Tangent, OR-Barenbrug USA has hired Jeff McGilvray to be their new Field Representative. McGilvray is a graduate of Oregon State University in both Crop and Soil Science. He has worked in the grass seed industry for over 25 years as...
Global Sports Alliance New York Team Captain, Kevin Trotta, is coordinating a cooperative project for this year’s Ocean Conservancy: International Coastal Cleanup–the world’s largest volunteer coast and waterway cleanup, with hundreds of thousands of participants around the globe. The event...
AccuWeather.com announced the launch of the AccuWeather.com Forums, a place for threaded discussion on a variety of topics. The Forums attracted thousands of users while still in Beta testing and is already proving to be a very popular element for...
Dealers, retailers and lawn & landscape professionals can go online for updates on events and features planned for the 2008 GIE+EXPO (the Green Industry & Equipment Expo). Online registration for the October 23-25 tradeshow in Louisville is available at www.gie-expo.com....
Jacobsen, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, announces the addition of Deanna Duke as its new product manager for the fairway product category – a line that includes the finest and most popular lightweight mowers available to customers in the...
The Ohio Turfgrass Foundation (OTF) 2008 officers and trustees were elected at the association’s annual meeting held December 5, 2007, Columbus, Ohio. Officers elected to serve one-year terms for the 46-year old turfgrass education and research organization, beginning February 1,...
The Professional Landcare Network (PLANET) is pleased to announce the dates and locations where the examinations for the Certified Landscape Professional-Interior and Exterior (CLP), Certified Landscape Technician-Interior (CLT-I), Certified Ornamental Landscape Professional (COLP), and Certified Turfgrass Professional-Cool Season Lawns (CTP-CSL)...
Profile Products and its Turface AthleticsTM business unit recently announced the award winners of two annual awards for the Baseball Coaches Association (BCA).The BCA Groundskeeper/Field of the Year Award was presented to Tim Saunders of Dublin Coffman High School in...
Profile Products and its Turface AthleticsTM business unit recently announced the winners of several annual awards sponsored by the company and given by the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA).Matt Noone of Babson College in Babson Park, Mass. was recognized with...
J. R. Simplot Company and Jacklin Seed’s Dr Doug Brede was the recipient of Turfgrass Producers International (TPI) “Innovator of the Year Award”. Dr. Brede is Research Director at Jacklin Seed in Post Falls, Idaho. Before joining Jacklin Seed in...
