gtbop-archive-site/docs/green-commercial/2017-11-17-mccullough-weed-control/GTBOP_Transcript_2017-11-17_WeedControlTurf.srt

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Patrick McCullough: Good morning, everybody. This is Patrick McCullough. I am

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Patrick McCullough: I have pre-recorded this for the meeting. Sorry I could not be with you today.

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Patrick McCullough: I'm recording this on Friday, November 10th.

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Patrick McCullough: And this presentation is going to cover weed control topics in turfgrass management.

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Patrick McCullough: We're going to review the basics and also get some recent updates on some current trends

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Patrick McCullough: and some new products that are coming out in the turfgrass industry for pre- and post-emergent weed control.

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Patrick McCullough: Just to start off, going over some of the basics here.

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Patrick McCullough: Books for weed identification are very important for turfgrass managers to have.

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Patrick McCullough: We recommend two specific books for turfgrass managers to have to help identify weeds in their turf.

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Patrick McCullough: One is the Color Atlas of Turfgrass Weeds.

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Patrick McCullough: This is a hardback book published by the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America.

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Patrick McCullough: The other is Weeds of Southern Turfgrass.

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Patrick McCullough: This is a UGA publication that you can get to the Athens bookstore.

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Patrick McCullough: Both of these books are available online.

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Patrick McCullough: You can buy them through the Amazon site, eBay, and various other online sites.

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Patrick McCullough: vendors. But weed identification is very critical. We need to first identify the weed species

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Patrick McCullough: before we can select appropriate control options. And having a good book to reference can help

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Patrick McCullough: you key out a weed species as you see new species emerging in your turf.

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Patrick McCullough: Weed identification books are typically broken down into two main categories.

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Patrick McCullough: The first is grassy weeds versus broadleaf weeds.

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Patrick McCullough: Weeds are typically classified as either grasses or broadleaf weeds, monocots or dicots.

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Patrick McCullough: There's also a third category that we often find in weed identification books,

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Patrick McCullough: sort of a miscellaneous weed species section, and this is grass-like weeds.

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Patrick McCullough: This includes everything from sedges, wild garlic, wild onion, plants like Star of Bethlehem.

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Patrick McCullough: These plants typically don't fall under the category of grasses or broadleaf weeds,

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Patrick McCullough: but they are in that third category of grass-like weeds.

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Patrick McCullough: Some of the key characteristics that can help you identify weed species, starting with seed heads.

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Patrick McCullough: This is usually the first characteristic that I look for on a weed sample when we are trying to identify the species.

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Patrick McCullough: Most grassy plants have a very distinct seed head that is indicative of a certain species.

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Patrick McCullough: You can see here on this slide where we've got various seed heads on the top left there.

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Patrick McCullough: That is dallisgrass where it's a group of alternating spikes on the

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Patrick McCullough: seed head structure. The bottom left you can see crowfootgrass where the spikes

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Patrick McCullough: join together at the main point at the end of the seed head stem there. So these

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Patrick McCullough: are all very good characteristics that can help you quickly identify a weed species.

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Patrick McCullough: Typically in turfgrass we don't always have seed heads present, especially during the growing season when we're constantly mowing off shoot growth and the seed head formation.

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Patrick McCullough: But this is typically the best characteristic to quickly key out a weed species.

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Patrick McCullough: species that you may have in your turf. Here's a good example looking at two Paspalum

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Patrick McCullough: species here. You can see they have a very similar seed head spike

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Patrick McCullough: there between bahiagrass and dallisgrass.

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Patrick McCullough: These are two warm season perennial weedy species that have very different selective

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Patrick McCullough: control options.

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Patrick McCullough: We can get very good control of bahiagrass using herbicides like metsulfuron and various

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Patrick McCullough: warm season species. Whereas dallisgrass, we need to have very specific application programs and certain turfgrass species.

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Patrick McCullough: So getting the identification of those species keyed out can be critical. You can see

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Patrick McCullough: bahiagrass has a B-shaped seed head where the spikes join at the

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Patrick McCullough: base of the seed head versus dallisgrass that again has the alternating spike. So if

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Patrick McCullough: you don't have that seed head structure present, it may be difficult to key out those two weed

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Patrick McCullough: species in your turf. So a good example there where seed heads can help you identify the species

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Patrick McCullough: of the weed.

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Patrick McCullough: Here's a look at the Poa annua seed head. We're going to start seeing a lot more this

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Patrick McCullough: here in the winter and the springtime. The panicle inflorescence where it's got multiple

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Patrick McCullough: branches and this is also a great characteristic to determine Poa annua versus some of the other

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Patrick McCullough: grassy weeds we may have present in turf.

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Patrick McCullough: Grassy weeds also have a very distinct structure on the base of the leaf blade called ligules.

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Patrick McCullough: This is a structure that is found at the base of the leaf where it joins the stem.

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Patrick McCullough: Grassy weeds have typically a very distinct ligule that can help you determine the species if you do not have a seed head present.

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Patrick McCullough: Ligules can be tall, fleshy, white structures. They can be smooth there on the margins.

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Patrick McCullough: Some weeds like barnyardgrass on the top right of this slide do not have a distinct ligule where that structure is absent.

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Patrick McCullough: from the plant. So if you do not see a ligule, very good chance it could be barnyardgrass

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Patrick McCullough: in the summertime versus crabgrass that has a very similar appearance but has a fleshy

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Patrick McCullough: ligule often with a fringe of hairs there at the base of the leaf. So ligules are distinct

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Patrick McCullough: structures on grassy plants only, broadleaf weeds and sedges. We are not looking for ligules at the base of the

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Patrick McCullough: but good characteristic to help identify grassy weed species.

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Patrick McCullough: Broadleaf weeds often have distinct flowers. They can have colorful showy flowers like you see there on the top left with weeds like oxalis.

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Patrick McCullough: Other weeds like henbit, purple dead nettle, can have very small flowers but can be very

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Patrick McCullough: colorful, pink to purplish in color as the plant matures.

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Patrick McCullough: We can also use flowers to determine one species from another based on the color of the

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Patrick McCullough: petals on the flower. A good example here are the two day flowers where the species on the left has two blue petals and one white petal versus spreading day flower on the right that's got three blue petals. So good examples there where flowers can help you determine the species on broadleaf weed and the colors and the size of the flower also can be a good characteristic to help you identify a

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Patrick McCullough: broadleaf weed in your turfgrass. Broadleaf weeds, we can also take a look at how the

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Patrick McCullough: leaves are arranged on the stems. Some broadleaf weeds can have sort of the alternate arrangement

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Patrick McCullough: of leaves there on the stem. Some can also have the opposite arrangement where the leaves

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Patrick McCullough: sort of join together at the base of the stem of the plant.

