Oahu’s  West Loch Golf Couse, 2 Year Case Study – Torpedo Grass in Bermuda Grass Rough. 05/17/2023

On May 17, 2023, Dr. Joe DeFrank provided a Zoom webinar summarizing spray activities and the visual results of a 2-year study at Oahu’s West Loch Golf Course using 11 sequential spray application to manage Torpedo Grass (Panicum Repens) in a Bermuda grass rough.  The participants in this webinar were eligible for 1.0 points on their HDOA Continuing Educational Units (CEU) , 1.0 point for LICH CEU and 0/10 GCSAA CEU.

Topics Covered

1. Location of demonstration site at West Loch Golf Course
2. Biology of target weed = Torpedo Grass (Panicum repens)
3. Herbicides included in this 2-year case study.
4. Spray application system and visual measure of effects
5. Spray dates, intervals between application and tank mixes
6. Visual results on key dates during the 2-year study
7. Conclusions and WHAT IF: “If I could do it all over again”

For more information on this presentations contact:

Dr. Joe DeFrank

email:defrenk@hawaii.edu. 

Phone: 808-956-5698.

Suggested method to view streaming media and slideshow:

1.  Open two browser windows of this page, one will be used to view the "talking head" and the other will be used to view the slide show images as an Adobe pdf. 

2.  Click on the link to "view lecture", let the program download and start then hit pause.

3.  In the second window open the pdf version of the slide show and once the first slide appears return to lecture video and resume play.

3.  With two windows open, you can follow the lecture video for the queues to change the slide image.

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