Maintenance

Plant Health Part 3: Top tips for surviving summer

July 22, 2015 By Clark Throssell, Ph.D.

These tips from four industry experts can help superintendents beat the heat. Creeping bentgrass (Agrostis stolonifera) and annual bluegrass (Poa annua) putting greens experience some degree of heat stress nearly every summer. The amount of damage from heat stress varies ...

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EarthWay purchases White Castle PSB spreader division

July 15, 2015 By Joelle Harms

EarthWay Products, an equipment manufacturer based in Bristol, Ind., purchased the PSB spreader division of White Castle, in Columbus, Ohio. EarthWay will produce the Prizelawn brand product and market them through the Prizelawn dealer network. PSB is the maker of ...

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Hunter acquires Alex-Tronix’ irrigation products

June 25, 2015 By Joelle Harms

Hunter Industries has acquired all landscape irrigation products, patents and trademarks from Alex-Tronix Controls of Fresno, Calif. Alex-Tronix has provided irrigation controller technology for the commercial landscape and agricultural irrigation industries since 1977. “For more than 30 years, George Alexanian and Alex-Tronix have developed ...

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Georgia GCSA updates sports complex for boys in foster care system

June 22, 2015 By Joelle Harms

Members of the Georgia Golf Course Superintendents Association (Georgia GCSA) have completed the latest phase of a sports complex renovation for boys in the state’s foster care system. The sports complex at Goshen Valley Boys Ranch in Waleska, Ga., about an ...

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Underhill offers metal nozzles for water conservation

May 19, 2015 By Joelle Harms

Underhill International‘s Profile nozzles may replace OEM plastic nozzles that may be clogged or eroded after years of use. With solid brass construction and stainless steel outlets, Underhill says its Profile nozzles improve DU rates up to 85 percent or better, ...

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The Golfdom Files: Prince William windmill cuts electric, water bill

May 18, 2015 By Grant Gannon

Saving money. Everyone wants to do it on their course. ¶ In the July 1980 Golf Business (yes, we had a different name at that time and no, we don’t like to talk about it), Jospeh Gambatese wrote about Billy ...

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