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Patrick McCullough: So something else to consider as you are trying to key out weeds species.

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Patrick McCullough: This is how are the leaves arranged on the stem of the plant.

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Patrick McCullough: Some weeds have dense hairs all over the leaves and the stems like you see there on

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Patrick McCullough: the left with sticky chickweed.

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Patrick McCullough: And then some plants have a few hairs or are smooth like you see with common chickweed on

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Patrick McCullough: the right.

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Patrick McCullough: Common chickweed typically has soft hairs on the margin of the leaf.

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Patrick McCullough: versus sticky chickweed, which is generally covered with hairs on the leaves and stems.

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Patrick McCullough: Another good example where you can take a look at the hairs on the plant to help key out a grassy weed would be crabgrass.

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Patrick McCullough: We have various crabgrass species that are found in turfgrass in Georgia.

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Patrick McCullough: Smooth crabgrass gets its name because it is hairless.

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Patrick McCullough: Large crabgrass is covered with hairs all over the stems and all over the leaves.

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Patrick McCullough: And then southern crabgrass typically has hairy stems, hairy stolons, and has smooth leaves.

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Patrick McCullough: So another good example where the hairs on the plant can help you identify the species of the weed.

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Patrick McCullough: And then of course leaf markings, other characteristics to key out broadleaf weeds.

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Patrick McCullough: White clover on the left with the white markings on the base of the leaf

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Patrick McCullough: versus spotted burr clover on the right that has the purplish dot there in the center of the leaf.

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Patrick McCullough: This is important because we're looking at two different clover species.

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Patrick McCullough: One is a cool season perennial white clover versus the winter annual spotted burr clover.

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Patrick McCullough: Looking at characteristics, identifying the plant can help you determine when those weeds will emerge,

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Patrick McCullough: how they're going to grow, and how we can plan weed control programs around their lifecycle.

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Patrick McCullough: Right now we're seeing many winter annual weeds begin to germinate. We're already seeing species like henbits, weeds like annual bluegrass, bittercress, and hop clovers.

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Patrick McCullough: These are true winter annual weeds that are germinating in the fall. They are starting to grow actively in landscapes and in turfgrass.

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Patrick McCullough: These plants go to seed in the springtime and then they will complete their life cycle and then die out in the summertime.

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Patrick McCullough: And this is a good example of the annual life cycle that these weeds will grow for one year and then go to seed and then die out.

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Patrick McCullough: The advantage of this life cycle is that it is predictable.

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Patrick McCullough: We know when annual bluegrass begins to germinate in turfgrasses.

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Patrick McCullough: We know when crabgrass begins to germinate in the late winter and springtime.

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Patrick McCullough: And therefore, we can plan management programs around when these weeds begin to emerge in turfgrass.

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Patrick McCullough: And we can apply pre-emergent herbicides to prevent their establishment based on when these weeds begin to germinate

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Patrick McCullough: in the soil. Summer annual weeds include species like goosegrass, crabgrass, foxtail, sandbur.

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Patrick McCullough: Some of the broadleaf weeds that are true summer annuals include species like spotted spurge,

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Patrick McCullough: Doveweed, purslane, these are all weeds that germinate in the springtime.

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Patrick McCullough: They resume active growth throughout the summertime.

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Patrick McCullough: They go to seed in the fall and then they transition out and die out in the wintertime.

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Patrick McCullough: So they complete their lifecycle during the warm season of the year.

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Patrick McCullough: Perennial weeds are much more difficult to control in turfgrass than the annuals because these plants can germinate from seed, but they can also regrow from tap roots and below ground plant parts, stolons, rhizomes, and tubers.

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Patrick McCullough: Simple perennials can primarily be reproduced by a seed. We can partially control these plants by hand pulling and digging them out of the ground.

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Patrick McCullough: Pre-emergent herbicides can be effective, but they are often providing erratic levels of control.

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Patrick McCullough: because these plants can also emerge from below ground vegetative structures.

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Patrick McCullough: So perennials are less predictable on their establishment and their growth.

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Patrick McCullough: They are much more difficult to control than the annual weeds that we have in turfgrass.

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Patrick McCullough: A good example of a simple perennial that is starting to emerge in turf in the fall. Weeds like wild garlic, wild onion, they are emerging from not only seed, but they are also starting to establish from below ground bulbs.

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Patrick McCullough: that stay dormant during the summertime. As temperatures cool down, these plants will

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Patrick McCullough: then begin to reemerge and wild garlic can be a very troublesome weed and dormant turf

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Patrick McCullough: grasses during the wintertime. So typically, pre-emergent herbicides do not control plants

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Patrick McCullough: that are emerging from below ground vegetative structures, such as below ground bulbs like

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Patrick McCullough: we see with wild garlic.

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Patrick McCullough: Complex perennials are the most difficult weeds to control in turfgrass because they are going to survive multiple years. They primarily reproduce and spread through asexual reproduction, which includes

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Patrick McCullough: Stolens, rhizomes, tubers such as with the sedges. These weeds include species such as white clover, Canada thistle, ground ivy, bermudagrass, yellow nutsedge, purple nutsedge. These are all perennial weeds.

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Patrick McCullough: that are going to survive multiple years in our lawns and landscapes.

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Patrick McCullough: Management implications here, we can hand pull and dig some of these plants out of the ground,

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Patrick McCullough: but it's often not a long-term control strategy.

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Patrick McCullough: Because these plants can spread laterally, because they can produce runners, those plants can then create daughter plants and trying to dig those plants out of the ground, we often leave behind some of the stems and stolons that are present in a turf.

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Patrick McCullough: And when they're growing in patches, sometimes the best way to

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Patrick McCullough: control these species, especially in turf, is to come in with non-selective options such as roundup and

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Patrick McCullough: just treating the patch and then treating the area around the patch to ensure that you're getting all the surrounding

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Patrick McCullough: stems and stolons that may have

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Patrick McCullough: been created from that

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Patrick McCullough: main patch of the weed.

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Patrick McCullough: A good example here of a complex perennial is bermudagrass. This of course is a major

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Patrick McCullough: warm season turfgrass species, but if you had Bermuda growing in the middle of centipedegrass,

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Patrick McCullough: zoysiagrass, or fescue, or various other turf species, it can be a long-term invasive

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Patrick McCullough: weed species that can be a long-term invasive weed species.

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Patrick McCullough: and be very competitive with other turf species. And if it's not controlled early,

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Patrick McCullough: bermudagrass is going to spread from lateral stems and it will eventually have significant competition that can lead to

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Patrick McCullough: the need to renovate a lawn because selective control of bermudagrass is very difficult in many warm and cool season turfgrass species.

