Disease Reports

2021

Rounding All the Bases (10/22/21)

• A New "Old" Spot (9/24/21
• It's Still Brown Patch on Tall Fescue (9/2/21)
• See Spot Run (8/10/21)
• No Drowning the 'Todes (7/22/21)
• Quench the Grass, Not the Disease (6/25/21)
• N-ecessary (6/2/21)
• On the Precipice (5/20/21)
• A Call to Arms (4/29/21)
• Go Time (4/9/21)
• The Ides of Mush (3/16/21)

2020

• Water and Winter (12/9/20)
• It's Virtually Winter (10/23/20)
• Preventive Plan for Spring (9/18/20)
• SSSSeptember (8/21/20)
• Smoke on the Turfgrass (7/31/20)
• Chicken and The Egg (7/17/20)
• Be Like Water (6/25/20)
• Yellow Submarine Spring (6/1/20)
• Rorschach Grass (4/30/20)
• Hunker Down, Height Up (4/10/20)
• A Step Into Spring (3/4/20)

2019

• Late Hits (11/8/19)
• Working the Late Shift (10/9/19)
• A Spot of Gray (9/20/19)
• Advantage: Anthracnose (8/29/19)
• Pull a Punch? (8/15/19)
• When Bentgrass Bonks (7/25/19)
• Fireworks Past the 4th (7/11/19)
• Storms before the Storm? (6/28/19)
• The Raging 'Todes (6/4/19)
• The Spring Pythium Ninja (5/14/19)
• Panic or Patience? (4/23/19)
• The Spring Hall Monitor (4/5/19)
• Keep An Eye on Spring Swings (3/21/19)

2018

• Summer Snarl Showing in September (10/5/18)
• Fall or a Slow Slide? (9/20/18)
• A Flurry at Summer's Finish (8/28/18)
• Water – The Monster Under the Bed (7/27/18)
• June's Fire = Hard Work (7/3/18)
• Have a Slice (6/8/18)
• First Summer Sip From a Fire Hose (5/24/18)
• From Freezer to Grill Grate (5/10/18)
• Just a Bit Outside (4/23/18)
• Obey Your Mother (3/28/18)
• Delayed Start (2/28/18)

2017

• Dry Fall Could Spell Winter Troubles (12/13/17)
• Prepare for Spring Ghouls (10/11/17)
• Seed Needs Don't Stop When You Leave (9/15/17)
• Good Time to Be Cool (9/1/17)
• Dancing Faeries (8/11/17)
• Double Double Toil & Trouble (7/28/17)
• Lawn Dormancy Looms (7/13/17)
• Et tu, Zoysia? (6/30/17)
• Chicken or the Egg? (6/13/17)
• Anthracnose Ante Raised (5/26/17)
• When Rain Falls Above, Check Down Below (5/11/17)
• Prevent Pathogen Foes' Fires (4/14/17)
• Is It a March or a Climb? (3/27/17)
• No Missouri for the Old Man (3/3/17)

2016

• The Gift of Education (12/5/16)
• A Season in Extra Innings (11/4/16)
• One Swing Should Wait 'til Spring (9/22/16)
• Is Water Stuck on Its Perch? (9/8/16)
• Summer's Sting Subsides (8/23/16)
• No Good Deed in a Root Sous-vide (7/28/16)
• A Fluid Situation (7/12/16)
• The Turf is on Fire (06/27/16)
• Time to Take Stock (06/09/16)
• Pool is Open for Pythium Root Rot (5/26/16)
• No Large Patch Leap Caused by Late Spring N (5/2/16)
• In the Strike Zone (4/13/16)
• A Spring Stone for Several Birds (3/29/16)
• Will Warm Weather = March Madness? (3/15/16)
• Getting Itchy... (3/01/16)

2015

• Late Fall Invaders (10/30/15)
• The Hunt for a Wet October (9/30/15)
• Summer Feeling Starting to Fall (9/18/15)
• Aerification Doesn't PreVENT Recovery (8/24/15)
• Rhizoc, Rinse, Repeat (7/28/15)
• Summer Rises (7/13/15)
• Of Mycelium & Men (6/24/15)
• Like a Dog Off a Leash (6/8/15)
• ETRIs on the Attack (5/27/15)
• The Stage is Set (5/11/15)
• Big Focus on Large Patch (4/27/15)
• Diseases Awaken Early (4/14/15)
• The Signs of Spring (3/30/15)
• Tracking the Temps (3/16/15)

