Ep 48 Dr Cale Bigelow and Dr Jada Powlen Purdue University
01/13/25 • 30 min
This is the second time I have had the pleasure of hosting Cale and Jada on the podcast. Since we last met up Jada has now become Dr Jada Powlen as she achieved her PHD and Dr Bigelow led Purdue University to another turf bowl win. Purdue University is in Indiana. The focus of the university is large horticulture crops and what is referred to as row crops. The broad range of the university allows for a range of ideas to adapt turfgrass and really looking at sustainability practices in turf managers. We talk about soil biology, the rhizosphere, and micro biome studies currently taking place.
We also talk about different cool season cultivars and the effort going into making these work better in terms of disease and drought and climate stress.
Check out our updated website
Our Broadleaf herbicides Methar Tri Kombi and Sportsground are back available gain
Emerald Fungicide Video presentation
Links mentioned
The Golfing Greenkeeper Podcast
You Tube channel where our VLOG will be for the US turf conference
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This podcast episode is produced and edited by The Social Media Birdie in conjunction with Colin Campbell Chemicals.
This is the second time I have had the pleasure of hosting Cale and Jada on the podcast. Since we last met up Jada has now become Dr Jada Powlen as she achieved her PHD and Dr Bigelow led Purdue University to another turf bowl win. Purdue University is in Indiana. The focus of the university is large horticulture crops and what is referred to as row crops. The broad range of the university allows for a range of ideas to adapt turfgrass and really looking at sustainability practices in turf managers. We talk about soil biology, the rhizosphere, and micro biome studies currently taking place.
We also talk about different cool season cultivars and the effort going into making these work better in terms of disease and drought and climate stress.
Check out our updated website
Our Broadleaf herbicides Methar Tri Kombi and Sportsground are back available gain
Emerald Fungicide Video presentation
Links mentioned
The Golfing Greenkeeper Podcast
You Tube channel where our VLOG will be for the US turf conference
To apply for the ASTMA CPD points:
• Log into the ASTMA website members section
• Choose ‘manage your CPD’ under the membership tab
• Go to submit activity
• Choose POD as activity code
• Under activity name enter the unique code for this podcast as heard at the end of the episode
This podcast episode is produced and edited by The Social Media Birdie in conjunction with Colin Campbell Chemicals.
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Ep 47 Dr Jim Baird UC Riverside California
In this episode we sit down and speak to Dr Jim Baird from UC Riverside. Not many listeners would know Jim but he has a vast arrange of experience within the turf industry we talk about his time as a USGA Agronomist, as well as his research career. We discuss different turf varieties as Jim is an expert in developing different grasses as well as improving the use of them. He also has done a lot of work dealing with drought conditions and the issues that come with it.
At the time of recording PoaCure had not been registered in California however Dr Baird was instrumental in the first trials for PoaCure in the US and developing PoaCure from an experimental product to a new standard in Poa control. In fact we have based a lot of our understanding for Australia on Dr Baird’s work on PoaCure.
Check out UC Riverside Turfgrass Science - https://turfgrass.ucr.edu
Check out our updated website
Our Broadleaf herbicides Methar Tri Kombi and Sportsground are back available gain
To apply for the ASTMA CPD points:
• Log into the ASTMA website members section
• Choose ‘manage your CPD’ under the membership tab
• Go to submit activity
• Choose POD as activity code
• Under activity name enter the unique code for this podcast as heard at the end of the episode
Next Episode
Ep 49 Delphene Tseng Landseer Communications & Consulting
This episode begins with a brief talk about my upcoming US trip before the main part of the podcast where I interview Delphene Tseng who is founder of a company called Landseer communications. I first met Delphene through a Superintendent in Victoria, Andrew Anderson, before I did this interview. I was really interested in hearing what she's doing to help golf courses talk about themselves, promote themselves from an environmental and sustainability POV, and work with the first green programme that we have adopted here in Australia as well as Audubon international.
As Delphene puts on her website
“Every course has its own signature hole; every course has its own story.
Tell your neighbours about the salamanders that live by the healthy water on your course.
Show the world the native flowers you planted to create a pollinator habitat.
Let everyone hear the birdsong that floats between the morning fog.
Big or small, we can help you tell the story that touches the heart of your community.”
You Tube channel where our VLOG will be for the US turf conference
To apply for the ASTMA CPD points:
• Log into the ASTMA website members section
• Choose ‘manage your CPD’ under the membership tab
• Go to submit activity
• Choose POD as activity code
• Under activity name enter the unique code for this podcast as heard at the end of the episode
This episode is produced by The Social Media Birdie in conjunction with The Golfing Greenkeeper podcast.
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