Leading seed breeder DLF will be returning to Saltex 2017, showcasing two of the company’s latest breeding innovations, 4Turf Tetraploid Ryegrass and the new Turf Type Annual Ryegrass Quickston. DLF’s technical team will also be on hand on stand J100
Price Turfcare, the newly established business founded by Ransomes Jacobsen’s former sales director, Rupert Price, will be exhibiting at SALTEX for the first time on stand B124. Following the launch of the business with the Ventrac franchise back in January,
Charterhouse Turf Machinery will be highlighting the Graden GBS1200 at SALTEX this year. As always, it will also be showcasing a vast array of equipment for the care of both natural and artificial sports surfaces as well as landscaping products
Your course is a living organism that requires both air and sunlight to create food and grow.
The BIGGA Turf Management Exhibition (BTME) in January 2018 has completely sold out, its organiser has revealed. This has been achieved with still 100 days to go to Europe’s largest turf management exhibition. Within two months of BTME 2017 in
Established under the new MTD ownership as the CubCadet INFINICUT® and the ATT TMSystem™, visitors to stand F041 will be able to see some new features on this unique mower range as well as a new face in northern territory
The West Sussex-based, luxury country house hotel and spa, Park House, has appointed Jonathan Day as its new head greenkeeper. With over 23 years greenkeeping experience, Jonathan was most recently the course manager at Woking Golf Club in Surrey, a
Grass seed and turf care specialist, Germinal, will be showcasing Cabrio, its latest ultra-fine perennial ryegrass cultivar for cricket pitches and tennis lawns, at this year’s SALTEX show. Cabrio Ultra Fine Ryegrass is the most recent addition to Germinal’s portfolio
SALTEX 2017 has attracted some of the sector’s biggest names, ensuring that visitors can expect to see an impressive line-up of world-class innovation for use by greenkeepers when the event opens its doors at the NEC, Birmingham on 1 and
With 20 years’ greenkeeping experience at major Scottish golf courses, Dean Muir was “looking for something a little bit different” three years ago when he upped sticks for The Machrie Links. And he’s certainly succeeded in his ambition. As one
MTD Specialty Turf Products, manufacturer of the ATT TMSystem™ and the Cub Cadet Infinicut™, have announced the appointment of Dougie Archibald as territory sales manager. Dougie is an established name within the industry, gaining a wealth of experience having worked
Bayer Environmental Science has appointed a new national account manager for its turf and amenity products. Lewis Blois brings over 10 years of experience in the amenity sector to the Bayer Turf Solutions Team. He started his career with Bayer
A councillor in Yorkshire has written to his local golf clubs asking them to plant more trees in a bid to boost woodland. Matthew Robinson, from Harewood Parish Council in Leeds, wrote to every golf club across his ward, along
BIGGA (the British & International Golf Greenkeepers Association) and ICL have disclosed the five successful recipients of the second ICL Continue to Learn scholarship. The ICL Continue to Learn scholarship offers five BIGGA members the opportunity to attend the Continue
Drill n Fill is a smart choice for slow-draining golf greens this autumn, as clubs look to minimise closures during the winter. The legendary aerator is perfect for greens which suffer with puddling, compaction, thatch, black layer and poor grass
With flexibility at the core of them all, Toro Triple Finance and the Buy Now Pay Later scheme offer customers four ways to finance their Toro machinery. Toro Triple Finance is a firm favourite for Reesink Turfcare customers, offering three
Downside School, attached to Downside Abbey in Somerset, has had particular problems with the banks on the site causing issues with drainage on some of the site’s key sports areas. Headland Amenity’s Xpedite has helped Steve Eade, head of grounds
Opened for play in 1992, The Manor House is a golf course like no other. The mature oak and beech trees that line the magnificent fairways together with the immaculate greens and the River Bybrook meandering through the middle bring
Head greenkeeper, John Neilly, and his team at Letterkenny GC, are the first recipients of a Wiedenmann Super 500 in Donegal. The hugely versatile 3-1 collector, scarifier and verticutter was an easy choice for those who maintain the testing parkland
What do slip accidents on your course actually cost? Cost to a golfer or staff member: Loss of income Pain from injury Reduced quality of life Worry and stress Cost to your club: Insured costs (injury, ill health, damage) Loss
Two teenage employees at Castle Stuart Golf Links in Scotland are not letting the grass grow under their feet after completing the first part of a greenkeeping qualification. Reece Haspell and Kerr Edgar, both 17 and apprentice greenkeepers at the
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