2014

• The Magic of MoGIC (12/5/14)
• Preparing for Jack Frost (10/23/14)
• Fall or Spring: Which Patch Looms Larger? (9/26/14)
• Late Rain + Heat = Woes (9/12/14)
• School's In, But Summer Isn't Over (8/27/14)
• Bent on Anthracnose (8/19/14)
• No Jacket Necessary for $ Spot (7/31/14)
• The Zoysia Zeitgeist (7/17/14)
• Count Your Fingers & Your 'Todes (7/3/14)
• Diseases a Plenty (6/19/14)
• Passing the Torch (6/4/14)
• Pythium Rots Away in May (5/27/14)
• Warm Season Woes (5/8/14)
• Pounce on a Preventive Ounce (4/22/14)
• Sleepy Spring Awakens (4/9/14)
• Winter's Wrath Apparent (3/25/14)
• Spring Will Arrive... (3/12/14)

2013

• Conference Season is Here!! (12/4/13)
• The Fall Stage is Set (10/21/13)
• Large Patch Prevention & Fall Bugs (10/3/13)
• 70F Soil Temp = Go Time (9/19/13)
• Fall Starts w/Summer Diseases (9/5/13)
• Where's Spot? All Over. (8/22/13)
• Preventing Con-Air (8/8/13)
• More P = More Poa (7/25/13)
• Hunting Billbug Outbreak in MO (7/12/13)
• July's Summer Stressors (7/7/13)
• And, Here, We, Go... (6/18/13)
• Treading Cold Water (6/6/13)
• Rhizattackin' both cool & warm season grasses (5/21/13)
• Ducks, Dandelions & Pythium (5/9/13)
• Large Patch Warning (04/24/13)
• April Showers = Spring Disease? (4/11/13)
• The Thresholds Are Coming!! (4/02/13)
• A Chilly Eve of Spring (3/19/13)

2012

• Snow Mold to Fear? (11/09/12)
• Already a Rhiz-"Octoberfest" (9/26/12)
• Just Add Water (9/17/12)
• Isaac in MO Hooray!, Pythium Root Rot not OK (8/30/12)
• Weather is Mild; $ Spot Running Wild (8/20/12)
• Bugs Putting the Chinch on Zoysia in St. Louis (8/6/12)
• School's Not Out for Summer Patch (7/24/12)
• 90 Degree Highs (the "New Cool") & Field Day (7/8/12)
• Weather & Nematodes Have Golf Greens in Knots (7/1/12)
• Shorter Days, Shorter Roots & Root Rot (6/22/12)
• Time to Hunt the Hunting Billbug Grub (6/13/12)
• A Burning Ring of Spring (6/5/12)
• Very Warm & Dry (5/22/12)
• Don't Feed Your Lawn Now, Don't Feed It!! (5/7/12)
• A Tale of Two Cities (4/27/12)
• The Cooler (4/13/12)
• Not an April Fool's Joke (3/29/12)
• March Madness & Avid for Ring Nematodes (3/16/12)
• Will Warm Winter = Mad March? (3/9/12)

2011

• Fall Officially Arrives (9/19/11)
• A Shift in Disease Focus (9/12/11)
• Turf Recovery + Football: It's About Time! (9/01/11)
• Light at the End of the Tunnel? (8/17/11)
• Fan Impact (7/29/11)
• Staying Out of Hot Water (7/22/11)
• The (Disease) Boys Are Back in Town (7/13/11)
• Summer Officially Starts (6/26/11)
• Crazy Tillers (6/13/11)
• The Summer Switch (6/02/11)
• Wet Spring Sets Up Summer Turf Disease (5/26/11)
• SDS, Red Thread, & A Cool Breeze (5/16/11)
• Dollar Spot Arrives & Large Patch Recovery (5/5/11)
• Does Wet + Cool = Turf Disease? (4/27/11)
• Aphids & Spring Preventive Fungicides - the WHY (4/20/11)
• Spring Preventive Fungicides - the HOW is NOW (4/13/11)
• Spring Preventive Fungicides - the WHAT (4/6/11)
• Spring Preventive Fungicides - the WHEN (4/1/11)
• Spring has Sprung (3/24/11)
• Moles - n - Voles - n - Gophers (3/18/11)
• (Not A) Disease Report - Crabgrass Pre-Emerge (3/11/11)
• Disease Report - Yellow Patch (3/4/11)
• 2011 Winter Disease Report - Snow Molds (2/18/11)