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.

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In keeping with its dedication to real-world, science-based turf solutions, BASF Turf & Ornamentals will feature multiple educational events in its 2009 Golf Industry Show booth (#4726) to help superintendents more successfully manage their courses. During the show Feb. 5 to 7, 2009, in New Orleans, BASF has scheduled book signings by university turf pathology professors, Ask the Expert technical presentations and Turf Jeopardy gaming. Superintendents visiting the booth will also have a chance to win a laptop computer and LCD projector for their local GCSAA chapter.

BASF Turf & Ornamentals announced it has appointed Wayne Ducote as Sales Specialist for Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, the Florida panhandle region and Tennessee. Ducote will help distributors, golf course superintendents, nursery and greenhouse growers, and lawn care operators select science-based, chemical solutions for growing healthy turf and plants.

BASF Turf & Ornamentals announced it has appointed Randy Lusher as Sales Specialist for Illinois and Wisconsin. Lusher will help distributors, golf course superintendents, nursery and greenhouse growers, and lawn care operators select science-based solutions to grow healthy plants and turf.

BASF Turf & Ornamentals today announced the appointment of Thavy Un as Marketing Manager. In her new role, Un will focus on developing marketing strategies for Turf & Ornamentals, as well as on planning and program development. Her responsibilities will also include overseeing financial operations, forecasting and production in collaboration with manufacturing, regulatory, formulation and product labeling groups.

BASF Turf & Ornamentals today announced the appointment of Brian Thompson as FarmLinks Project Leader. Thompson will manage on-site BASF activities at the FarmLinks research facility based in Sylacauga, Alabama. In his new role, he will spearhead BASF’s cornerstone partnership with FarmLinks by supervising BASF field research and product testing, and enhancing turf professionals’ education and training opportunities during the Experience at FarmLinks.

BASF Turf & Ornamentals today announced it has launched BASF Turf Talk (www.basfturftalk.com), a blog developed to provide an online forum on industry issues, trends and regional happenings for BASF T&O, and the turf community it serves.

Combining hard science in a fun, Web-based learning environment, BASF Turf & Ornamentals has launched a new online training module to educate golf course superintendents on its Trinity™ fungicide.

2008 Golf Industry Show - Golf course superintendents, lawn care operators and nursery growers can save intensive weeding labor and costs on more than 350 species of ornamentals with grass selective, postemergent Segment™ herbicide from BASF Turf & Ornamentals.

2008 Golf Industry Show - As environmental stewards, all turf professionals, including golf course superintendents, continually seek ways to minimize their impact. New flexible packaging from BASF Turf & Ornamentals helps them meet that objective by reducing the amount of plastic introduced into the waste stream by 60 percent compared with traditional hard-plastic jugs.

BASF Crop Protection today announced it has agreed to provide limited access to triticonazole fungicide to Bayer Environmental Science for United States and Canadian turf and landscape ornamental uses. The supply agreement between BASF and Bayer is for certain uses including professional sports turf, golf, landscaping, and professional lawn care. BASF maintains all the rights to the active ingredient to sell the compound in all the markets where it is registered.

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