Penn State University Libraries - Turfgrass

• Where to find Materials Safety Data Sheets.
• National Pesticide Use Database. The National Center for Food & Agricultural Policy's National Pesticide Use Database contains 20,886 individual records that quantify the use of 235 active ingredients on 87 cops in the 48 contiguous states. The original database covered 1992 and has been updated for 1997.
• National Pesticide Use Database: 2002. The National Pesticide Use Database (2002), compiled by the Crop Protection Research Institute of the Crop Life Foundation, contains quantitative data on the use of fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, and other pesticides in U.S. crop production. The data are organized by state, crop, and active ingredient and include crop acres planted, percent of acres treated, acres treated, average annual application rate, and total pounds of pesticide applied. The sources of all data are referenced and publicly available.
• PAN Pesticides Database. The PAN Pesticides Database is your one-stop location for current toxicity and regulatory information for pesticides. The PAN Pesticide Database brings together a diverse array of information on pesticides from many different sources, providing human toxicity (chronic and acute), ecotoxicity and regulatory information for about 6,400 pesticide active ingredients and their transformation products, as well as adjuvants and solvents used in pesticide products. This database of active ingredients has been integrated with the U.S. EPA product databases, which provide information on formulated products (the form of the pesticide that growers and consumers purchase for use) containing the active ingredients. The information is most complete for pesticides registered for use in the United States.
• Pesticide Education Program at Penn State.
• US EPA Office of Pesticide Programs Database. Includes links to Pesticide fact sheets; Controlling Pests: Around the Home and In the Lawn and Garden; and information on Pesticide Regulation.
• The Standard Pesticide User's Guide by Bert L. Bohmont. 7th Edition.
• Turf & Ornamental Chemicals Reference: T&OCR.

You can look for turfgrass information on the Internet by using one of the 'guides' listed below, or by using an Internet Search Engine like Google Scholar. Usually the search engines are most appropriate when you have a narrow, specific information need. For example if you were looking for information on the type of grass appropriate for a grass airplane landing strip. If you are just looking for information on a general topic such as golf course maintenance, a subject guide is most appropriate.

• AgNIC Turfgrass page provides access to a number of World Wide Web sites pertaining to turfgrass
• Solution Source is a Web-based information system from Penn State Cooperative Extension. There is a section on horticulture, gardening, and landscaping that contains relevant turfgrass information.
• Plant Management Network is a unique cooperative resource for the applied plant sciences. The Plant Management Network offers an extensive searchable database comprised of thousands of web-based resource pages from the network's partner universities, companies, and associations. In addition, the network has four peer-reviewed citable journals, Applied Turfgrass Science, Crop Management, Forage and Grazinglands, and Plant Health Progress.
• Penn State Center for Turfgrass Science is part of the College of Agricultural Sciences, the turfgrass program began in 1929. This page has information about the center, news and information, upcoming events, research and turf advice.