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Envu expands turf management portfolio with new Tarvecta fungicide

Tarvecta works on multiple difficult diseases as a combination of two important active ingredients, fluoxastrobin and flutriafol.

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Envu to host free webinar on turfgrass root disease management

The complementary webinar will take place May 8, 2025, from 11 a.m.-noon EST.

From green to gray: Gray leaf spot produces spores that can be spread by the weather, lawn equipment or even just walking on it. (Photos: Courtesy of Quali-Pro; Getty Images: DNY59 / E+, boschettophotography / iStock / Getty Images Plus)

Spot this problem early

The season is almost over, but gray leaf spot isn’t.

FMC Corp. to host First Friday lawn care webinar

“Why is My Lawn Brown” focuses on proper methods for diagnosing brown patches that occur in turfgrass landscapes.

Pink snow mold can grow any time grass is wet and soil temperatures dip below 40 degrees F. (Photo: Paul Koch)

Stop snow mold in its tracks this year

Understanding the causes, symptoms and preventive measures for snow mold is crucial for maintaining a healthy and aesthetically pleasing lawn.

Summer patch-infected turf declines for one to two weeks, turning yellow or straw brown and eventually collapsing to the soil surface. (Photo: Rutgers University, PBI-Gordon Corp)

Turf School: Riding through the rough patch

Learn more about brown and summer patch, a pair of cool-season turf killers.

Pink snow mold, characterized by the color of its patch edges, targets both blade and root in affected grass. (Photo: Nufarm)

What you need to know about pink snow mold

Experts share the ways pink snow mold can wreak havoc on turfgrass.

Gray snow mold develops under snow cover. The longer the snow cover, the larger the patches. (Photo: Paul Koch, Ph.D.)

Do you know when you should think about snow mold control?

Learn the appropriate timing to treat for gray snow mold and prevent spring damage.

Dollar spot (Photo: PBI-Gordon Corp.)

University of Delaware researches new treatment for dollar spot

A beneficial microbe shows promising results as an antifungal agent against the pathogen that causes dollar spot.

For Pythium blight to take hold in a lawn, it needs three key factors: a susceptible host, the right environmental conditions and the disease to be present. (Photo: PBI-Gordon)

How to keep Pythium blight out of your turf

Pros in the industry share tips on how to identify and prevent the most common and destructive turfgrass disease.

Lawn care operators have several control options to tackle summer, large and brown patch. With different strains of large patch, LCOs will need to deploy different controls strategies. (Photo: Mary Ann Hansen, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Bugwood.org )

The causes and cures of summer, large and brown patch

These devastating diseases can hit your customers’ yards this year. Mike Kenna shares what to keep a look out for.

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