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Lawn Care Survey for Twin Cities Residents
Dear Twin Cities Resident, Graduate student Madeline Leslie is offering a lawn care survey (with prizes) to collect data for a Master’s degree thesis project. If you have time please complete the...
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The Potential of Turfgrass to Sequester Carbon and Offset Greenhouse Gas...
Photo: Julie Weisenhorn By Madeline Leslie, Graduate Research Assistant Climate change is a serious environmental issue that will continue to cause widespread concern around the globe. As the amount of...
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Drought Trials on the St. Paul Campus
By Maggie Reiter, Graduate Research Assistant Rainout shelter on the St. Paul campus. Photo: Maggie Reiter Our worldwide water resources are declining at an alarming rate, both in quantity and quality....
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Turf and Bees: What’s the buzz on pesticides in lawns?
White clover and dandelion provide great early season forage for pollinators in lawns By Ian Lane, Graduate Research Assistant If you have been paying attention to the news lately, you know that bees...
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Educational Opportunity: BEE AWARE- The Importance of Pollinators in the...
MTGF Super Tuesday Set for January 13, 2015Cost is $65. Education points are available.
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Salt-Tolerant Roadside Grasses: Does Anything Actually Survive?
By Matt Cavanaugh, Research Scientist The seven county metro area uses nearly 350,000 tons of road salt each year with uses coming from the Minnesota Department of Transportation (81,000 tons),...
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The 2014 Cultivar Evaluation Results are now available and published online. To view these results, click the “Cultivar Evaluation Results” tab under the Research section on the left of this webpage....
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Nutrient Pollution in the Mississippi River-Twin Cities Watershed: How...
By Madeline Leslie, Graduate Research Assistant Residents of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan area are lucky enough to have a plethora of valuable water resources on their doorsteps. Numerous...
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Seeding your lawn this fall? Here are some considerations (Part 2 of 2)
Previously I wrote about the different renovation options for fall seeding of lawns and about the various attributes of cool-season lawn grasses. This week I wanted to discuss the mixtures and blends...
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