John Dempsey, Ph.D., looks back over the 40 years he has been in the turfgrass maintenance business. The presenter discusses what maintenance was like when he started and then progresses through all the changes and advancements during the past four decades.
Dempsey covers things like machinery and equipment advancements, how nutritional products, PGRs, surfactants and disease-control inputs have evolved and the role of the greenkeeper’s education in these improvements.