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The right seeds should be part of any strategy to reduce the impact of drought on golf greens and football pitches

Our climate is changing with more heat and longer drought incidents. At the same time, we experience more cases of intense rainfall where cloudbursts are challenging the capacity of city drainage systems.

Due to Covid-19, the third Turf Business Summit was postponed to this year and held at one of the world’s finest golf venues – The Belfry in the UK.

During hot, dry summers valuable grassland loses its lush green colour. The longer the drought, the more brown the grass becomes. Week by week, the grass additionally loses biomass, and dry-matter yields decline. Europe’s increasingly frequent spring and summer droughts are creating more forage gaps that reduce agricultural profits.