Golfdom, April 2015
SupEr SharES SprEaDShEEt With CivitaS More superintendents looking to assist their fellow superintendents OnGolf comes with some influential people behind it namely cofounder Matt Shaffer director of grounds at Merion GC and Shawn Emerson director of grounds at Desert Mountain and chairman of OnGolfs advisory board Walt Norley the former CEO of UgMo technologies s com is the CEO istock OnGolf is a cloud based data collection system that is meant to help superintendents store all their information in one place for easy whitford access and easier decision making The platform originated in the agriculture industry in the form of OnFarm Norley was introduced to marty OnFarm and shared the system with his old friends Shaffer and Emerson to get their take by When Walt brought this software to Shawn and me we said Hey photos this was made for us Shaffer says Golfdom com April 2015 Golfdom 27 Continued on page 28 Quali Pro showcases latest turf care solutions Quali Pro a division of Pasadena Texas based Control Solutions Inc CSI held its 3rd Annual Distributor Breakfast Breakdown at the GIS Rick Grant CSI business director T O and Jerry Corbett Quali Pro technical services manager covered in rapid fire fashion the companys latest turf care solutions Enclave Featuring Quad Control Technology a combination of four active ingredients chlorothalonil iprodione thiophanate methyl and tebuconazole this patent pending fungicide is showing better efficacy than tank mixing in university studies Enclave treats dollar spot brown patch anthracnose snow mold pink and gray and ornamental diseases Strobe 50WG and Strobe 2L These two new azoxystrobin based fungicides prevent and cure more than 27 turf and 30 ornamental diseases Strobe 2L is approved by the U S EPA and is currently undergoing state registrations 2DQ This new herbicide combines three AIs 24 D dicamba and quinclorac to provide control of annual and perennial broadleaf weeds in warm and coolseason turfgrasses MSM 25OD This new metsulfuron methyl based low odor liquid post emergent herbicide offers control of bahiagrass and broadleaf weeds such as clovers dandelion henbit dollarweed and plantains in warm season turfgrass Negate 37WG This dual powered low odor postemergent herbicide combines rimsulfuron and metsulfuronmethyl and controls Poa perennial ryegrass and broadleaf weeds in established warmseason turfgrass Later this year Quali Pro expects to launch Strobe T a fungicide that will combine azoxystrobin and tebuconazole In 2016 Quali Pro plans to launch a turf nematicide Corbett said the product will provide nematode control as well as enhanced root development and overall plant health Marty Whitford Editorial Director Rick Grant CSI business director T O top and Jerry Corbett Quali Pro technical services manager above know how to keep a breakfast lively at the GIS talk about upcoming technologies The ability to save superintendents time money and resources is the silver bullet and Civitas believes they have found the solution with its IPM costing model Civitas a subsidiary of Suncor launched six years ago and is in beta testing of the IPM costing model a costing tool that allows superintendents to forecast and compare resources their courses consume What started as a concept from the mind of Erik Spong a former superintendent and now representative of Civitas turned into an Excel spreadsheet that allowed him to see what his course spent on various resources The only problem Spong was the only one who could read and understand the Excel spreadsheets With the help of Civitas the IPM costing model is now on the Web and is mobile responsive Superintendents can customize compare and forecast the amount and the cost of fungicides insecticide herbicides PGRs wetting agents phosphates fertilizers and water Civitas IPM costing tool basically empowers you to do oneday forecasting in what used to take a month says Spong On top of the IPM Costing Model Civitas has a new herbicide WEEDfree It has been approved by the U S Environmental Protection Agency but is currently still going through U S state registration Grant B Gannon Associate Editor OnGOlf crunches data saves time
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