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Study finds optimal ratios of kentucky bluegrass, perennial ryegrass for seed blend
LINCOLN, NE - Turfgrass professionals have created seed mixes specifically blended to ensure disease and insect resistance, water use efficiency, and tolerance to traffic. For example, a commonly used mixture of kentucky bluegrass (KBG) and perennial ryegrass (PRG) seed offers advantages such as rapid germination and establishment and provides turf cover that can compete with weeds. A new study shows how initial composition of KBG:PRG in the seed mixture affects species composition over multiple years in the Midwest, and offers recommendations about seeding ratios for optimal results.
Although the KBG:PRG seed blend is popular with consumers, both types of seeds have distinct advantages and drawbacks. Despite its ability to germinate quickly, perennial ryegrass is susceptible to numerous diseases when grown in humid regions of the Midwest United States, and can become thin during the heat and humidity of late summer or when subjected to winter stresses. Kentucky bluegrass is slow to germinate and establish, but is desirable in the long term because it spreads by rhizomes, is relatively drought tolerant, and will accommodate a wide range of management systems. Christopher Proctor and Zachary Reicher from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Daniel Weisenberger from Purdue University, published a study in HortScience that provides new recommendations for initial composition of the common seed mixture.
"Landscape contractors are pressured to deliver lawns from seed quickly for customer satisfaction," the authors said. "However, few studies have evaluated how initial composition of KBG:PRG in the seed mixture affects species composition over multiple years in the humid Midwest, just north of the transition zone of adaptability between cool- and warm-season turfgrasses." Proctor, Reicher, and Weisenberger studied the establishment and species composition after 3 years of a turf stand seeded with different ratios of KBG and PRG maintained as a lawn. They conducted experiments in West Lafayette, Indiana, using seed mixtures of KBG:PRG of 100:0, 90:10, 80:20, 70:30, 50:50, and 0:100 of pure live seed. The plots were seeded in late August, and the researchers rated speed of cover for 6 weeks after seeding and also percent KBG in the stand in August for 3 years. According to the authors, analyses showed that 100% PRG, 50:50, 70:30, or 80:20 KBG:PRG ratio had the highest percentage turf cover at 6 weeks after seeding during establishment because of the quick germinating and establishing PRG. This was especially important in 2007, when late summer heat stimulated late summer crabgrass germination. Regardless of turf cover during establishment, all treatments except 100% PRG shifted to greater than 95% KBG cover by 3 years after establishment.
"For the region in which our study was conducted, it may be desirable to seed with a higher proportion (greater than 50%) of PRG to speed initial establishment for customer satisfaction, erosion control, and/or to offset years with high weed pressure," the authors said. "Under lawn conditions similar to our study, seeding ratios with high KBG (80:20 or 90:10 KBG:PRG) will likely shift to a stand composition of greater than 95% KBG within 2 years, whereas all other ratios lower in KBG will likely shift similarly within 3 years."
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The complete study and abstract are available on the ASHS HortScience electronic journal web site:
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West Coast and new captain Shannon Hurn face an anxious wait to see whether Domain Stadium will be ready for training this month.
The West Australian Football Commission say it will work to ensure the West Coast Eagles will be able to commence training at Domain Stadium in two weeks, despite reports there could be a delay after Friday's One Direction concert.
The Sunday Times reported West Coast was concerned it might not be able to use the ground for up to a month. The first AFL game for the season scheduled at Domain Stadium is Fremantle against Port Adelaide on April 5.
"We've got no clear timeline for when we'll get the oval back," Eagles general manager of football Craig Vozzo told The Sunday Times.
Thousands of fans turned out to see boy band One Direction play at Domain Stadium on Friday night. Photo: Matthew Tompsett
It was reported large parts of the ground's surface had been damaged following the One Direction gig and that sections of the ground would need to be replaced and would take two to four weeks to settle.
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But in a press release that first trumpeted the value of having major concerts at the venue, then addressed the ground damage issue, the WAFC said damage to the ground was not significant and in line with expectations.
"We currently have a booking for West Coast to recommence training at Domain Stadium on Monday, March 9 and will ensure the turf is prepared to meet AFL standards for this booking," he said.
Mr Walton said after the turf was installed, the last pre-season renovation work would then get underway, including re-coring, sanding and seeding for the rye grass to ensure the surface was well prepared for the AFL season.
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HERBICIDES are one of the most important tools in a no-till farmer's arsenal, but increased - and sometimes incorrect - use has the potential to render these vital chemicals ineffective.
Speaking at a recent herbicide resistance forum at Karoonda, organised by the Mallee and Coorong NRM group and the Karoonda Ag Bureau, the Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative's Peter Newman, Geraldton, WA, said resistance was a growing problem.
