I'm a speaker at #GIS17

That's right, I will be attending this year's Golf Industry Show in Orlando Florida and will be doing a number of talks. I hope to meet up and talk with everyone I have met over the years on social media and am really looking forward to this event.

I will be involved with 4 presentations during the week.

On Monday Feb 6th at 3:30pm I will be taking part in the environmental panel discussion where we will discuss;

SUCCESSFUL LOW-INPUT TURF MANAGEMENT: IS IT PRACTICAL?

I am very excited to join Doug Soldat, Matthew Crowther, and Chris Tritabaugh for this discussion. I've already seen their presentations and can say that you won't want to miss this.

On Tuesday, Feb 7th at 9am I will be taking part in the lightning round presentations. These presentations are from a wide variety of people and are only 2 minutes long each! I will be sharing the craziest things I have observed over the years on my golf course. This is sure to be a lot of fun.

On Tuesday, Feb 7th at 1pm I will be co-leading a Seminar with Larry Stowell from Pace Turf

MLSN GUIDELINES AND GROWTH POTENTIAL

SOLD OUT!

I am very excited to be a part of this seminar because the MLSN has changed the way I manage turf over the past 5 years. The really cool thing about this seminar is that it will have one of the MLSN's creators presenting along with my 5 years of practical experience. This seminar promises to give you the best scientific but also practical introduction into the MLSN guidelines and how they can benefit your operation.

Finally, On Wednesday Feb 8th I will be doing a short presentation and demo of digital job board technology on the trade show floor.

This will be my first time to Florida and the GIS and I can't wait to meet everyone there!

Turfgrass speedo is still my most important tool for managing turf growth after 4 years.

It wasn't the easiest year for growing grass , but the conditions were still pretty good. Almost 4 years ago exactly, I came up with the idea of comparing actual clipping yields to the "ideal" clipping yield or the clipping yield adjusted using the Growth Potential Model . Since then, it has proved to be a much more useful tool to manage growth than I originally thought . It has been almost a decade since I started making observations on plant health and playability and how it relates to the clipping yield. I have been constantly searching for ways to get the growth rate right as often as I can and this tool seems to be the best way I have seen so far, and might ultimately, be the best way going forward. To prove this point I will discuss in a future post, the success I've had with pest control in the past few years (for the most part (Not withstanding the times where I think my greens are dead but they actually aren't...thanks T)). Never needed less There are ...

Do you have enough?

I recently discussed how we can use fertilizer ratios to simplify how much fertilizer we apply to help us keep above the MLSN guidelines . When we get a soil test done it is a static amount of nutrients found in the soil. Even if you are above the MLSN guidelines at the time of testing, it doesn't guarantee that you will remain at or above the guidelines as the grass grows and consumes nutrients. There is math that you can use to determine exactly how much nutrient you need to apply to ensure that you remain at or above the MLSN guidelines. For many, this is much too complicated. For that reason I made a quick cheat sheet to help you determine how much of each nutrient you can expect to use each year based off a few different annual nitrogen rates. Nutrient use is based primarily on nitrogen use so the left 2 columns are a few different nitrogen rates. The columns for each nutrient are in PPM and are designed to help you look at your current soil test PPM (mehlich 3) and determin...

How to quantify nutrient content in liquid fertilizer

In a recent post, I discussed how it was actually cheaper to spray soluble vs granular fertilizer. What about if we use pre-mixed liquid fertilizer? How do we even figure out how much nutrient we are applying with pre-mixed liquid fertilizer? Before I learned that you could simply dissolve soluble fertilizer in water and apply it in a sprayer, I was a big user of pre-mixed liquid fertilizers. One of the issues I initially had was figuring out exactly how much of each nutrient I was applying. The math wasn't as straightforward is it was with granular fertilizers. It turns out, it's actually not that difficult but requires an extra step. First, we need to convert the liquid volume into a mass. Many products will have the product density displayed on the label or you can look in the Safety Data Sheet (SDS) for that information as well. No SDS? Should you be using products without an SDS? Even if this information isn't included on the label it is very easy to figure out. All ...

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