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Patrick McCullough: So it's important to routinely scout your turf. You know, identify weeds that may warrant

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Patrick McCullough: control, but also note new weed species that may be present. Early detection is very critical,

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Patrick McCullough: especially with perennial weeds. We want to get on top of these species as soon as possible,

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Patrick McCullough: get them removed, hand pull them out, treat herbicides if needed, and prevent their spread

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Patrick McCullough: populations because most of the time if a perennial weed is left uncontrolled it's going to over time

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Patrick McCullough: spread reproduce and create a long-term problem for us so detecting these weeds early on can be

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Patrick McCullough: very critical a good example would be something like purple nutsedge where if you have a few small

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Patrick McCullough: plants it's important to get those

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Patrick McCullough: controlled, get them removed because there will be significant reproduction below ground with tuber chains and that weed will continue to spread and

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Patrick McCullough: be a very severe infestation over time if it's left uncontrolled.

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Patrick McCullough: Also, as you are identifying new weed species present, it's important to evaluate turfgrass cultural practices that may need to be adjusted.

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Patrick McCullough: Oftentimes, when we see weeds that are starting to emerge or new weed species, they are taking advantage of the lack of competition from turfgrass growth.

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Patrick McCullough: And if we can make adjustments in mowing programs, fertility, modifying how much we irrigate,

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Patrick McCullough: this all can enhance turfgrass competition to reduce the overall spread and the population of weeds present in our turfgrass.

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Patrick McCullough: A good example of a cultural practice that will influence the population of a weed species

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Patrick McCullough: in a lawn is mowing height on crabgrass. This is very important in tall fescue where during

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Patrick McCullough: the summertime, tall fescue typically declines due to summer stress and crabgrass becomes

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Patrick McCullough: very competitive. But making a simple adjustment in the height of cut of a tall fescue lawn

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Patrick McCullough: can significantly increase the competition.

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Patrick McCullough: of tall fescue with crabgrass in the summertime. So this is a look at a study that was conducted in

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Patrick McCullough: North Carolina where they looked at four different mowing heights of tall fescue on the percent cover of crabgrass

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Patrick McCullough: in that lawn. And as you can see when they raised the mowing height from one to four inches,

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Patrick McCullough: they cut the crabgrass population down from 95% cover to basically 0%.

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Patrick McCullough: So as they increased the height of tall fescue, it became more competitive.

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Patrick McCullough: It was able to shade out crabgrass and they were able to basically prevent

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Patrick McCullough: the emergence of crabgrass because the fescue was so competitive.

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Patrick McCullough: So mowing height and mowing frequency can be very critical.

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Patrick McCullough: This will affect the competitive growth of turfgrasses

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Patrick McCullough: can help cut down on weed populations and which over time can of course help

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Patrick McCullough: cut down on the need to apply herbicides and various other management inputs. So

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Patrick McCullough: depending on the species that you're managing, there is an appropriate mower

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Patrick McCullough: and height of cut and mowing frequency.

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Patrick McCullough: to prevent scalping. So typically we want to remove no more than one-third of the

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Patrick McCullough: total leaf area with the mowing. And based on the turf species that could be

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Patrick McCullough: every five to seven days.

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Patrick McCullough: five to ten days for grass like centipede that doesn't grow quite as quickly as some

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Patrick McCullough: of the other warm season grasses. So something to consider is just make sure you are mowing

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Patrick McCullough: at the appropriate height and the appropriate frequency during active growth. And this will

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Patrick McCullough: just help promote the recovery of a lawn from a mowing operation and should help with promoting competition with weed species

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Patrick McCullough: And this was a three-year field study in Florida and you can see there where they watered every single day. They had about five to six

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Patrick McCullough: So how much we water will certainly influence the pressure and the growth of weeds like sedges,

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Patrick McCullough: which thrive in wet soils. White clover likes to have wet feet as well, so poorly drained, high irrigation,

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Patrick McCullough: For weeds in the wintertime, Poa Annua likes also to have wet soils. It's going to thrive in poorly drained areas.

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Patrick McCullough: making modifications in the frequency of the watering program, improving drainage, and also trying to relieve compaction,

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Patrick McCullough: trying to promote the health of the grass by core airification and minimizing compaction can also help reduce weed populations in your turfgrass as well.

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Patrick McCullough: Here's a picture of a tall fescue lawn that has a significant infestation of broadleaf

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Patrick McCullough: only that center plot, that center rectangle has broadleaf dock present.

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Patrick McCullough: Whereas all the other rectangles of different tall fescue cultivars are weed-free.

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Patrick McCullough: And this is a picture of a tall fescue NTEP trial where that specific seedlot that they seeded

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Patrick McCullough: a fescue lawn there where they bought basically the low quality seed and this can be an issue with a lot of the cheap seed that is sold in the big box retailers

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Patrick McCullough: when you are planting turfgrasses, not only from seed but sod as well. Looking at

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Patrick McCullough: new lawn. Pre-emergent herbicides are some of the most important tools that we have to prevent the establishment of weed species and turfgrass.

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Patrick McCullough: Pre-emergent herbicides are applied prior to weed seed germination. So we need to get these herbicides out in high enough concentration before we see the emergence of

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Patrick McCullough: Pre-emergent herbicides are applied to the soil. They are tightly bound to the upper half inch or so of the soil profile and they are not readily mobile in the soil. So they are bound and they typically stay put

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Patrick McCullough: It will then absorb that product

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Patrick McCullough: And most pre-emergent herbicides are going to tie up cell division.

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Patrick McCullough: taking the herbicide will fail to establish a healthy root system and they will die out.

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Patrick McCullough: Pre-emergent herbicides do not prevent weed seed germination.

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Patrick McCullough: So the weeds must first germinate. They must take in the herbicide through the roots and shoots. And that is how we control weeds prior to establishment with the use of a pre-emergent herbicide in a lawn and landscape.

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Patrick McCullough: Pre-emergent herbicides typically do not inhibit the root growth of well-established

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Patrick McCullough: Usually turfgrasses that are mature have a deep and healthy root system that penetrate

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Patrick McCullough: A lawn that has a three to four inch root depth on it typically will not be affected

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Patrick McCullough: Where we run into trouble with pre-emergent herbicides and turfgrass rooting is when we

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Patrick McCullough: when it's spreading a lateral stem or a stolon,

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Patrick McCullough: when it's trying to peg down in a bare ground situation. But generally speaking, well-established lawns, there's limited to no risk on the health of the root system using pre-emergent herbicides at appropriate label use rates.

