Alabama Turfgrass Association | Spring 2019
This issue includes tips on how to best use diagnostic and soil lab services. Also features a bent grass success story as well as recent events!
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Departments
From the President’s PenATA Annual SponsorsIntroduction to #TheTurfZoneCalendar of Events
By Melanie Bonds | ATA Executive Director
In the fourth year since its inception, the Deep South Turf Expo is coalescing into a permanent fixture on the Mississippi Coast.
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By Melanie Bonds | ATA Executive Director
The Road Show program is an ever-popular hit with our membership. Once again, this year, Drs. Dave Han and Jim Jacobi did a great job lining up the education.
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Reflections on a Career Well Spent |
In 1991 Dennis Weber was working as a Superintendent at Wade Hampton Golf Club in Cashiers, North Carolina. He answered an ad for the superintendent’s position at Wynlakes Country Club in Montgomery and spent the next twenty-seven years there until...
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By Ian Thompson | originally published in Thompson Tees Off
I have two children who attend Auburn University, but their choice of college has no bearing on this story. It is a nice side-note though, that when I told them about AU Victory, they both at first thought I was...
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By Dave Han, Ph.D. and Jim Jacobi, Ph.D. |
Soil testing is vital to successfully growing any plant. Turfgrasses are no exceptions. But turfgrasses grow very differently to most other crops, so sampling and implementing recommendations are different in turfgrasses from most crops.
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