- Pest Identification and disease epidemiology
- IPM strategies and resistance management
- Principles of disease management
- Integrated pest management implementation and documentation
- Alternative pesticides and application scheduling
- Reducing non-target injuries from pesticide applications
- Turfgrass disease fundamentals
- Control strategies for diseases of cool-season grasses.
- Dollar spot, take-all patch, summer patch, Anthracnose, brown patch, Pythium, snow molds
- Identify diseases
- Fungicides
- Disease triangle
- Weed ecology, IPM and control
- Herbicides and herbicide injury
- Crabgrass, annual bluegrass, nutsedge, dandelions, white clover, and thistle