The 2025 Turf & Landscape Seminar is offering an in-person option or LIVE virtual option this year!

This event is designed for intermediate and advanced turf professionals, providing them with the latest technology for managing turf and landscape systems, and to maintain their pesticide applicator licenses.  Two full days of CCH earning presentations delivered by faculty and staff from Purdue University and the Office of the Indiana State Chemists.  Registered attendees (in-person) will be provided with lunch on day two of the seminar.

The following credits have been APPROVED by the OISC:

Space for the in-person event is limited to the first 70 registrants. Virtual option is unlimited.

Cost:

    $260: MRTF members

    $350: Non-members

Agenda:

Day 1 – Wednesday, November 19, 2025

8:00-8:30 Registration

8:30-8:45 Opening Comments, Kyle Daniel & Lee Miller

8:45-9:45 Two Decades in the Dirt: What We’ve Learned About White Grub Control, Doug Richmond

9:45-10:00 Break

10:00-11:00 Picking a Non-Selective Herbicide, Aaron Patton

11:00-12:00 Feeding Ideas for Healthy Lawns, Cale Bigelow

12:00-1:15 Lunch (on your own)

1:15-2:15 Cankers and Dieback Diseases in the Landscape, Tom Creswell

2:15-3:15 Turfgrass Disease Control Strategies with and without Fungicides, Lee Miller

3:15-4:15 What’s Happening with OISC and Regulation, Aaron Kreider

Day 2 – Thursday, November 20, 2025

8:00-8:30 Review of Day 1, Kyle Daniel & Lee Miller

8:30-9:30 What’s Killing Our Trees, Ben McCallister

9:30-10:30 Reducing Water Use While Maintaining Turf Performance, Jada Powlen

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45-11:45 Battling Yellow Nutsedge & Other Sedges in Indiana, Brandon McNally

11:45-12:30 Lunch (provided)

12:30-1:30 Protecting the Public and Earning a Living: Adding Mosquito Work to Your Operation, Fred Whitford

1:30-2:30 Protecting the Public and Earning a Living: Adding Tick Work to Your Operation, Fred Whitford

2:30-3:30 Beyond the Target: The Science Behind Herbicide Injury and Plant Prognosis, Kyle Daniel

3:30-3:45 Closing: Survey and CCH Forms

*If you are unable to attend, for any reason, your registration fee will be retained as a donation to the MRTF, a not-for-profit 501c3.*