Read this fresh report about insects can cause severe damages to Scandinavian golf courses – mainly in the southern areas. Damages from chafer grubs are occasional, damages from leatherjackets tend to be increasing. Restrictions on insecticides have necessitated the use of alternative control methods. Read more about this in the report below.
'IPM-GOLF: Integrated management of important turfgrass diseases and insect pests on European golf courses' is a project with several work packages investigating alternative
methods to prevent turfgrass diseases which causes severe problems on Scandinavian golf courses every year. Read more about the project.
STERF is a research foundation that supports existing and future R&D efforts and delivers ‘ready-to-use research results’ that benefit the Nordic golf sector. STERF was set up in 2006 by the golf federations in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland and the Nordic Greenkeepers’ Associations.