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Last Chance Meetings Lead to Educational High

California Turfheads need the education hours that our wonderful state government requires for being a Qualified Pesticide applicator. It’s not a stiff requirement, a few hours of Laws and Regs and a...

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My Perspective On The Most Important Part

It’s time. Recent forum discussions, people asking me and even Herr Peter have prompted me to get with it and talk about soils. I’m told that this is one of the things that people want to hear most...

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Humus Part 1: Not Dirty, Hairy!

The Difference between Dirt and Soil has to do with this amazing word: Humus. I love humus. I do. I spend time contemplating how it works, what it is about and how it affects everything that we do in...

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Humus Part 2: You Need Fungus, Brother!

When the word Fungus is mentioned, Turfheads often run for the spray rig. Regardless if you want to talk pesticide free turf or not, there has to be a better discussion on Fungi and the resulting role...

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Humus Part 3: Couldnt Stand The Weather?

I’ll never forget the first time that I saw Stevie Ray Vaughn play. I can’t. Because way before I ever saw him, I heard him. A friend who was a friend of a friend who was a roadie for The Police swore...

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A Day In The Life of Wilber Video Part 1

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A Day In The Life of Wilber… Video, Part 2

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A Day in the life of Wilber… Video, Part 2.2

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A Day In The Life of Wilber, Part 3

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A Day In The Life of Wilber, Part 4

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A Day In The Life of Wilber, Part 5

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A Day In The Life of Wilber, Part 6

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A Day In The Life of Wilber, Part 7

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A Day In The Life of Wilber, Part 8.

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Today’s Turfhead Poll, March 31

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April Fools Update 2011

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Wilber’s View From The Road 4/5/2011

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Video: View From The Road: 4/8/2011

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Video: View From The Road 4/16/2011

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Video: Vision From The Road, Syngenta Wellness Van

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Video: Vision From The Road, Aetna Springs

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Video: View From The Road, SF Giants

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Video: Vision From The Road, Sun City Roseville

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Video: View From The Road, US Open 2011

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Fairway Stress Conditioning: Primo Edition

I’ve got some definite ideas as it comes to pre-stress and early-stress conditioning of fairways. The first of these ideas is to use a growth regulator. If you’ve never done this or fiddled with doing...

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Flushing the Faux Flush

For the sake of discussion spanning geography, lets just assume that in most climates, at some point, push-up or all sand greens need to be flushed. Today I’m thinking about the word Flush and what it...

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Roll Your Greens, Mow The Clubhouse Lawn

I’m a huge fan of rolling and it’s time, you monkey, to roll! And I think that this time the art of doing something that a lot of us have said was good is actually going to be backed by the Science. At...

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Hats Off To Atlanta Athletic Club In The Race To Beat The Tweeters

My twitter feed started going off and then emails and then texts. All of it about AAC and reports, big ugly reports of big ugly damage. It was this tweet that seemed to be at the heart of it all:...

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Another Tip of The Cap Mangum from Feherty

There are times when it is just too much fun to get some credit and by goodness we don’t get enough. When everything and everyone does what they should in event golf, then a lot of people nod their...

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Sometimes You Gotta Stink Up The Joint

I’m convinced that one of the main reasons that Turfheads dont embrace the concept of application of Organic Fertilizers is pretty simple—It Stinks. Seriously. Who really wants to offend the olfactory...

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There Is Stuff To Be Thankful For And Stuff To Loathe

This is the time of year when people find reasons to list what they are thankful for. I’ve never been much for doing what everyone does. And I’m not real big on lists either. The creative types and...

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Water and soils management: to flush or not to flush

In most of my travels where water is an issue or drought is ruling or where reclaimed is the coming possibility, we have to deal with management of salts. So that can be the #1 driving force in...

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Sierra Pacific Spring Symposium Live Blog Begins!

I’m excited. I haven’t slept in a couple days. My biggest event of the year is finally here. Months of organizing coming down to my printing name tags early this morning and driving the hour and a half...

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Spring Symposium, Dr. Clarke of Rutgers

Dr. Bruce Clarke of Rutgers talks about Fairy Ring and Pink Snow Mold. Big take away is that Bayleton very effective on Fairy Ring. Products applied before symptoms make for good control as long as...

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Spring Symposium, Dr. Fred Yelverton, NC State

It’s clear that Dr. Fred isn’t from around here. The accent is like smooth Carolina sweet tea. But the only Tea he’s talking about today has to do with Plant Growth Regulators. (sorry Dr. Fred. No...

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Spring Symposium, Dr. Frank Wong

I can’t hold it against him. Dr. Wong wanted to be with his wife in the DC area and well let’s face it, The University of California system is pretty much on life support. So now, Dr. Wong takes up...

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Spring Symposium, Joel Simmons

I can’t find a decent picture anywhere of Joel Simmons and it’s too dark to take a good picture, so this will have to do.  Joel is on a mission. He’s good at it and he’s taken way to much crap for...

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Spring Symposium Day 2, Dr Bruce Clarke and Feast Recap

I love early morning meetings. 7:30 AM and we get hit with words like Systemic Acquired Resistance and Activator Triggers. It’s a warm yummy feeling, like maple syrup over bacon and waffles and I...

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Of Salts and Trees and Magic BioStimulants

I received this today in my email from a source that shall go unnamed because she/he/it is dumb enough to use the word Doctor around my name. Kind of like using the word Beautiful around Susan Boyle....

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Tonic for Spring Confusion

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused....

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Time For A Little Transition

Its time for all of us to go through some kind of Transition.  For the Turfhead, it usually happens sometime before Memorial Day. Regardless of what sort of climate you find yourself going to war in,...

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There Is A Big White Sandwich-Making Sweater-Folding Elephant In My Truck

The largely unrealized goal this year was to write more blog posts. Inside of that goal has been my deep-seated desire to make Maestro Peter happy. He’d be hog slop happy with more agronomy writing...

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Water Is No Good If It Cannot Get In The Ground

Coming into summer, I’d like to talk about water for a few posts. It’s the thing that I seem to get the most questions about this time of year and it’s the thing that I see the most mistakes being made...

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Continuing to Classify Your Water

I’ve really enjoyed the feedback I’ve gotten in the field and in email about the idea of looking hard at irrigation water. Thanks for that! And the really important thing I’m hearing is the need for...

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A Guide to Yummy Tank Mixing Cocktails

I’d like to take a quick break from the water quality thing to share a recent experience from the field. Everybody tank mixes fertility products. In some form or another, you put stuff in the spray...

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Summertime Feeding?

The common question that I seem to be getting in the last few weeks has to do with feeding greens. While there can’t be a universal rule set for all the different climates we all work in, there are a...

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A Moment of Gratitude

To this day, I really don’t know what happened. I’ve heard some stories and have a few paper trail type details, but that’s it. After a string of 2,000 mile weeks, a notable in the golf world fumbling...

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Vulcan Guide to Soil Testing

Soil Testing. It’s that time of year when most Turfheads are gonna pull some soil tests. My experience is that for many (if not most) this is done as kind of a box check. You know you have to do it,...

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Bending or Breaking?

In my current, often schizophrenic situation, I find myself involved in the whole concept of Early Order Season. As I write this, there are no less than thirteen “programs” that in some way or another...

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An Open Letter to a Job Poster

(I’m so completely baffled by a recent “change” at a club and the resulting communication around it that I needed to let some angst out of my fingers. You may be able to guess the details. Fine. Good...

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