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Seed Production Newsletter - June 10, 2025
Perennial ryegrass growing degree days (GDD)
Perennial ryegrass GDDs will be tracked during the 2025 growing season with comparisons to the previous seven years. The accumulation of GDDs will begin after the snow has melted from the perennial ryegrass fields and continue through swathing. A base temperature of 32 °F will be used for perennial ryegrass GDD model.
Seed Production Newsletter - June 3, 2025
Perennial ryegrass growing degree days (GDD)
Perennial ryegrass GDDs will be tracked during the 2025 growing season with comparisons to the previous seven years. The accumulation of GDDs will begin after the snow has melted from the perennial ryegrass fields and continue through swathing. A base temperature of 32 °F will be used for perennial ryegrass GDD model.
Seed Production Newsletter - May 27, 2025
Perennial ryegrass growing degree days (GDD)
Perennial ryegrass GDDs will be tracked during the 2025 growing season with comparisons to the previous seven years. The accumulation of GDDs will begin after the snow has melted from the perennial ryegrass fields and continue through swathing. A base temperature of 32 °F will be used for perennial ryegrass GDD model.
Seed Production Newsletter - May 20, 2025
Perennial ryegrass growing degree days (GDD)
Perennial ryegrass GDDs will be tracked during the 2025 growing season with comparisons to the previous seven years. The accumulation of GDDs will begin after the snow has melted from the perennial ryegrass fields and continue through swathing. A base temperature of 32 °F will be used for perennial ryegrass GDD model.
Seed Production Newsletter - May 13, 2025
Perennial ryegrass growing degree days (GDD)
Perennial ryegrass GDDs will be tracked during the 2025 growing season with comparisons to the previous seven years. The accumulation of GDDs will begin after the snow has melted from the perennial ryegrass fields and continue through swathing. A base temperature of 32 °F will be used for perennial ryegrass GDD model.
Seed Production Newsletter - May 6, 2025
Perennial ryegrass growing degree days (GDD)
Perennial ryegrass GDDs will be tracked during the 2025 growing season with comparisons to the previous seven years. The accumulation of GDDs will begin after the snow has melted from the perennial ryegrass fields and continue through swathing. A base temperature of 32 °F will be used for perennial ryegrass GDD model.
Seed Production Newsletter - April 29, 2025
Perennial ryegrass growing degree days (GDD)
Perennial ryegrass GDDs will be tracked in the 2024 growing season with comparisons to the previous seven years. The accumulation of GDDs will begin after the snow has melted from the perennial ryegrass fields and continue through swathing. A base temperature of 32 °F will be used for perennial ryegrass (Temperature - Base = 32 °F)
2024 Bee Lawn Update
By Paige Boyle
This past summer, I completed my first season of MSP LTER Pollinator Habitat data collection. I spent 3 weeks in the Twin Cities with my undergraduate helper from the University of St. Thomas, Eli, identifying plants in home lawns throughout the metro (Figure 1), getting rained on, and talking to homeowners about their yards.