Fairways; Risking groundwater contamination from pesticides on Long Island golf courses” in 1991 inflamed the debate that would culminate a decade later in landmark legislation proposed to ban pesticide use on municipal golf courses in Suffolk County.
Read more: What We’ve Learned From a Decade of Reducing Pesticide Use
Canadian Allied Turfgrass Research is a collaborative group of Canadian turfgrass funding associations that have formed a research funding alliance for an annual call for proposals of Canadian turfgrass research grants.
Read more: Canadian Allied Turfgrass Research (CATR) Annual Call For Proposals