The Canada goose: A wildlife success story?
Did wildlife professionals do their job too well? Surprisingly to many Americans, Canada geese (Branta canadensis) were almost extirpated from most of...
Accurate job costing
Job costing is one of the most important tasks you can do for your company. Unfortunately, many owners are too busy to job cost or their dislike of math...
Some like it hot
So you want a grass that can take the summer heat. Who doesn't? That's arguably the toughest time for turf, and if you can find a turfgrass that thrives...
Trench warfare
You have just finished laying the pipe and you feel the satisfaction of a job that's coming together. However, if you used a conventional trencher, the...
Taking the HEAT
It's a 95F day in July, and one of your hardest-working employees has been mowing all afternoon. You notice he looks a bit pale and is sweating profusely....
Boost your image
What can help your company make a memorable first impression, give your customers an added sense of security and motivate your employees to take greater...
GPS: Fertilizing with silicon
Instituting the Global Positioning System, generally referred to as GPS, has totally changed management of transportation, agriculture and power utilities....
Water: Don't take it for granted
In my home town in Central California, the city provided free water. Well, almost free. For a flat fee (and a small one at that), water use was unlimited....
Nice spread!
Most grounds managers know that spreaders require periodic calibration and maintenance, and they know that if they don't calibrate, application rates...
RESEARCHING MAINTENANCE
Pheromone traps I'm trying to find a supplier for pheromone traps. I am particularly interested in lilac/ash borer, peach borer and possibly other tree...
Standing strong
A weed problem in newly established turf often means that one of the steps required to establish the turf has failed. To minimize competition from weeds,...
SHORT CUTS
Cherry trees blamed for foal deaths Researchers and horse owners have been scrambling to find the cause of several hundred foal deaths in Kentucky this...
RESEARCH UPDATE: WATER TREATMENT RESIDUALS
As most people are aware, drinking water is treated before distribution to users. Coagulation and flocculation are the processes by which various materials...
CORRECTION
In our May Chemical Update on ornamental pesticides, we incorrectly listed the supplier of Compass fungicide as Syngenta. Compass is a Bayer product....
Dry spell lingers
Some landscapers may have to rely more heavily on irrigation this summer. Recent dry weather has caused drought conditions in certain areas of the country....
Heads up
Whether you're selecting sprinklers for an existing irrigation system or starting from scratch, you have a variety of types and sizes from which to choose....
HOW TO: Retrofit to drip
As water becomes more scarce and more expensive for commercial irrigation applications, many maintenance superintendents are recommending the conversion...
PRODUCT PARADE
Equipment OUT-FRONT ROTARY MOWERS Jacobsen's Turfcat 600 out-front rotary mowers are available in either 2- or 4-wheel drive. They feature a 26-hp Kubota...
Drainage Problems?
Water has to go somewhere, right? When it rains or when you irrigate, water runs off, soaks in or evaporates, but it doesn't just disappear. What happens...
Improving herbicide performance with adjuvants
Landscape and turfgrass managers use herbicides to control weeds quickly and effectively. To increase the effectiveness of herbicides, they sometimes...
The living earth
A fascinating but little-understood aspect of soil is its biological component. More living organisms occur in soil than in all other ecosystems combined....
STEPS TO A THRIVING LAWN-CARE BUSINESS
Success depends on several variables. Whether you want to start a lawn-care company or improve your present lawn-care business, certain guidelines will...
Introduce your customers to irrigation
Few areas in North America receive so much rainfall that irrigation isn't necessary. In most regions of the United States, turf needs extra water more...
Encountering resistance
Insects cause millions of dollars in damage to woody ornamental plants each year. In addition, these pests are often expensive to manage. You must not...
CHEMICAL UPDATE: ORNAMENTAL CONTROLS
Turf may seem to get all the attention, but a wide variety of effective products is available to treat pest problems of ornamentals. Good thing, too....
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