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Jul. 14, 2009
George Lucas Of Lucas Greenhouses Wins Greenhouse Grower Magazine’s Grower Of The Year Award Sponsored By BASF Turf & Ornamentals

Louise Lucas, George Lucas and Joe Moore of Lucas Greenhouses and Steve Larson of BASF Turf & Ornamentals.

May. 05, 2009
BASF Receives Full California Registration For Pageant™ Fungicide

Broad-spectrum Pageant helps nursery and greenhouse growers control more ornamentals diseases than any other fungicide.

Apr. 21, 2009
BASF Turf & Ornamentals Adds Four To Team

BASF Turf & Ornamentals announced it has added four new employees to its team effective immediately.  Appointed are Product Manager Missi Koenig, Sales Specialists David Schell, and Brian McCaffrey and Senior Sales Specialist David Maubach.

Mar. 03, 2009
BASF Receives Full California Registration For Two Turf & Ornamentals Herbicides

FreeHand™ 1.75G herbicide saves manual weeding costs; Drive® XLR8 herbicide offers broad-spectrum control of broadleaf and grassy weeds.

Oct. 20, 2008
Wayne Ducote And Dan Watts Join BASF Turf & Ornamentals

BASF announced it has appointed Wayne Ducote as Sales Specialist and Dan Watts as Strategic Accounts Manager.

Sep. 23, 2008
Randy Lusher joins BASF Turf and Ornamentals as Sales Specialist

BASF Turf & Ornamentals announced it has appointed Randy Lusher as Sales Specialist for Illinois and Wisconsin. Lusher will help distributors, golf course superintendents, nursery and greenhouse growers...

Aug. 21, 2008
BASF Launches Online Training Modules For The Ornamentals Market

Interactive training now available for FreeHand™ 1.75G herbicide and Pageant™ fungicide.

Jul. 13, 2008
Zoltan Kovacs Of Sunny Border Nurseries Wins 2008 GrowerTalks Young Grower Award Co-Sponsored By BASF Turf & Ornamentals

Zoltan Kovacs, Vice President of Operations at Sunny Border Nurseries in Kensington, Connecticut, was recognized by BASF Turf & Ornamentals with the 2008 GrowerTalks Young Grower Award at the Ohio Florists Association (OFA) Short Course in Columbus, Ohio, in an awards ceremony Saturday.

Jun. 30, 2008
Thavy Un Joins BASF Turf & Ornamentals As Marketing Manager

BASF Turf & Ornamentals today announced the appointment of Thavy Un as Marketing Manager. In her new role, Un will focus on developing marketing strategies for Turf & Ornamentals, as well as on planning and program development.

May. 13, 2008
BASF launches innovative ornamentals fungicide and herbicide at its industry media summit

Broad-spectrum Pageant fungicide helps greenhouse growers control more diseases than any other fungicide; FreeHand herbicide saves manual weeding costs.

May. 05, 2008
Spanish Pest Management Guide

Spanish version of Pest Management Guide from BASF available free at betterplants.basf.us

Apr. 09, 2008
Tower herbicide from BASF gives field-grown nursery operations broad-spectrum, preemergence control

BASF Turf &Ornamentals today announced its launch of Tower™ herbicide for broad-spectrum, preemergence control of more than 50 weeds that challenge field-grown and landscape ornamental operations. When applied prior to weed germination, Tower herbicide controls yellow nutsedge, carpetweed, bittercress, purslane, crabgrass and barnyardgrass, as well as emerging troublesome weeds such as doveweed and groundsel.

Mar. 17, 2008
Stature SC fungicide features new flowable formulation of dimethomorph

BASF Turf & Ornamentals today announced it has launched Stature™SC fungicide, a new liquid flowable formulation of its widely used Stature® DM fungicide. This new formulation will help greenhouse and field and container nurseries preventatively control phytophthora and downy mildew diseases.

Jan. 31, 2008
BASF Turf & Ornamentals Expands Its Herbicide Offering With Broad-Spectrum Segment Herbicide

2008 Golf Industry Show – Golf course superintendents, lawn care operators and nursery growers can save intensive weeding labor and costs on more than 350 species of ornamentals with grass selective, postemergent Segment™ herbicide from BASF Turf & Ornamentals.

Jan. 23, 2008
BASF to supply triticonazole fungicide to Bayer Environmental Science

BASF Crop Protection today announced it has agreed to provide limited access to triticonazole fungicide to Bayer Environmental Science for United States and Canadian turf and landscape ornamental uses. The supply agreement between BASF and Bayer is for certain uses including professional sports turf, golf, landscaping, and professional lawn care. BASF maintains all the rights to the active ingredient to sell the compound in all the markets where it is registered.