News and people briefs

 

LebanonTurf recently launched Proscape Fertilizer with Acelepryn plus Dimension, a combination product with fertilizer, insecticide and herbicide that controls and protects against grubs and crabgrass all season long.

 

Proscape Fertilizer with Acelepryn plus Dimension is designed for just one spring application in most environments. Applications include golf course fairways, tees, collars and roughs, plus athletic fields, established home and commercial lawns, office complexes, parks, playgrounds, schools and day-care facilities. 

 

Proscape fertilizer features patented MESA, Meth-Ex and Expo nutrient components. The Acelepryn insecticide (chlorantraniliprole) combats grubs, caterpillars and weevils, as well as chinch bugs and billbugs. Also, the Dimension herbicide (dithiopyr) kills and prevents crabgrass, goosegrass and Poa annua, among other unwanted grasses and weeds.

 

Registration for the Sustainable Turfgrass Management in Asia 2016 conference, at Pattaya from March 7 to 9, is open. All the information is on the conference website, www.asianturfseminar.com.

 

Slides and handouts from last year's show are available for download, and photos from the 2015 conference give a preview of what to expect in 2016. Other speakers for this year's event include Jim Kerns, Ph.D., of North Carolina State, and Elizabeth Guertal, Ph.D., of Auburn University.

 

In advance of the show, here are a few things Micah Woods, Ph.D., of the Asian Turfgrass Center has been up to.

 

> three most-viewed posts from ATC's Viridescent blog:

 

> TurfNet webinar on MLSN Guidelines: what they are, and how to use them.

 

> Three episodes of Frankly Speaking on TurfNet

 

> Article in GCM China.

 

> The 2015 Global Soil Survey.

 

> The Turfgrass Zealot Project on TurfNet with Dave Wilber.

 

Click here for more information on this year's conference.

 

Michael Bamberger, a senior writer for Sports Illustrated and author of several books on golf, has been named the recipient of the Donald Ross Award by the American Society of Golf Course Architects. 

 

The award, given annually since 1976, is presented to a person who has made a significant contribution to the game of golf and the profession of golf course architecture. It will be presented to Bamberger at the 2016 ASGCA Annual Meeting on April 24 in Bethesda, Maryland.

 

A native of Patchogue, New York, Bamberger was introduced to golf in an eighth-grade gym class. He first played on the public courses of Suffolk County and on the Patchogue-Medford High School golf team. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania he became a newspaper reporter, working for the Vineyard Gazette, on Martha's Vineyard, and later for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Since 1995, Bamberger has been a senior writer at Sports Illustrated. 

 

His books on golf include "The Green Road Home" (1986), about his experiences as a caddie on the PGA Tour in 1985; "To the Linksland" (1992), about an extended honeymoon trip Bamberger and his wife, Christine, made on the European golf tour and through coastal Scotland; and "Men in Green" (2015), a then-and-now look at various golf legends from the 1970s. He is the inventor of The E-Club, a utility golf club for which he was issued a patent.

 

Bamberger joins an impressive list of journalists who have received the Donald Ross Award, including Bradley S. Klein, Herbert Warren Wind, Peter Dobereiner, Charles Price, Dick Taylor, Ron Whitten, George Peper and James Dodson.

 

 

Riverside Turf of Charles City, Virginia, recently launched Sod Production Services.

 

Sod Production Services was formed to fund research for and market new turfgrass varieties to licensed sod producers to grow proprietary grasses, and to offer agronomic consulting services to the turf industry. Al Hunter has joined Sod Production Services as its director of business development. The first grass in the Sod Production Services portfolio is PremierPRO Bermudagrass.

 

Hunter will work with Riverside Turf's Brian Walker to create a new business model in the turfgrass licensing segment that focuses on a team approach to sod production, sales and distribution with a dedication to science-based claims, customer support and agronomic consultancy.

 

PremierPRO is a dense, fine-bladed Bermudagrass developed by Milt Engelke, Ph.D., at Texas A&M and Virginia Lehman, Ph.D. for wear tolerance.