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| You Need to Watch and Listen to This Talk By the CMAA's Jim Singerling
| Are you down in the dumps about the state of the world? Join the crowd. But if you listen to this talk given by one of the golf industry's leaders, you might just feel a little better about things. | | | Pesticides And Democrats
| | Neil Cleveland, director of the U.S. Green Business for Bayer Environmental Science, talks about what the future holds for pesticides in a Democratic-dominated government in this podcast with Golfdom Editor in Chief Larry Aylward. | | | What Happened to Fertilizer Prices?
| | Mike Bandy, marketing manager for Andersons Golf Products, explains why fertilizer prices have risen and where they are headed in a video interview with Golfdom. Click here to see the video. | | | "A Critical Juncture"
| | Allen James urges pesticide and fertilizer industry representatives to go on the offensive to promote their products in a safe light in his Sept. 3 address at the Responsible Industry for a Sound Environment's (RISE) annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Click here to see an excerpt of his speech. | | | One Man's Take on Golf and the Environment
| | Joe Hubbard, director of golf maintenance at the Broken Sound Club in Boca Raton, Fla., went into golf course maintenance because he knew the job would enable him to work outside. Hubbard is an avid outdoorsman. He's an environmentalist. Golfdom Editor in Chief Larry Aylward recently caught up with Hubbard at the Broken Sound Club and asked him the question: What does it mean for golf courses to function in harmony with the environment? Watch Hubbard give his well-rounded answer in this video. | | | On Donald's Design
| | Geoff Shackelford weighs in on Oakland Hills' South Course, the Donald Ross gem and site of the 2008 PGA Championship, in this podcast with Golfdom's Larry Aylward. Click here to hear it. | | | Banking on Biofuels
| | Marvel Golf Club's Christopher S. Gray Sr. discusses how he converts vegetable oil into biodiesel to help fuel his golf course's operation. | | | Torrey Pines Revisited
| | While Tiger stole the show, Mark Woodward quietly went out on a high note. | | | Grub Busters
| | Chuck Silcox, global turf and ornamental product development manager for DuPont Professional Products, discusses grub control in this interview with Golfdom's Larry Aylward. | |  MORE ARTICLES
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| Half Full or Half Empty?
| | GCSAA conducting study to measure water use. | | | Think Water
| | Rain Bird and an assortment of "students" went back to school recently at the University of Arizona (UA). Glendora, Calif.-based Rain Bird held its third Intelligent Use of Water Summit Aug. 31 on the UA campus in Tucson. | | | Think Water
| | Rain Bird takes attendees to school to learn "intelligence use of water" at fourth summit. | | | A New Look
| | Irrigation Association sports smart new logo and tagline. | | | What a Wild Year
| | It was exciting, transformational, controversial, wacky and — like everything else — affected by the slow economy | | | Water Wise: Less is More
| | While most superintendents consider themselves responsible users of water, they realize they can do even more to be better stewards | | | Water Wise: Undoing Overseeding
| | When the discussion came up at Marriott Golf concerning two properties in southern Florida that had long been overseeded in the winter, it was decided there didn't seem to be a good reason to continue the practice of carpeting the course in green during the season. | | | People of the Year
| | Without these folks, the golf course industry would be minus a lot of integrity and character | | | Getting Out the Word
| | It doesn't matter if Mark Jarrell is in a deep sleep or his body begs him not to rise from his bed at 3 a.m. If a thunderstorm awakens Jarrell in the middle of the night, he will get up, put on some clothes and make the short drive to the maintenance facility to shut off his golf course's irrigation system. The last thing Jarrell wants to do is squander water on his golf course, the Palm Beach National Golf and Country Club in Lake Worth, Fla., where he is the certified superintendent. | | | MORE ARTICLES
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| Dealing with Dreaded Disease
| | Kyle Miller, the senior technical specialist for BASF Corporation, sheds light on how to diagnose and combat turf disease outbreaks in this interview with Golfdom Editor in Chief Larry Aylward. Click here to listen to this podcast. | | | Shack on the U.S. Open
| | Geoff Shackelford discusses the changes at Oakmont Country Club, site of next week's U.S. Open. | | | Golf and the Other Side of the World
| | Frequent flyer Gregg Breningmeyer, director of sales and marketing for John Deere Golf & Turf One Source, talks with Golfdom's Larry Aylward about golf's growing markets in Asia, where he spends an ample amount of time. Click here to hear this podcast. | | | Extinguishing Fire Ants
| | Chuck Silcox, global turf and ornamental product development manager for Dupont Professional Products, talks about fire ant control on golf courses with Golfdom Editor in Chief Larry Aylward. | | | Revving Up for Biodiesel Technology
| | Steve Wood, manager of The Toro Co.'s commercial test engineering department, discusses the company's role in implementing biodiesel technology with Golfdom's Larry Aylward in this podcast. | | | Talking Augusta
| | Golfdom Editor in Chief Larry Aylward asks golf architecture expert Geoff Shackelford (left) what he likes and dislikes about the famed course, site of the Masters. Listen to this Podcast. | | | Back in the U.S.A.
| | In this podcast, Neil Cleveland discusses his first year — and the challenges that came with it — as the managing director of Bayer Environmental Science, a position he assumed on April 3, 2006. | | | Better Safe
| | In this podcast, Dave Ross, technical manager for turf and ornamental products at Syngenta Professional Products, discusses the long-awaited release of Meridian insecticide, which has been in the works since 1995. Ross provides a behind-the-scenes view of the Environmental Protection Agency approval process with a new pesticide. Click here for his interview with Golfdom's Larry Aylward during the Golf Industry Show. | | | You Might Want This Joe to Join Your Course
| | Golf course superintendents need more people like Joe Theismann — who has learned to appreciate what they mean to a golf course's operations — on their sides. | | | MORE ARTICLES
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| Simple Approach Is Not Always So Easy
| | It might appear the maintenance and construction of sand greens would be easy, low cost and environmentally friendly | | | Summer Brings Fun, Sun and LDS
| | LDS is found across a wide range of soil conditions, especially sandy soils | | | Makes Sens-ors
| | Water is the big issue for many golf courses, what with the belief among superintendents that one day there might not be enough of it for irrigation. But not according to Robert Criste, vice president of sales for Golflinx, a manufacturer of soil sensors. | | | One-Two Punch
| | It was late August near Atlanta and as dry as the Sahara Desert. It was also feverishly hot, as it usually is that time of year in the South. | | | Give 'Em What They Want
| | The putting greens are where a lot of green — as in mucho dinero — is invested in the golf course. The putting greens are also where golf course superintendents are often graded for their agronomic abilities. | | | Right on Line
| | They might not need to be fast, but they had better be consistent. Whether you manage a par-3, daily-fee track or a possible U.S. Open venue, golfers expect greens to be in harmony with each other. | | | PGRs Prevail
| | Business for plant growth regulators is booming. Once viewed as a luxury among superintendents with large budgets less than a decade ago, the chemical innovation has offered superintendents ways to produce healthier plants, denser turfgrass, greener color and overall more consistent conditions for golfers. | | | How To Kill 36 Greens At Once
| | Golf maintenance company fries putting greens at Hains Point. | | | More Than Height of Cut
| | Green speeds reflect multiple maintenance practices. | | | MORE ARTICLES
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