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[email protected] TABLE OF CONTENTS THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE Spring Fever . 4 THE GRASS ROOTS is the bi-monthly publication of the Wisconsin Golf WISCONSIN PATHOLOGY REPORT Course Superintendents Association printed by e Continuing Debate Surrounding Snow Spectra Print. No part of the THE GRASS ROOTS Mold Fungicide Reapplications . 6 may be used without the expressed written permis- BUSINESS OF GOLF sion of the editor. WSGA, WPGA Spring Symposium Covers David A Brandenburg, CGCS, EDITOR Wide Range of Topics . 10 Rolling Meadows Golf Course MEMBER SPOTLIGHT PO 314 eresa, WI 53091 Patrick Reuteman and Jaime Staufenbeil . 14
[email protected] WISCONSIN ENTOMOLOGY REPORT Considerations When Using Post-Patent (Generic)Products . 18 WGCSA Managing More an Turf . 20 TURFGRASS DIAGNOSTIC LAB Plant Disease Diagnostics: Art or Science? . 24 NORTHERN GREAT LAKES ASSOCIATION Spring Educational Conference Review . 26 2017 WGCSA OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS NOTES FROM THE NOER Front Row: Jim Van Herwynen, Jon Canavan, Josh Ocially, Spring Is Here .