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ICL specialty fertilizers launched riptide a new creeping bentgrass for europe
Nov. 15, 2016
ICL Specialty Fertilizers
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IsraelTwo of the top trends across industry today are innovation and sustainability. And as each new season arrives, there are smarter turfgrass products, new materials and techniques to help turf professionals to continue to produce better quality playing surfaces but with far fewer resources and inputs.
As well as protecting and enhancing the natural environment, there are many tangible, financial benefits from pursuing a more sustainable approach to turfgrass management too. Most golf courses will inevitably have finite resources in terms of their staff, time, equipment and materials. So, cost pressures are a major driver for change and innovation.
ICL-Specialty Fertilizers’ latest innovation is Riptide (Agrostis stolonifera), a new creeping bentgrass seed for golf course greens, tees and fairways, resulting from an ongoing research and development programme to bring new grass seed varieties to the European market.
Exclusive to ICL-Specialty Fertilizers and with 2015 European registration, Riptide is a bentgrass variety that’s ideal for seeding new areas or when used for interseeding as part of a course renovation programme. It’s the latest addition to the ICL-Specialty Fertilizers bentgrass range and sits alongside Memorial, launched in 2013 and renowned for its high resistance to dollar spot.
What makes Riptide unusual is that it’s particularly suited to the cooler Northern European climate. Creeping bentgrasses traditionally grow very well in warm season conditions but Riptide is unique in being able to tolerate the colder conditions and frosts of Northern Europe. It offers very good resistance to brown patch (rhizoctonia solani), foliar blight/basal rot (anthracnose), pink snow mould (fusarium) and take-all-patch (gaeumannomyces graminis).
The National Turfgrass Evaluation Program (NTEP) is one of the most widely-known turfgrass research programmes in the world and in independent NTEP trials for performance on greens and fairways, Riptide was given top rankings for both quality of appearance and disease resistance.
This fine-leaved, densely-shooting, creeping bentgrass establishes quickly, especially in spring, growing upright but low to the ground with high tiller shoot density and keeping its bright mid-green colour right through autumn and winter.
Riptide responds very well to lower nutritional inputs and less frequent watering, potentially significantly reducing costs involved in a higher maintenance programme and offering a more sustainable approach; less fertilizer, fungicide, scarification and verti-cutting.
Source: ICL specialty fertilizers
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