turfgrass

Aug 16, 2023  |  Academics

Growing Turfgrass Graduates: Tools to Boost Green Industry Recruiting

Building a turfgrass team can be a major industry challenge. Here's what we're doing to grow turfgrass graduates as well as new recruiting tools to help alumni and industry partners join the effort.

Aug 7, 2023  |  Gifts and Awards

Turfgrass Field Lab Receives Generous Gift

NC State's Department of Crop and Soil Sciences is honored to announce a generous estate gift from the late Stephen B. Womble to our Lake Wheeler Turfgrass Field Laboratory. 

Jun 15, 2023

Turfgrass Field Day

Turfgrass Field Day – Turf Field Lab, Raleigh Wednesday, August 9 – 8:00am – 1:00pm 3920 Dr Bill Gilbert Way Raleigh, 27603

Apr 24, 2023  |  Student Groups

HortPack Competes at the 2023 National Landscape Competition

For the first time in four years, the HortPack student competition team traveled to participate in the 2023 National Collegiate Landscape Competition.

Aug 22, 2022  |  Faculty Focus

Art Bruneau Looks Back on a Distinguished Turfgrass Career

Art Bruneau, professor emeritus of crop and soil sciences, has played an important role in the turfgrass industry for many years. Bruneau takes a looks back on a long and distinguished career.

Aug 15, 2022  |  Research

NC State University Releases Sola™, the Newest St. Augustinegrass

NC State’s Turfgrass Breeding and Genetics program released Sola™, a new cultivar with improved characteristics, at the annual Lake Wheeler Turfgrass Field Day.

Mar 28, 2022  |  Student Groups

HortPack Wins Third in National Landscape Competition

NC State’s HortPack won third place at the 2022 National Collegiate Landscape Competition (NCLC) held on campus last week.

Mar 9, 2022  |  Student Groups

Who is the HortPack?

The HortPack is NC State's national top-ten ranking collegiate landscaping team comprised of two and four-year students from Horticultural Science and Crop and Soil Sciences. NC State hosts the 2022 national competition next week.

Jan 13, 2022

Crop and Soil Sciences Seminar Series

Dr. Grady Miller Professor, Crop and Soil Sciences   Turfgrass Clippings From The last 5 years   All seminars begin at 3:30 PM on Wednesdays. We will continue to do Zoom seminars for this spring. Zoom Details for all presentations […]

Oct 25, 2021  |  Research

Plant Breeding AI Gets Schooled in New Student Competition

If Hillsborough Street glowed a bit brighter recently, it might have been from the collective mental energy focused on NC State and USDA-ARS’s first Agricultural Technology Hackathon.