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Patrick McCullough: We have a wide variety of pre-emergent herbicides that are available to turfgrass managers.

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Patrick McCullough: They're sold under a wide variety of trade names and they can also be found in various

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Patrick McCullough: Some of these can be impregnated on a fertilizer with a weed and feed type of application.

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Patrick McCullough: So some of these herbicides like Prodiamine and Pendimethalin, these are widely used for

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Patrick McCullough: pre-emergent crabgrass control in the late wintertime and in the spring.

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Patrick McCullough: We can also use these herbicides in late summer and fall to prevent the establishment of annual

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Patrick McCullough: So we can control annual bluegrass with a timely application of those herbicides as well in the fall.

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Patrick McCullough: However, pre-emergent herbicides generally do not provide acceptable levels of post-emergent weed control.

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Patrick McCullough: So once the weed has established, these products generally are not effective for controlling established weeds.

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Patrick McCullough: present in our turf. There are some active ingredients like isoxaben or

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Patrick McCullough: We are using pre-emergent herbicides to control summer and winter annual weeds only.

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Patrick McCullough: And pre-emergent herbicides are most effective for controlling weeds that are germinating from seed only.

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Patrick McCullough: because they are not effective once the plant has been established and is healthy and actively growing.

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Patrick McCullough: We need to irrigate behind these treatments to get them off of the shoots of turfgrass

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Patrick McCullough: by weed seedlings. So one of the concerns is that if you cannot irrigate and you don't have timely rainfall,

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Patrick McCullough: going out with a sprayable formulation could lead to potential failures because it's not getting into the soil and it's not getting activated as readily as a dry granule formulation.

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Patrick McCullough: We can have herbicide losses with a sprayable formulation where it fails to get to the soil,

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Patrick McCullough: Typically, we are looking at pre-emergent herbicide applications in March in most parts of the state of Georgia.

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Patrick McCullough: So in the springtime, we typically get our pre-emergent herbicide applications out when soil temperatures reach the low 50s.

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Patrick McCullough: in the upper two inches of the soil profile. And this is going to vary based on where you are in the state. So obviously the southern part of Georgia is going to warm up much earlier than the central and northern part of the state. And these dates are just general guidelines for

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Patrick McCullough: A very good website to track local soil temperatures, air temperatures, and growing degree days is georgiaweather.net.

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Patrick McCullough: Pre-emergent herbicides using turfgrass all have different lengths of residual activity.

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Patrick McCullough: labeled use rate. Products like prodiamine, oxadiazon at labeled rates are going to last

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Patrick McCullough: four to six months depending on the conditions, soil temperatures, and factors that are going to influence the

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Patrick McCullough: And that may be all you need if you need to come in and seed or sod in a treated area in

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Patrick McCullough: There are some products that will not last quite as long.

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Patrick McCullough: And then there may be cases such as in long care where you want the longest control possible.

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Patrick McCullough: So going with a Prodiamine treatment may be more appropriate there where you're trying

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Patrick McCullough: Winter annual weeds, we typically target getting pre-emergent herbicides out in September in most areas in the state.

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Patrick McCullough: South Georgia, typically we start looking at pre-emergent herbicide applications around the first week of October.

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Patrick McCullough: This is when soil temperatures start to dip below 70 degrees.

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Patrick McCullough: Weeds like annual bluegrass, henbit, we can see them germinate in mid-September, late September,

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Patrick McCullough: depending on where you are in the state. So this is just a general reference and a guideline to

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Patrick McCullough: One of the ways that we can extend the length of pre-emergent weed control is to apply split applications of a pre-emergent herbicide. So instead of putting out all the product at once, we can make multiple applications at a six to eight week interval.

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Patrick McCullough: A good example here is instead of applying Barricade or Prodiamine to one pound active ingredient per acre, putting that application into half a pound active applied in March and come back around late May or June with another half pound active per acre has shown to extend residual control greater than just putting out all the product at once.

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Patrick McCullough: We are able to get better control of the late season flushes of crabgrass and other annual

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Patrick McCullough: Helps provide a fresh supply of that herbicide to the soil and can extend the length of control

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Patrick McCullough: that control crabgrass and goosegrass also can provide pre-emergent control of weeds like annual bluegrass.

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Patrick McCullough: So crabgrass halts preventer, crabgrass preventer herbicide can also be used in the fall to control weeds like annual bluegrass.

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Patrick McCullough: So we have products like prodiamine, pendimethalin.

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Patrick McCullough: One of the most popular herbicides now in lawn care in Georgia and in golf course turf in parks as well is Specticle.

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Patrick McCullough: The active ingredient indaziflam is very good, very active on Poa annua.

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Patrick McCullough: And it also provides a different mode of action to the dinitroanilines that we are using for

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Patrick McCullough: Some of the concerns that we have right now especially with annual bluegrass is herbicide

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Patrick McCullough: And typically what we're seeing with weeds like annual bluegrass that have received the same herbicide in an area for multiple years is segregation in the population.

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Patrick McCullough: We are seeing a shift where we are seeing resistant biotypes emerging that are not responding

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Patrick McCullough: products or the same herbicide mode of action year over year, you can cause a shift in the weed population. We're seeing this right now,

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Patrick McCullough: especially with annual bluegrass and turfgrass throughout the state of Georgia where we're seeing resistance issues

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Patrick McCullough: that are increasing in lawns, golf courses, sod farms, and various turfgrass areas.

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Patrick McCullough: Herbicide resistance occurs through selection pressure.

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Patrick McCullough: This graph shows in year one where all the green plants present are controlled by a certain herbicide.

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Patrick McCullough: That one plant in year one could be one in a thousand, it could be one in a million, but over time with selection pressure,

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Patrick McCullough: using the same herbicide over and over, that one plant will spread, it will go to seed,

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Patrick McCullough: And over time, year two, year three, four, and five, we are shifting that population.

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Patrick McCullough: And then by year five, you've got a very serious problem where you are now dealing with a weed

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Patrick McCullough: Typically what is happening here is resistant weeds have an altered target site.

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Patrick McCullough: where the herbicide simply just does not bind the way it normally does to a

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Patrick McCullough: susceptible population. So the target site where that herbicide normally binds

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Patrick McCullough: on the right of this slide, that herbicide is obviously not going to bind

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Patrick McCullough: properly and therefore it is not controlled. And this is the most common

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Patrick McCullough: form of herbicide resistance in a weed. It is a naturally occurring

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Patrick McCullough: traits in that specific biotype. So we are not causing a change in the plant by using a herbicide, but what we are doing is selecting for biotypes that have that mutation present that prevents that herbicide from binding properly to get effective control.

