Industry News

Jacobsen launches TurfCat rotary mower

August 13, 2014 By
Jacobsen, a Textron Company, launched its TurfCat out-front rotary mower. The multi-purpose machine provides the lowest cost of ownership in its class, according to the company, and features an all-hydraulic deck and traction drives. The new TurfCat costs less to maintain because ...

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Spring Valley adds sales rep to fertilizer team

August 13, 2014 By
Spring Valley, a manufacturer of professional and retail fertilizers and ice melters, named Chad Fagervik to its sales team. Fagervik brings with him 25 years of experience in professional turf management sales. Fagervik spent the last four years of his career with ...

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Dow AgroSciences Gallery SC specialty herbicide receives federal registration

August 13, 2014 By
Dow AgroSciences has received federal registration of its new liquid formulation Gallery SC specialty herbicide. The suspension concentrate formulation provides plant tolerance and long-lasting control of more than 95 species of broadleaf weeds – including chickweed, spurge and oxalis – for up to six to eight ...

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Grassing of the Olympic Golf Course in Rio underway

August 13, 2014 By
Green Grass Brazil began installing Zeon Zoysia grass and SeaDwarf Seashore paspalum on the Olympic Golf Course because just two years from now, in August 2016, golf will return as an Olympic sport for the first time in more than a century. Marcelo Matte, owner ...

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Dow AgroSciences adds two to T&O team

August 8, 2014 By
Two sales representatives were appointed to Dow AgroSciences‘ turf and ornamental (T&O) team: Tyler Patton and Elyssa Trejo. Patton accepted a role in Maryland after joining Dow AgroSciences last June as a T&O sales trainee covering eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey. In his new territory, ...

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Aquatrols appoints new international accounts manager

August 8, 2014 By
Aquatrols hired Matthew Bywater as its new international accounts manager in the Pacific Rim. Bywater joins the Aquatrols team with years of experience in the turfgrass industry. He has previously served in sales and marketing positions with the Australian Turfgrass Institute, ...

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