Eric Watkins
Installation and Management of Roadside Turfgrass course - now hosted by UMN Extension!
By Kristine Moncada
Fine fescue forensics
By Eric Watkins and Yinjie Qiu
This article was originally published on the Low Input Turf Using Fine Fescues blog.
Fine fescue research has progressed rapidly in recent years, spurred by greater interest in low-input turf and the availability of funding for improving these grasses. While giving talks to various groups about lawn grasses for Minnesota, we often follow the introduction of fine fescues with a refrain similar to “they all look very similar”: translation “don’t ask me how to tell the fine fescues apart!”.
University of Minnesota Turfgrass team in the media – 5/15/2020
Check out our team’s latest efforts in educating the public about our work! We have two articles to share.
Eric Watkins authored Improving Turfgrass Winter Stress Tolerance in the May 2020 edition of Hole Notes, the official publication of the MGCSA.
University of Minnesota Turfgrass team in the media - 5/4/2020
Check out our team’s latest efforts in educating the public about our work! We have an article and a final project report to share.
Eric Watkins wrote an article, How much does turfgrass research cost?, for the March issue of Golf Course Management, a publication of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America.
University of Minnesota Turfgrass team in the media - 4/13/2020
Check out our team’s latest efforts in educating the public about our work! We have several articles to share.
Yinjie Qiu authored Molecular Breeding In Turfgrass in the March 2020 edition of Hole Notes, the official publication of the MGCSA.
Join the Turfgrass Science Team at Northern Green 2020
Members of our team will be giving talks at Northern Green, a trade show and conference dedicated to green industry professionals. Register now for this worthwhile event!
Northern Green
January 14-16, 2020
Minneapolis Convention Center
REGISTRATION
This year’s presentations from our team include:
University of Minnesota Turf Research Update
Eric Watkins
Wednesday, January 15, 7:30 AM - 8:20 AM
Turfgrass Science Team at the 2019 ASA-CSSA-SSSA Annual Meeting
The Turfgrass Science team from the University of Minnesota was well-represented at this year’s ASA-CSSA-SSSA Annual Meeting held on November 10-13, 2019 in San Antonio, TX. Seven people gave oral presentations and five people presented posters. Additionally, congratulations go to two members of our group who placed in the graduate student oral presentation contests:
University of Minnesota Turfgrass team in the media - 11/21/19
Check out our team’s latest efforts in educating the public about our work! We have many articles and several upcoming presentations to share.
Articles
Dan Sandor was featured in a Pioneer Press article, Read this before finishing that fall yard cleanup, on November 8, 2019.