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Patrick McCullough: This is a big problem right now for us in Georgia with Poa annua.

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Patrick McCullough: Annual bluegrass is one of the most difficult weeds to control,

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Patrick McCullough: probably the most troublesome weed for us in turfgrass,

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Patrick McCullough: especially in the wintertime.

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Patrick McCullough: We are seeing widespread resistance to dinitroaniline pre-emergent herbicides.

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Patrick McCullough: This includes some of the active ingredients like pendimethalin and prodiamine.

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Patrick McCullough: Some of the other herbicides that are group three mitotic inhibitors include

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Patrick McCullough: products like Dimension. This is widely used for crabgrass but it has a similar

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Patrick McCullough: mode of action to the dinitroanilines and what we're seeing in Georgia is that

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Patrick McCullough: Poa annua populations that are resistant to pendimethalin and

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Patrick McCullough: pro-diamine are also cross-resistant to Dimension.

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Patrick McCullough: mentioned as well. So that is a concern because these are very popular pre-emergent herbicides.

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Patrick McCullough: Here's a look at Barricade resistant Poa and some of our field research where we went out

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Patrick McCullough: with Barricade at the standard timing. This is Prodiamine.

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Patrick McCullough: And you can see we're getting very significant failures in control with that pre-emergent

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Patrick McCullough: treatment of barricade there where it just looks like we sprayed water.

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Patrick McCullough: There's just no response at all. What we are doing is testing plants to confirm resistance

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Patrick McCullough: the field. So what we are doing is growing these plants out hydroponically and exposing

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Patrick McCullough: them to various concentrations of a pre-emergent herbicide. And what we're typically doing is

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Patrick McCullough: coming in and cutting the roots off the plants and then sticking them in the tanks that have

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Patrick McCullough: hydroponic

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Patrick McCullough: solutions with or without the pre-emergent herbicide present. And if a weed is resistant

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Patrick McCullough: to dinitroaniline herbicides like Prodiamine, it will grow a nice healthy root system in

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Patrick McCullough: the presence of that herbicide in the hydroponic tank. And this is what we're seeing where weeds

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Patrick McCullough: are growing right through pre-emergent herbicides like Prodiamine. We're growing a nice healthy

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Patrick McCullough: root system there versus the

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Patrick McCullough: susceptible biotypes on the right that are completely controlled by that treatment,

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Patrick McCullough: which is showing very susceptible root systems there, growing in the presence of that pre-emergent herbicide.

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Patrick McCullough: Fall is a great time of year also to come out with post-emergent herbicides to

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Patrick McCullough: control annual bluegrass. That is when winter annual weeds,

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Patrick McCullough: poa, henbit, hop clovers, that's typically when we get the best control.

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Patrick McCullough: When these plants are at the seedling stage, they are most susceptible. Certain products like Katana

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Patrick McCullough: monuments, some of the sulfonylureas can provide very good post-emergent

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Patrick McCullough: control early in the fall and then it has enough residual to get through peak

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Patrick McCullough: winter annual weed germination periods. Here's a look at Katana, which is applied

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Patrick McCullough: in the fall and this picture was taken in March in

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Patrick McCullough: you can just see the pressure of the annual bluegrass that sort of surrounds that plot there.

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Patrick McCullough: So this can be a very good treatment to control seedling winter weeds at that fall timing.

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Patrick McCullough: Typically getting these treatments out around mid-November, sometime around Thanksgiving or so,

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Patrick McCullough: can get very good post-emergent control of the seedling weeds and get you through that peak germination period

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Patrick McCullough: that will hold throughout the season.

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Patrick McCullough: However, again, we are seeing sulfonylurea resistance like this, where we come in and

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Patrick McCullough: we're getting just segregation.

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Patrick McCullough: You come in and you get complete control of some plants and other plants are growing right

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Patrick McCullough: through those treatments.

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Patrick McCullough: And this is a widespread problem now in turfgrass throughout the southeast, specifically with

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Patrick McCullough: sulfonylurea herbicides, triazine herbicides, and the dinitroaniline pre-emergent herbicides

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Patrick McCullough: as well.

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Patrick McCullough: What we're seeing is sort of classic target site resistance with sulfonylurea herbicides

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Patrick McCullough: with annual bluegrass.

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Patrick McCullough: Here's a look at a resistant biotype that we tested in the greenhouse on the top versus

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Patrick McCullough: the local Griffin biotype on the bottom there, susceptible population to monument.

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Patrick McCullough: You can see where we started these rate titrations.

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Patrick McCullough: with the resistant biotype, the standard labeled use rate is half an ounce of product per acre.

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Patrick McCullough: We went up to about a 300x rate and there was simply just no response there from the plant.

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Patrick McCullough: So this is a classic target site resistance where no matter how much herbicide you apply to the plant,

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Patrick McCullough: because there's an altered mutated target site, it is just not going to bind properly and there's no response from the plant.

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Patrick McCullough: So what we did was looked at some resistance management programs for controlling annual bluegrass last fall.

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Patrick McCullough: These were done on three different golf courses that had expressed concerns over herbicide resistance issues.

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Patrick McCullough: And I think this kind of tells a nice story to show some of the plans and programs that you could...

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Patrick McCullough: use in warm season grasses to combat herbicide resistant

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Patrick McCullough: Poa this fall and winter in your turf.

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Patrick McCullough: At these three golf courses we apply barricade at the standard pre-emergent

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Patrick McCullough: timing.

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Patrick McCullough: At golf course one and two, we saw that we had resistance problems where we were not getting good control.

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Patrick McCullough: At golf course three, we had susceptible Poa, so we had actually very good control at that third golf course.

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Patrick McCullough: However, when we switched from barricade to a different mode of action, which is Specticle,

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Patrick McCullough: we got basically good to excellent control at all three locations.

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Patrick McCullough: So rotating modes of action, rotating chemistries from a dinitroaniline to a different chemistry Specticle was a great tool to get that DNA resistant Poa control at golf course 1 and 2.

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Patrick McCullough: We also found simazine resistance at golf course one and three.

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Patrick McCullough: However, golf course two did have simazine susceptible Poa annua.

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Patrick McCullough: We also tested revolver, which is a sulfonylurea herbicide.

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Patrick McCullough: At golf course one and three, we had susceptible Poa to that mode of action.

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Patrick McCullough: However, at golf course two, where simazine was working, we had resistance issues there using revolver.

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Patrick McCullough: And what we found was that when we came in with a combination of the revolver with Simazine, having those two modes of action gave us complete control of Poa at all the golf courses that we tested.

