Golfdom, February 2019

24 Golfdom February 2019 Golfdom com PHOTO BY KELLY LIMPERT Its changed the game for FMC Laycock said Thisll give us a library of more than 18 billion molecules that will potentially be new products to the market and new modes of action FMC soon will introduce three new fungicides to the market a stand alone fungicide and two combination fungicides In the meantime Laycock urged attendees to focus on FMCs foundational fungicide its Fame portfolio The Fame SC fungicide includes the active ingredient of fluoxastrobin which helps provide increased leaf systemicity and uniform leaf distribution Sipcam Agro Weve been your source of chlorothalonil and you just dont know it said Sam Wineinger Sipcam Agros Turf Ornamental marketing and formulator business manager With brands like Echo 720 Echo Ultimate Manicure 6FL Manicure Ultra and Armor Tech many attendees in the room had used a Sipcam product at some point during their careers Enhanced Turf Quality ETQ one of the products Sipcam spoke with supers about during the Summit is the companys branded version of a value added fungicide Downforce ETQ a new addition to the ETQ family in 2018 19 is fluazinam plus ETQ The new product is a multisite contact fungicide that can control multiple turf diseases including dollar spot Another new product Coastal Herbicide is a preand post emergent southern herbicide It is a three way combination herbicide that uses sizamine prodiamine and imazaquin And the new products just kept coming Two other herbicide concepts from Sipcam currently are in the works We are continuing to find new things and bring up new solutions Wineinger said We value your opinions and thoughts on where your struggles are what you need to do to tackle the next hurdle If we can come up with a product that fits that niche thats what were looking to do Smithco Smithco President Don Smith told the group that his company was one of the first to sign on to be a partner for the inaugural Golfdom Summit eight years ago and he is proud to have participated in every Summit since We really like this event and the format We get to spend a lot of time one on one with superintendents in a relaxed atmosphere Marketing Manager Emil Miller said He adds One of the things we think we do best is interact with superintendents and end users of our products Since its inception in 1967 as a one man one product company Smithco has diversified its portfolio to include bunker rakes greens and fairway rollers and spikers sweepers and dedicated sprayers Of that array of products it showcased five during the Summits boardroom presentation the XXL 70 Greens Roller the 15 foot fairway roller the 10 foot fairway spiker the 5200 Spray Star and the Star Command 20 Smith was especially excited about the Star Command 20 a GPS sprayer created through a partnership with TeeJet The sprayer can control the droplet size on the fly for greater efficacy independent of rate or speed Smith added that on a 50000 budget the machine offers a return on investment of about 16250 Not only does the system pay for the technology but it starts to pay for the sprayer Smith said Textron Many of the Textron products attendees saw at the Golfdom Summit were recently redesigned to remove redundancies Superintendents took a look at the new product initiatives for Jacobsen which included the updated TR and AR series Continued from page 22 Continued on page 26 GOLFDOM SUMMIT RECAP PART 1 Smithco has been a Golfdom Summit partner since the first event Here the team takes the time to show off whats under the hood or seat of its greens rollers