I am off to the Brookside Labs Summer Conference on Sunday afternoon. It is in Lake Geneva, WI. I get to do a talk on the Core samples we do on the greens and it should be a good three days. It will be nice...
Last weekend most of us got a big rain. I collected rain water samples as I do every so often. One was in a metal pot and one was in a rubber mixing bowl. I had recently been told by someone much smarter than me,...
Another great trip to Las Vegas! Very hot and in the 110 range every day. It is hard to believe these guys do what they do there sometimes. Here are a couple articles on the California courses and their need to conserve water…. http://www.lodinews.com/news/article_8e0544da-0110-11e5-b035-8bcf31ed3ffd.html http://cqrcengage.com/gcsaa/app/document/7964511...
On the road again! I am in SoCal for this week seeing nice weather and good clients. Spent the day today with a sand supplier looking at some options for fairway topdressing for the area. I am in Aliso Viejo tonight and Bakersfield tomorrow night....
A good research project talking about the affect of nitrogen on the newer cultivars of bentgrass. http://gcmdigital.gcsaa.org/i/500238-may-2015/104...
Still out on the road but I had some time to look at this good article on goose grass………… http://www.gcsaa.org/gcm-magazine/2015/may/goosegrass-the-new-king-of-turfgrass-weeds...
I am just starting to get around and see courses in the NJ area. Soil temperatures are still fluctuating between 50 and 55 degrees even though the air temperatures and the sunny days make things seem nicer. It is still a little cool for grass...
Hopefully this link will work and you can read the article on Nitrogen applications via spraying. It was in a recent GCM Magazine. Hitting the road tomorrow in NJ. I hope the rain holds off until I am done sampling!! http://gcmdigital.gcsaa.org/i/485836-apr-2015/100 ...
This year we have been busy upgrading or getting new equipment to keep the laboratory optimized. We recently added 2 more one of a kind, state of art, pH robots, which now brings us to 4 in the soils lab. These are the only pH...
Check out the research on Princess 77 vs. Riviera seeding of bermudagrass. Still waiting for some real Spring weather. Soil temperatures on sand based green in PA last week at 33.7 degrees! http://www.academicjournals.org/article/article1426762630_Batista%20et%20al.pdf ...