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Patrick McCullough: So, we're going to have to do that.

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Patrick McCullough: Really the take home message here is that rotating modes of action can be important,

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Patrick McCullough: but for post-emergent Poa control in Georgia,

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Patrick McCullough: especially in bermudagrass and zoysiagrass turf,

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Patrick McCullough: coming in with two modes of action,

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Patrick McCullough: Combining a sulfonylurea herbicide with a triazine herbicide, two different chemistries that offer different modes of action,

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Patrick McCullough: can help control biotypes with suspected resistance issues to one of those modes of action.

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Patrick McCullough: So the combination, this is a fairly cost-effective way to help combat resistance issues.

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Patrick McCullough: and help prevent the spread of biotypes with herbicide resistance as well.

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Patrick McCullough: So for controlling Poa annua in centipedegrass, mid-November, early December, timings of Katana,

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Patrick McCullough: which is a sulfonylurea herbicide, can work very well with Simazine. We can also use rimsulfuron,

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Patrick McCullough: which is TranXit, in non-residential areas with Simazine at a quart per acre.

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Patrick McCullough: Having that simazine in there is a nice kicker to using sulfonylureas.

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Patrick McCullough: It is about a $5 per acre treatment and can provide a second mode of action in the mix with a sulfonylurea to help combat resistance.

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Patrick McCullough: Curb can also be used in non-residential turfgrass at that late November timing.

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Patrick McCullough: One and a half pounds active ingredient per acre can also help control Poa annua at that timing,

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Patrick McCullough: and it provides a different mode of action.

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Patrick McCullough: and then most other post-emergent herbicides used in turfgrass.

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Patrick McCullough: And then pre-emergent control, obviously, in September, the first week of October, depending

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Patrick McCullough: on where you are in the state, dinitroanilines, rotating as Specticles as possible, and lawns

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Patrick McCullough: and landscapes is a very good program to prevent the establishment of Poa in turf.

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Patrick McCullough: Here's a look at centipedegrass that was treated with the tank mixtures and you can

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Patrick McCullough: see using simazine with Katana, using it with rimsulfuron, it has shown to be safe

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Patrick McCullough: at that application time again in late fall. So as the grass is slowing down we can use

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Patrick McCullough: those combinations safely as long as the centipede is healthy and is not

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Patrick McCullough: growing under pressure from disease or other stresses, those

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Patrick McCullough: tank mixture combinations can be very effective for

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Patrick McCullough: controlling Poa and can be safe in that species.

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Patrick McCullough: For controlling Poa in Bermudagrass and Zoysiagrass, again sulfonylurea

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Patrick McCullough: urea herbicides applied with simazine is a great program. We've got a

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Patrick McCullough: lot more sulfonylureas that are safe for use in these

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Patrick McCullough: two turf species, products like Revolver, Monument, Katana, Tribute Total, those are all

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Patrick McCullough: sulfonylurea, ALS inhibiting herbicides, but having that second mode of action in there with

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Patrick McCullough: Simazine can make a big difference whether or not you're successful for controlling Poa,

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Patrick McCullough: Curb also again non-residential sites one and a half pounds active ingredient per acre and then pre-emergent control if possible in the fall is going to set you up for success for controlling Poa in those lawns.

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Patrick McCullough: We're also seeing resistance issues now with

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Patrick McCullough: Sedges, this is a look at Cyperus compressus annual sedge, which is a true summer annual, goes to seed.

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Patrick McCullough: We are seeing problems with multiple populations found throughout the state of

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Patrick McCullough: halosulfuron-resistant sedge, and it's also cross-resistant to other sulfonylureas.

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Patrick McCullough: So rotating modes of action there, coming in with sulfentrazone or Dismiss,

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Patrick McCullough: Having Basagran as a tank mix partner can also help combat resistance issues with ALS resistance sedges that we're seeing in the state.

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Patrick McCullough: There is also other sedge species that have confirmed resistance to post-emergent applications of sulfonylureas.

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Patrick McCullough: Products like halosulfuron or SedgeHammer, we have seen resistance with yellow nutsedge and various other sedge species that we can also find in turfgrass.

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Patrick McCullough: These have been reported in various cropping systems throughout the southeast.

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Patrick McCullough: Ways to combat resistance with sedges, again using Dismiss, which is a different mode of action.

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Patrick McCullough: sulfentrazone, 10 to 12 ounces of product per acre in a tank mixture with sulfonylureas.

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Patrick McCullough: can help control resistant biotypes and help delay the spread of resistance in sedge populations.

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Patrick McCullough: Basagran can also be used.

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Patrick McCullough: And we do have some pre-emergent herbicides that will control certain sedge species.

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Patrick McCullough: Products like Ronstar in non-residential turf.

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Patrick McCullough: Products like Echelon and Dismiss that contain sulfentrazone going out in late springtime with those treatments can provide pre-emergent control of sedges, such as annual sedge, yellow nutsedge, and certain kyllinga species.

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Patrick McCullough: species as well. And then we do have other pre-emergent herbicides that are labeled in

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Patrick McCullough: warm season turfgrasses like pennant, tower, and Freehand that also have very good activity

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Patrick McCullough: for pre-emergent control of said species.

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Patrick McCullough: Other herbicide resistant weeds that we have found in turf include goosegrass, which has

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Patrick McCullough: we found multiple populations with resistance to pre and post-emergent herbicides that are

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Patrick McCullough: popular in turfgrass. Spotted spurt, ryegrass, plantain, southern crabgrass. So this is an

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Patrick McCullough: issue that will continue to

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Patrick McCullough: be a problem for us in turfgrass. Something that turf managers need to have an appreciation for is how weeds develop resistance to herbicides and what we can do to be proactive in preventing resistance from becoming a long-term problem.

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Patrick McCullough: And sometimes we don't have alternative herbicide chemistries that are safe and selected for controlling resistant biotypes.

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Patrick McCullough: And that creates great concern for us.

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Patrick McCullough: But we are now seeing more and more weed species with resistance issues.

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Patrick McCullough: It's just something that you need to have an appreciation for, especially for weeds like

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Patrick McCullough: Poa annua, where it is just so difficult to control now.

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Patrick McCullough: We need to have multiple programs and rotation of herbicides and the modes of action that

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Patrick McCullough: are going out in weed control programs.

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Patrick McCullough: All right, new herbicides that are coming out here in 2018. The first one is a new active

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Patrick McCullough: ingredient from Dow called halauxifen. This is a synthetic auxin herbicide group 4 broadleaf

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Patrick McCullough: product that provides post-emergent control of annual and perennial broadleaf weeds.

