RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, October 28, 2010 – BASF Professional Turf & Ornamentals today introduced a free Web application that gives U.S. golf course superintendents quick, expert advice on turfgrass disease control programs via their mobile phone browsers. To use the tool simply visit the BASFTurfTalk.com blog or directly link to BASFTurfDiseaseControl.com on a mobile device, such as the iPhone^®, Android^® and Blackberry^®, or desktop browser.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, September 15, 2010 – BASF Professional Turf & Ornamentals announced the launch of its Intrinsic™ brand fungicides; Honor® Intrinsic brand fungicide and Insignia® SC Intrinsic brand fungicide, into the golf turfgrass market. Both Honor Intrinsic and Insignia SC Intrinsic are labeled for disease control and plant health benefits and Intrinsic is the BASF umbrella brand for all products labeled for plant health in the turf & ornamentals markets. 

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, February 8, 2010 – BASF Professional Turf  & Ornamentals announced it has added four new employees to its team effective immediately.  Appointed are Business Manager, Brian Lish; Strategic Account Manager - National Golf, Lawn and Landscape, Derek Miller; and Senior Sales Specialists; Chris Key and Jonathan Smith.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, November 17, 2009 - BASF North American Crop Protection announces the appointment of Jan Buberl to head the organization’s Specialty Products Division (SPD) effective October 1, 2009. The division comprises three businesses: Professional Pest Control Solutions, Professional Turf & Ornamentals, and Professional Vegetation Management.

To give industry professionals greater value and convenience when controlling diseases and weeds, BASF Professional Turf & Ornamentals announced new larger packaging options on two key products. Pendulum^® AquaCap^™ herbicide is available for a limited time in a 110-gallon drum and Insignia^® fungicide is now available in a 36-pound drum.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, October 5, 2009 – BASF Professional Turf & Ornamentals today announced its launch of Honor^™ fungicide, a combination of two industry-leading active ingredients, and Tower^® herbicide, which features dimethenamid-P, a new active ingredient for the turf market. Both products give golf course superintendents broad-spectrum control to help them optimize applications.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, August 11, 2009 – BASF Turf & Ornamentals today announced that, effective immediately, it will no longer sell Drive® 75 DF herbicide to the professional turf & ornamentals market.  BASF will now focus on selling the most innovative product in postemergent herbicides, Drive® XLR8.

BASF Turf & Ornamentals announced it has added four new employees to its team effective immediately. Appointed are Product Manager Missi Koenig, Sales Specialists David Schell and Brian McCaffrey, and Senior Sales Specialist David Maubach.

BASF Turf & Ornamentals today announced that FreeHand™ 1.75G herbicide and Drive® XLR8 herbicide have received full state registration in California.