Press Releases

A cooperative project between the West Virginia Department of Agriculture and Environmental Science, a division of Bayer CropScience LP, is helping to preserve one of the last virgin Hemlock forests in the United States.

Environmental Science, a division of Bayer CropScience LP, announced indaziflam, the herbicidal active ingredient (AI) in Specticle, received an Agrow Award in the category "Best New Crop Protection Product."

When ZOMBIE WEEDS return to turf next spring, three new ZOMBIE WEED Warriors are prepared to fight them, FMC Professional Solutions announced recently.

Lawn and landscape providers, golf course superintendents, industrial vegetation managers, agricultural experts, and product distributors now have a centralized, updated source for professional product solutions information with PBI-Gordon Corporation's unveiling of its new GordonsProfessional.com website.

Jacobsen recently helped open a First Tee youth golf course in Louisville, KY.

Enter your Hydretain® comparison photos(s) in the 2014 Hydretain Photo Contest for a chance to win a Canon Rebel T3i Digital Camera Bundle. This grand prize bundle includes an image stabilizing telephoto lens, camera case and 8GB SD card. Contest entrants will also have a chance to win 2nd and 3rd place prizes along with monthly drawings.

Nearly 100 influential US landscape architects, engineers, testing laboratories, thought leaders and manufacturers met at the Brock International Educational Seminar in October to learn about the latest trends in building safer, more environmentally friendly synthetic turf playing fields. The unique conference featured presentations from award-winning experts on eco-effectiveness, injury prevention and field design.

Team Zoysia International, founded by turf industry experts Dr. Milt Engelke and Arthur Milberger, has been named the exclusive international licensing agent for all proprietary Zoysiagrasses developed by Bladerunner Farms, the world's largest independently owned zoysiagrass research and development facility.

Working together, Campey Turf Care Systems based in Macclesfield, UK and Imants BV, located in Reusel, Holland, have become a formidable team in the development and supply of equipment for sports turf renovation and maintenance to groundsmen and greenkeepers across the world.

Michael Giese, a customer service representative at Netafim USA in Fresno, was taken aback when he opened the USPS package from Afghanistan. Inside was a US flag that had flown over the US military base in Asadabad, Afghanistan. Giese had lead a company-wide campaign at Netafim, an irrigation manufacturer, to prepare morale packs for troops at Forward Operating Base Wright in Asadabad. His fellow employees and local sponsors went all out and gathered more than 350 lbs of popular snacks, healthcare supplies, books and magazines, sporting goods, notebooks and more…and packed them in large cartons which Giese took to the post office.