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My Second Office: Scott Griffith, UGA Golf Course

July 16, 2015 By Grant Gannon

About our host The University of Georgia football team plays its games in Sanford Stadium “between the hedges,” but its golf teams know home as the Robert Trent Jones-designed UGA Golf Course in Athens, Ga. The manager of that home, ...

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The 19th Hole: Jared Nemitz

July 16, 2015 By Seth Jones

Superintendent // The Peninsula Club, Cornelius, N.C. After 18 holes, what’s your drink of choice? A perfectly blended Coca-Cola. You just hosted 40 supers. What was the occasion? It was an Ultradwarf Putting Green Surface Management seminar put on by the ...

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Anuvia Plant Nutrients appoints Amy Yoder to CEO

July 15, 2015 By Joelle Harms

Anuvia Plant Nutrients, a new plant nutrient company to be headquartered in Zellwood, Fla., has hired Amy Yoder as its CEO. Anuvia is focused on a new, innovative and patented way of manufacturing an enhanced efficiency fertilizer (EEF) for the ...

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Agri-Turf adds new sales representative

July 10, 2015 By Joelle Harms

Agri-Turf Distributing has announced in a news release Joel Brinkman as the company’s newest sales representative. Brinkman will provide products, service and support to golf courses, sports turf facilities and public agencies from Southern California to the Central Valley. “Joel is ...

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Bayer appoints Jacqueline Applegate head of Environmental Science

July 1, 2015 By Joelle Harms

Effective July 1, Jacqueline Applegate, Ph. D., is head of Environmental Science, the non-agricultural business operations unit of Bayer CropScience. Applegate, who will be based at the unit’s headquarters in Lyon, France, succeeds Gunnar Riemann, Ph.D., who has decided to leave the ...

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Syngenta adds two new T&O territory managers

June 25, 2015 By Joelle Harms

Syngenta has added two new territory managers to its turf and ornamental (T&O) business: Adam Garr will be working with turf customers in the lower peninsula of Michigan, and Chris Threadgill will be responsible for the ornamental business in 13 Midwestern ...

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