With scorching heat expected to give way to scattered thunderstorms during weekend play at the PGA Championship, a Rutgers-developed product will be put to the test at Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield… “Anywhere cool-season grasses are being grown in a sports stadium, there’s a very good possibility that it’s a Rutgers grass — maybe not the entire stadium, but part of it,” James A. Murphy, Rutgers’ extension specialist in turfgrass management, told Rutgers Today. “It’s sold all over the world.”

New federal standards for protecting agricultural workers and their families from pesticide exposure will come into effect in January, and officials were at a farm here Wednesday to talk about the changes… “Extension offices will help get the word out through educational materials and workshops offered to farmers in the off season,” said Pat Hastings, Pesticide Safety Education Program Coordinator for New Jersey Cooperative Extension. “We will work in cooperation with each county, that’s the only way we can reach everyone,” Hastings said.