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Patrick McCullough: It has very fast activity. halauxifen is a fast active ingredient. We typically see the response

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Patrick McCullough: in susceptible broadleaf weeds within about five to seven days. Very rapid browning and necrosis of the

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Patrick McCullough: of the tissue on the plant. It has favorable characteristics for turfgrass and also sod

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Patrick McCullough: production where it has rapid degradation. There's no composting issues so it has a favorable

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Patrick McCullough: characteristic for us in lawns and landscapes. The first product that's going to be released

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Patrick McCullough: from Dow that contains halauxifen is going to be called RELZAR. This is a combination with

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Patrick McCullough: Broadleaf herbicide with a different mode of action,

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Patrick McCullough: florasulam, which is found in the product Defender.

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Patrick McCullough: This will be released as a WG formulation

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Patrick McCullough: in the second quarter of 2018.

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Patrick McCullough: It's going to be used in all major warm and cool season turfgrasses for post-emergent broadleaf weed control.

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Patrick McCullough: And they're going to keep it simple. It's going to have one labeled use rate, which is 0.72 ounces of product per acre.

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Patrick McCullough: That's going to be the standard use rate for all labeled turfgrass species.

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Patrick McCullough: And this will be a good tool, I think, for us in Georgia, because it's going to include...

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Patrick McCullough: centipede, bermuda, zoysiagrass, fescue. So if you're managing lawns with mixed

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Patrick McCullough: species or if you need to make up a tank and spray multiple lawns of various turf

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Patrick McCullough: species, this product will have a nice fit for that use.

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Patrick McCullough: Again, this product has very rapid activity. This is four weeks after treatments for controlling

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Patrick McCullough: common chickweed in the winter time where many broadleaf weed products are slow with cold temperatures

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Patrick McCullough: there in the winter. Very rapid knockdown control with RELZAR applied in the winter for controlling

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Patrick McCullough: common chickweed. Very active on broadleaf weeds as well in the summertime

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Patrick McCullough: weeds like buttonweed, matchweed here in St. Augustinegrass and it should

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Patrick McCullough: have a good fit for use in the summertime for controlling weeds like doveweed.

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Patrick McCullough: some activity on common lespedeza, but it's not going to be a standalone product.

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Patrick McCullough: But there's going to be some weeds like plantain and dandelion, which can provide

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Patrick McCullough: very rapid knockdown control with a single treatment.

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Patrick McCullough: Game On is another new product from Dow that's going to

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Patrick McCullough: contain halauxifen. This is a three-way combination with 2,4-D choline and

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Patrick McCullough: fluroxypyr. It will also be released in 2018.

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Patrick McCullough: They're going to primarily target game on for using cool season grasses.

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Patrick McCullough: Most warm season species like

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Patrick McCullough: centipede and St. Augustine are going to have sensitivity issues to 2,4-D.

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Patrick McCullough: So it's going to be a cool season grass, tall fescue, Kentucky bluegrass, ryegrass product.

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Patrick McCullough: We can use it in bermudagrass and zoysiagrass and this product provides very

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Patrick McCullough: rapid knockdown control of perennial broadleaf weeds and I think it's going to be a strong

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Patrick McCullough: new combination product for us in turfgrass. Here's a look at dandelion four days after

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Patrick McCullough: treatments with game on. Very rapid necrosis discoloration there of the plant and we see

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Patrick McCullough: Broadleaf weeds like dandelion and plantain twist up within about seven days.

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Patrick McCullough: So very rapid control of susceptible broadleaf weeds to these active ingredients.

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Patrick McCullough: There can be some bermudagrass injury from game on, which can last two weeks or so at labeled use rates.

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Patrick McCullough: There can be some off-coloring, especially during spring transition, but this treatment will probably have a good fit for mid-summer applications after

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Patrick McCullough: the bermudagrass has resumed active growth, it's greened up, and it's healthy, should have good tolerance to those treatments.

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Patrick McCullough: RELZAR and Game On have shown very good activity for controlling doveweed, which is a very problematic weed for us in Georgia right now.

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Patrick McCullough: You can see here the percent cover with RELZAR on the left and Game On there in the middle, compared to Celsius. Very comparable levels of activity to Celsius.

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Patrick McCullough: and therefore controlling doveweed in the summertime.

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Patrick McCullough: And you can see what the non-treated is doing on the far right where the population is going to increase over time.

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Patrick McCullough: So new tools in the toolbox for controlling problem weeds, especially doveweed,

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Patrick McCullough: which I think is going to be one of the most promising uses of these new products coming out from Dow here next year.

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Patrick McCullough: The next new product that contains halauxifen that's going to be released in late 2018 is called Switchblade.

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Patrick McCullough: This is a three-way combination product similar to Game On, except they replaced the 2,4-D choline with dicamba.

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Patrick McCullough: So it's going to contain the new active ingredient, halauxifen, has a rapid knockdown control, dicamba and fluroxypyr.

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Patrick McCullough: This will be labeled in most major warm season turfgrasses including centipedegrass and cool season grasses.

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Patrick McCullough: It will also have a St. Augustinegrass use on the label as well.

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Patrick McCullough: And again, very good three-way combination for controlling many troublesome perennial broadleaf weeds and turfgrass.

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Patrick McCullough: The next new active ingredient that's going to be released in 2018 in turfgrass is called pyrimisulfan. This is going to be a combination product with penoxsulam and sold as a trade name Vexis.

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Patrick McCullough: This will be released again in 2018.

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Patrick McCullough: This product is a combination of two ALS inhibiting herbicides.

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Patrick McCullough: So the same mode of action as sulfonylureas.

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Patrick McCullough: And it will come out as a granular product.

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Patrick McCullough: So it's going to be a spreadable product.

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Patrick McCullough: Likely going to have a fertilizer carrier on it.

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Patrick McCullough: The potential uses is going to be for warm season grasses.

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Patrick McCullough: This combination product, Vexis, will control broadleaf weeds.

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Patrick McCullough: It does have good activity on many sedges as well, but it's weak on crabgrass and goosegrass

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Patrick McCullough: and some of the grassy weeds that we have in the summertime.

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Patrick McCullough: But the advantage of using Vexis is going to be the root uptake.

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Patrick McCullough: You don't have to have dew on the plant for it to stick and provide control.

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Patrick McCullough: So you can go out on dry turf, spread it, and both of these active ingredients have significant

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Patrick McCullough: root uptake and you can still get very good weed control with this product without dew present.

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Patrick McCullough: Here's a look at some of our plots where we've researched Vexis over the years with the fertilizer carrier.

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Patrick McCullough: We have seen very good control of winter annual broadleaf weeds in our plots.