"Herbicide resistance is a big issue worldwide, and in Australia WA and parts of SA have been the leaders," Mr Newman said.
While herbicide resistance in the SA Mallee is not as great as other parts of the country, issues are starting to crop up.
"Our big concern for this part of the world is that brome grass will very quickly evolve resistance to Imi (imidazolinone) herbicides and once they fall over these growers are going to have a lot of trouble on their hands, so we're trying to intervene before that happens and make those herbicides last a lot longer.
"The reason more farmers don't have Imi resistance is because they haven't used enough of it, but it will happen - it's not one of those low-risk groups," he said.
"If you're just in the stage of getting a few resistant populations, that's the warning sign that it's going to happen."
He said herbicides were not the answer to herbicide resistance.
"Herbicides are fantastic - but has anyone actually completely eradicated ryegrass on their property? We've had 30 to 40 years of new ryegrass herbicides coming out, and we've still got ryegrass. Herbicides are brilliant, but they're not the complete answer," he said.
"With a lot of farmers, when herbicide resistance bites, they just start rotating herbicides. They're still living year-to-year, just focusing on killing this year's weeds, then it's all the same the next year. As soon as farmers make it about the seed bank, they start to have wins.
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The Earthquakes don't expect to suffer the embarrassment of Levi's Stadium and its shoddy sod. They had a big advantage after successfully building grass fields at Buck Shaw Stadium and their practice facility adjacent to Avaya Stadium.
The team has used West Coast Turf's Bandera Bermuda grass that also is installed at AT&T Park, O.co Coliseum and Stanford Stadium.
The team conducted sun studies to figure out which areas of the field would be most affected by shadows during growing season. Builders changed the stadium's roof design based on the studies to allow for more sun during winter months.
"Bermuda fields only germinate at a certain temperature," team president Dave Kaval said. "If it is too cold, they lie dormant."
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Designers shifted the stadium's configuration to take into account effects of the sun during games. Avaya Stadium faces northeast by southwest to ensure goalkeepers aren't blinded by glare like they were at Buck Shaw Stadium during sunset. The canopy and stadium walls also protect fans from sun exposure.
Seats and sightlines
The Quakes tested almost a dozen varieties of seats before settling on the Quantum from Camatic Seating. The seats are coordinated with team colors to enhance the home aura inside the stadium. The steep bowl-shaped seating structure and canopy have given Avaya intimacy. The top row is much closer to the field than almost any other stadium of its size. "If you sit in the 'nosebleed,' you're only 50 feet above the ground," Kaval said.
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Frank Crofts receiving a medal from Sir Herman Black of the University of Sydney in 1968. Photo: Supplied
FRANK CROFTS 19252014
Frank Crofts was a distinguished agricultural scientist and an inspiring university teacher. His career resulted in huge savings in fuel and water for Australian crops, while improving soil fertility and increasing productivity.
He was born on February 27, 1925, the son of farming parents, Arthur and Lila Crofts. He grew up in the town of Blayney, an area well-known for severe extended winters and tough farming conditions. He went to Blayney Primary School then Kinross Wolaroi School in Orange. He joined the RAAF in 1942 and served in Townsville and New Guinea. As a returned serviceman, he got a Commonwealth Reconstruction Training Scholarship.
He started at the University of Sydney in 1947. There he met Lucinda Wyndham, a demonstrator in agricultural botany and genetics. In 1950 and 1951, Crofts took the Pawlett Scholarship. His honours year was seminal: he was invited to attend the First Australian Agristology Conference, where he listened to the leaders in pasture research from all states of Australia formulate plans.
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Crofts graduated with a bachelor of science in agriculture with first class honours in 1951 and, the following year, he and Lucinda were married. From 1951 to 1954, Crofts worked on pasture decline on the far north coast of NSW as a research agronomist with the Department of Agriculture, on secondment to the University of Sydney.
During this time he became interested in conservation agriculture and no-tillage, and in this was at least 20 years ahead of his time. Together with pasture agronomist Ernest Breakwell and Harold Jenkins, he was largely responsible for developing the practice of sowing legumes into uncultivated pastures to increase pasture productivity a practice known as sod-seeding. This led to the university's patent of the sod-seeder, a machine widely used as the basis of conservation.
In the 1950s, Crofts developed a pasture management system to enable a consistent supply of forage for dairy cows throughout the year, reducing feed costs by up to 75 per cent. In 1954, Crofts was appointed lecturer in agronomy at the University of Sydney.
In 1960, Crofts was a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at Oregon State University. There, he was awarded a Master of Science with honours for his work on the effects of nitrogen on the growth patterns of a range of grass species.
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