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Thank you for signing up for Operation Pollinator.It is an excellent initiative that can help you increase biodiversity on your course. Find more case studies, stories, advice and tips on our operation pollinator pages www.greencast.co.uk/operation-pollinator   To download a copy of the Operation Pollinator agreement, please click below 

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Turf growth is often wildly inconsistent through the spring. Understanding weather patterns for consistent growth is essential to help guide recovery from winter damage and to better time all management decisions. Turf Advisor gives you the data to decide.Pick the appropriate Turf Advisor tools for your dashboard and prioritise their order, to better understand turf growth patterns and when to act.Find out more about Turf Advisor, or download from the links below

Find out more about the of the hugely successful Syngenta Operation Pollinator Award winners. See how their practical tips and tricks could be incorporated on your course.

 Elsham Golf Club in Lincolnshire has won the prestigious Operation Pollinator Award for its outstanding habitat creation and ecological work around the course. First Assistant Greenkeeper, Anthony Darker, highlights how they successfully established the wildflower areas that have made the club such an attraction for wildlife and for players.Our journey to bring the golf course to life and make it more environmentally attractive was inspired by a Syngenta Operation Pollinator seminar back in 2011. We saw the potential of what we could achieve, and welcomed the practical advice to help set us on the way.   The first year we selected areas of the course that were out of play. Typically these were unsightly scrub with thick broad-leaved grasses. In the first instance we cut the areas back to 50mm height, cleared the debris and sprayed with Rescue to kill off the rough grasses.Within three weeks the grasses had died back, so we went in with the scarifier, operated in two directions, to remove…

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Dollar spot outbreaks increasingly result in serious surface quality loss on greens, approaches and tees. Changing climatic conditions and Integrated Turf Management (ITM) practices are driving the severity of attacks.Turf Advisor gives you the data to decide control strategies. Pick the appropriate Turf Advisor tools for your dashboard and prioritise their order, to better understand dollar spot risks and when to act.  Find out more about Turf Advisor, or download from the links below:

Syngenta Turf is delighted to be involved in Operation Pollinator - an exciting initiative to help restore the plight of the Bumblebee and other crucial pollinating insects.

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 Operation Pollinator seed mixtures have been created by specialist ecologists and entomologists, in conjunction with golf course designers and agronomists.The aim is to create a season-long supply of pollen and nectar to enable pollinating insects to complete their life cysles, as well as providing a prolonged period of colour for the enjoyment of golfers. Species have also been selected to be relatively easy to establish and sufficiently robust to survive under golf course management regimes.Wildflower species recommended for inclusion Operation Pollinator habitat seed mixtures in typical golf course  Birdsfoot Trefoil (Lotus corniculatus)ParklandHeathlandLinksBlack Knapweed (Centaurea nigra)ParklandHeathlandLinks  Devil's Bit Scabious (Succisa pratensis)HeathlandField Scabious (Knautia arvensis)ParklandLinks  Kidney Vetch (Anthyllis vulneraria)LinksLady's Bedstraw (Galium verum)ParklandHeathlandLinks  Selfheal (Prunella…

  

 A new project designed to reverse the desperate plight of bumblebees and pollinating insects in the UK, by restoring valuable new habitats on golf courses, is being pioneered by Syngenta and the STRI. The initial pilot project of Operation Pollinator is now running on four selected courses, to provide valuable information on the best management techniques.Operation Pollinator aims to demonstrate that golf and the environment can co-exist. Simon Elsworth, Syngenta Turf Manager, believes golf courses could provide essential sanctuaries for bumblebees and other beneficial insect species. "Bumblebees play a crucial role as natures' pollinator, but they are in serious decline and need our help now. Helping to resurrect bumblebee populations will help to prove that golf courses can be managed in harmony with the environment."Golf courses cover 150,000 hectares of UK land area, and creating specialist habitat on less than 0.5% of the area would still make a hugely significant impact on bumblebee numbers,…