Survey documents changes in pest management practices

The results of GCSAA's 2015 survey on "Pest Management Practices on U.S. Golf Courses" were published this week, with mostly good news to report.

As the graph to the right shows, there has been a large shift over the past several years in the types of pest management strategies that superintendents rely on most. While reliance alternative, or non-pesticide strategies such as cultural control, plant growth regulators and biological control has spiked upwards over the last 8 years, reliance on…