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Improve water use efficiency with Magnum Forty-Four

July 14, 2020/in News, Press Release/by Bradley Foster

Improve water use efficiency with Magnum Forty-Four: Water management on managed turf grass is extremely important to ensure adequate water in the rhizosphere for nutrient uptake and overall metabolic function. Conversely ensuring rapid movement of excess water from surfaces is vital to maintain suitable playing surfaces. This is due to the fact that the balance […]

TriCure AD™ delivers award-winning coverage

July 14, 2020/in News, Press Release/by Louise Challiss

TriCure AD™ delivers award-winning coverage: With a special nod to the consistency achieved across the course, Matt Aplin of Goring & Streatley Golf Club has scooped ‘Greenkeeper of the Year (under £75 green fees)’ from the 59club for the second year in a row! Matt believes it is no coincidence that since they’ve been applying […]

Improve water use efficiency with Magnum Forty-Four

July 14, 2020/in News, Press Release/by Bradley Foster

TriCure AD™ delivers award-winning coverage

July 14, 2020/in News, Press Release/by Louise Challiss

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Improve water use efficiency with Magnum Forty-Four

July 14, 2020/in News, Press Release/by Bradley Foster

Improve water use efficiency with Magnum Forty-Four: Water management on managed turf grass is extremely important to ensure adequate water in the rhizosphere for nutrient uptake and overall metabolic function.

Conversely ensuring rapid movement of excess water from surfaces is vital to maintain suitable playing surfaces. This is due to the fact that the balance of moisture plays a key role in reducing abiotic stress and preventing conditions that encourage biotic stress leading to conditions detrimental to turf quality.

Improve water use efficiency with Magnum Forty-Four

The historical build-up of certain surfactant molecules that are not biodegradable in soil profiles has been a concern therefore every effort has been made to prevent this with Magnum Forty- Four. To that end it has been specifically designed and formulated as a biodegradable penetrant wetting agent with specific surfactant technology to open hydrophobic soil profiles and rapidly reduce excessive surface water.

Penetrant wetting agents, like Magnum Forty-Four, help each water droplet penetrate the soil more easily, helping water to move through the surface layer quickly, and keep the top surface dry. On hydrophobic soils, water remains on the surface in large droplets which cannot penetrate into the soil profile. Magnum Forty-Four helps to break down this large droplets, so that the water is spread more easily and thinly, allowing it to penetrate the soil profile and work its way through the root zone.

The research and development behind surfactant technologies has now provided molecules that are able to reduce the effects of hydrophobic soils to increase wetting and provide rapid even movement of moisture through the profile to prevent puddling and dry patches, particularly important in periods of excess rainfall or drought. Magnum Forty-Four is specifically designed to work as a penetrant wetting agent to encourage even quick water movement through hydrophobic soils.

Trials were undertaken at an independent laboratory to analyse the effectiveness of Magnum Forty-Four against a competitor product. The “droplet penetration test” method was used to evaluate the products, which were compared to water. Magnum Forty-Four outperformed the competitor product, even at lower than the currently recommended rates of application.

Magnum Forty-Four also increases the efficacy of irrigation water movement and enhances spread pattern and penetration of liquid fertilisers. It is fully tank mix compatible with the vast majority of the Indigrow range, including the Asset, OneShot, Solar and Fusion products.

https://www.indigrow.com/product/magnum-forty-four-penetrant-wetter-10lts/

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July 14, 2020/in News, Press Release/by Louise Challiss

TriCure AD™ delivers award-winning coverage: With a special nod to the consistency achieved across the course, Matt Aplin of Goring & Streatley Golf Club has scooped ‘Greenkeeper of the Year (under £75 green fees)’ from the 59club for the second year in a row!

Matt believes it is no coincidence that since they’ve been applying TriCure AD™ from Headland Amenity on the fairways, and more recently course wide, they are achieving guaranteed consistency in presentation and turf quality like never before.

TriCure AD™ delivers award-winning coverage

Matt has been at the Berkshire club for over 20 years and recently oversaw the installation of a new irrigation system. He explains, “This helps to compensate for our course being laid out over free draining chalkland, however our allowance – particularly for fairways – is extremely limited.” With its installation complete in the late summer of 2018, Matt then had to tackle the recovery of large areas badly affected by the drought.

“Our Headland Technical Manager Iain Richardson recommended the wetting agent TriCure AD™, applied at 5L/ha. Having previously applied competitor products at much higher rates to little effect, the club were absolutely astounded when, after just two applications of TriCure AD™, the fairways had returned to full coverage! Not only does the low application rate and field longevity of up to five weeks make the product super cost effective, the level of coverage retained has meant we haven’t had to overseed our fairways for two years.”

Following the exemplary results achieved on the fairways over both the 2018 & 2019 seasons, this year Matt applied TriCure AD™ course wide. “We put down the first application in the second week of May on our fairways, approaches and tees, and at half rate on the greens which is helping to deliver the firm, fast greens the members crave.” Three subsequent TriCure AD™ applications will be made monthly, tank mixed with Headland’s Elevate Fe^® liquid iron complex, when not too hot, to further enhance presentation.

“Between the 2^nd May and the 11^th June, we received just 4mm of rain. Thankfully, our TriCure AD™ programme means the course presentation tells a different tale. Within a few days of receiving some rainfall, we were green again and received some fantastic feedback from the players.”

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Improve water use efficiency with Magnum Forty-Four

TriCure AD™ delivers award-winning coverage

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Improve water use efficiency with Magnum Forty-Four

Improve water use efficiency with Magnum Forty-Four: Water management on managed turf grass is extremely important to ensure adequate water in the rhizosphere for nutrient uptake and overall metabolic function.

TriCure AD™ delivers award-winning coverage

TriCure AD™ delivers award-winning coverage: With a special nod to the consistency achieved across the course, Matt Aplin of Goring & Streatley Golf Club has scooped ‘Greenkeeper of the Year (under £75 green fees)’ from the 59club for the second year in a row!

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