Perennial ryegrass

2021 Data

All links below are .pdf files

• Management of 2021 Trials

Kentucky bluegrass

• 2017 Kentucky bluegrass NTEP

Perennial ryegrass

By Dave Grafstrom

In 2020, a widespread outbreak of true armyworm (Mythimna unipuncta), and the subsequent feeding, caused significant damage to perennial ryegrass seed fields in northwest Minnesota. Reported ryegrass seed yield losses ranged from 0 to over 80%. The most severe damage occurred over the July 4th weekend. The majority of the perennial ryegrass fields were sprayed once or twice for armyworms.

The Turfgrass Science team from the University of Minnesota was well-represented at this year’s ASA-CSSA-SSSA Annual Meeting held on November 7-10, 2021 in Salt Lake City, UT.  Two of our graduate students, Nicole Mihelich and Joan Barreto Ortiz, gave oral presentations there. Below are their presentation titles and abstracts.

2020 Data

All links below are .pdf files

• Management of 2020 Trials

Kentucky bluegrass

• 2017 Kentucky bluegrass NTEP

Perennial ryegrass

2019 Data

All links below are .pdf files

• Management of 2019 Trials

Creeping bentgrass

• 2014 Creeping bentgrass NTEP green

Kentucky bluegrass

• 2017 Kentucky bluegrass NTEP

Perennial ryegrass

The Turfgrass Science team from the University of Minnesota gave two presentations and presented two posters at this year’s ASA-CSSA-SSSA Virtual Annual Meeting. Below is a listing of the abstracts, along with links to the poster PDF files.

Learn more about our research! A new research article from our group has been published in Grass and Forage Science. Garett Heineck and co-authors wrote about new methods they investigated to identify superior plant material for perennial ryegrass breeding programs.

By Joan M. Barreto Ortiz

Learn more about our research! Two new research articles from our group have been published in Crop Science.