2025 WinterTurf Field Day recap

April 25, 2025

By Paige Boyle

This article was originally published on the WinterTurf project blog.

Thank you to all who came out to our 2025 WinterTurf Field Day at the University of Minnesota on April 15! Several WinterTurf researchers from around the country talked about aspects of our project (Figure 1). If you weren’t able to make it, or are looking for more information on some of the research topics we discussed, review the agenda, with links to additional information, below.

a group of people listening to a speaker outside at a turf field day
Figure 1. Michelle DaCosta speaks to a group about light impacts on winter damage recovery.

2025 WinterTurf Field Day topics

Upper Midwest snow mold year in review

Does late fall topdressing reduce winter damage?

WinterTurf sensing update

Impact of light on recovery from winter damage

Dormant seeding strategies

Ice encasement of annual bluegrass

 

This project is supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Specialty Crop Research Initiative under award number 2021-51181-35861. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and should not be construed to represent any official USDA or U.S. Government determination or policy.