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Turfgrass Seed 2017 Annual publication now available to download
The Buyers Guide to Quality Amenity Turfgrass - Turfgrass Seed 2017 - is available now to download in PDF format.
The development of grass varieties for amenity uses is a long-term, costly and sophisticated business. Plant breeding (crossing, selecting and conducting trials) typically takes a decade or more, before varieties are ready for release into Governmental registration and Industry performance trials.
Subsequent investment in production, stock-holding, manufacturing and marketing is expensive. The exploitation and utilisation of the superior varieties made available by this process require expert guidance and advice.
The purpose of Turfgrass Seed is to report comprehensive results of available varieties in trials designed to test suitability for:
- Use in winter sports pitches, such as football and rugby fields, and municipal recreation areas (Sports Uses Trials).
- Use in lawns, summer sports pitches, tennis courts, turf and general landscaping (Lawns Landscaping, Summer Sports and Turf Trials).
- Use in intensive management as seen on golf and bowling greens (Greens, Close Mown Trials).
Turfgrass Seed presents the best available interpretation of correctly designed, accurately analysed and independently
Syngenta award for
‘champion’ Steve Top award for Operation Pollinator champion
John O’Gaunt Golf Club greenkeeper and regular contributor to Pitchcare, Steve Thompson, has picked up the prestigious Syngenta Operation Pollinator Award, for the golf club’s consistently outstanding ecological habitat creation and management.
The Award was presented to Steve at the Golf Environment Awards ceremony at BTME Harrogate, along with colleagues Kevin Armstrong and Chris Watts of the John O’Gaunt greenkeeping team.
As one of the great champions of the Operation Pollinator initiative -
set up to introduce more bee- friendly wildflower areas around golf courses - Steve has successfully overseen the planting and management of more than three hectares of dedicated habitat; welcomed by the club’s players and a wealth of pollinating insects.
Steve commented: “Operation Pollinator was the instigator of our habitat creation that has now become an integral part of our wider environmental management plan for wildlife and biodiversity around the courses.”
“John O'Gaunt is extremely proud BURNING IN-LINES
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of its reputation for providing consistently high-quality golf playing surfaces, but also managing the surrounding environment that makes it such an attractive place to come and play.”
The buyers guide to quality amenity turfgrasses
Updating events from the Amenity Forum
In 2017, the Amenity Forum is holding a series of free Updating Events at locations across the UK. These events are half day in length and focus on short presentations covering current topics delivered by specialists in these areas.
supervised trials to our collective customer, the professional user of high quality amenity grass cultivars.
You can download the PDF here:
https://www.bspb.co.uk/sg_u serfiles/BSPB_Turfgrass_2017.pdf
If you are interested in attending, or know others who might be, you are advised to register your interest now by emailing Kate Hopkins. She can acknowledge your interest and provide the further information required as and when available. Wherever you live in the UK, there should be an event held not far from you. So whatever your role or interest, register now for these popular free information events. If you are on the Amenity Register, they also carry CPD points.
The dates and locations of the remaining events are as follows:
Yorkshire 2nd March London 7th March Northern Ireland 9th March Cheshire 14th March Essex 23rd March Surrey 28th March Devon 4th April Edinburgh 11th April Durham 12th April
Email Kate Hopkins:
admin@amenityforum.net
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