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Patrick McCullough: Weeds like parsley-piert, cudweed, some of those types of weeds that are starting to emerge right now.

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Patrick McCullough: Vexis has very good activity on those species. And then of course the fertilizer can give a little greening effect.

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Patrick McCullough: following those treatments. We have seen some erratic levels for controlling annual bluegrass.

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Patrick McCullough: So I don't think this is going to be a very good Poa herbicide, but the strength is going

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Patrick McCullough: to be primarily broadleaf weeds in warm season turfgrasses, especially winter and annual

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Patrick McCullough: weeds with those fall treatments.

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Patrick McCullough: Here's a look at Prodiamine in those plots where we got very good Poa control, but basically released lawn burweed. We've seen that barricade and Prodiamine when we select for annual grassy weeds, we can actually enhance the establishment of some of the weeds that are not susceptible to that mode of action.

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Patrick McCullough: lawn burweed, as you can see in those plots, is not controlled by Barricade applications.

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Patrick McCullough: So using a product like Barricade with Vexis or different broadleaf herbicide is going to

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Patrick McCullough: be important if you're targeting both grassy and broadleaf weeds in the fall.

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Patrick McCullough: One of the advantages with Vexis is that it has very good activity for controlling sedges.

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Patrick McCullough: Here's just a look at some of our research in the greenhouse where we looked at

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Patrick McCullough: the control of biotypes that are susceptible and resistant

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Patrick McCullough: to sulfonylurea herbicides.

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Patrick McCullough: And Vexis is there on the right with its experimental code number there.

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Patrick McCullough: Very good activity on susceptible biotype to sulfonylureas.

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Patrick McCullough: It also has some activity for controlling resistant biotypes there on the right

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Patrick McCullough: You can see the activity on the ALS resistance edge, and this product is showing good activity for partial suppression.

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Patrick McCullough: I think multiple applications may have a nice fit with other chemistries for controlling the sedge populations with resistance issues to sulfonylurea.

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Patrick McCullough: Although this is the same mode of action as the sulfonylurea, Vexis has one of the active

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Patrick McCullough: ingredients from a different chemical family and that difference in the binding is giving

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Patrick McCullough: partial control of resistant biotypes to sulfonylurea herbicides.

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Patrick McCullough: So another tool in the toolbox, I guess, for managing resistant weeds in turfgrass.

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Patrick McCullough: The next new product is a trade name called Solero. The active ingredient is a

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Patrick McCullough: mesosulfuron. This is a product being sold by Nufarm that was released about a

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Patrick McCullough: year or two ago. This was developed by Valent over the years. It's now sold by Nufarm.

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Patrick McCullough: It is labeled for all major warm and cool season turfgrasses. It controls annual and perennial sedges, comparable levels of control to monument and certainty for controlling perennial sedges in kyllinga.

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Patrick McCullough: It also does have some activity for controlling broadleaf weeds.

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Patrick McCullough: So just something to have an appreciation for.

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Patrick McCullough: Solero is out there.

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Patrick McCullough: It has comparable levels of use or use patterns as SedgeHammer, halosulfuron, for use in

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Patrick McCullough: both warm and cool season turfgrasses.

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Patrick McCullough: It has very good activity for controlling many different sedge species and turf.

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Patrick McCullough: Dismiss NXT is another new product that was released in the turfgrass industry this year.

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Patrick McCullough: This was brought to the market by FMC in their line of sulfentrazone products.

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Patrick McCullough: This is a combination of sulfentrazone, which is the active ingredient in Dismiss,

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Patrick McCullough: with carfentrazone, which is the active ingredient in Quicksilver.

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Patrick McCullough: And the benefits of using carfentrazone in the mix with this product is the speed of control.

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Patrick McCullough: We are getting much... we are getting rapid control of sedges, kyllinga with Dismiss NXT.

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Patrick McCullough: It's labeled for most major warm and cool season turfgrasses.

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Patrick McCullough: And we are using Dismiss NXT on the same spectrum of weeds that we use Dismiss for.

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Patrick McCullough: So the sedges and kyllinga, certain broadleaf weeds as well, does have some activity on goosegrass.

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Patrick McCullough: But Dismiss NXT provides rapid control of kyllinga, seven days after treatments like you see there,

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Patrick McCullough: very fast takedown and response of Dismiss NXT.

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Patrick McCullough: those types of weeds. However, we are not seeing a significant difference in the levels of control, long-term control, with Dismiss NXT compared to straight Dismiss. So the speed of control with Dismiss NXT, I think, is the

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Patrick McCullough: major advantage here, but in terms of it being better than Dismiss, we just do not have data

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Patrick McCullough: to support that claim. But still, good product, rapid control, and sometimes getting that response

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Patrick McCullough: from the weeds can make your clients happy, can make homeowners happy, and that rapid activity

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Patrick McCullough: is certainly nice to see after you make those applications.

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Patrick McCullough: And finally, we are testing a new three-way combination product that should be released

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Patrick McCullough: next year from a company called Sipcam.

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Patrick McCullough: This is a three-way combination product for a simazine, imazaquin, and prodiamine.

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Patrick McCullough: product called Coastal. This is going to be simazine and imazaquin, which is going to

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Patrick McCullough: have post-emergent activity for controlling broadleaf weeds and sedges. They will also

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Patrick McCullough: control Poa annua. So having two chemistries in there for post-emergent Poa control is nice.

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Patrick McCullough: It has two different modes of action. And then Prodiamine, which is a barricade for the

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Patrick McCullough: residual pre-emergent control of the plant.

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Patrick McCullough: weeds in there as well. So it's a pre-emergent plus post-emergent treatment.

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Patrick McCullough: We have seen very good control of winter annual weeds like Clover,

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Patrick McCullough: Poa annua, and various other winter annual broadleaf weeds in our test plots. As you can

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Patrick McCullough: see here from Coastal and with the Prodiamine in the mix with those spring treatments we can get

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Patrick McCullough: very good crabgrass control as well throughout the year. So I think we're going to start seeing

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Patrick McCullough: a lot more of these combination products that are combining multiple chemistries that provide both

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Patrick McCullough: pre and post-emergent weed control, different modes of action as well there to combat resistant weeds

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Patrick McCullough: and Coastal is going to be the first of many of these types of combinations that will be

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Patrick McCullough: coming out for the turfgrass industry.

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Patrick McCullough: So with that, I conclude my presentation.

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Patrick McCullough: Thank you for your attendance

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Patrick McCullough: and hope to see you guys sometime soon.

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Patrick McCullough: Thank you so much.

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Patrick McCullough: *music*