Yesterday I responded to two questions related to carbon emissions associated with electricity generation. This was part of a broader discussion started by Jason Haines about small electric autonomous mowers. Mike Richardson asked, “If I have to use the local electric company to charge the batteries and their power source... [Read More]

I received this email from Zachary LaPorte, and I share it here for two reasons. First, he’s expressed a number of things related to the measurement of #ClipVol that I have heard from many turfgrass managers who’ve implemented this technique. These observations are of general interest and he’s expressed them... [Read More]

Last year I wrote about a soil temperature turfhack. The soil temperature is almost always between the day’s high and low temperature. The soil temperature at a 5 cm depth immediately after planting manilagrass stolons on 22 April. I was at Bangsai Country Club last week to plant some manilagrass... [Read More]

In the ATC update sent earlier this week—subscribe here if you’d like to get on this list—I mentioned that one of the highlights of my year so far was the Royal Turf Family Seminar at the Park Hyatt Tokyo. Mr. Hanzawa, the president of Royal Turf Company, had the presentations... [Read More]

The 2006 to 2016 era ATC website always had a library or turf info page where I made a number of articles and reference documents available for download. With this current website, I didn’t have something quite like that, so today I made one. You can find it here, with... [Read More]