Disease pressure

The recent beautiful golfing weather has created ideal conditions for turfgrass diseases.  The New Year's Eve forecast is 83 degrees and 90% humidity!  The foggy mornings and short days act as an incubator for diseases such as pythium and bipolaris leaf spot. 

 

 

Below is a photograph of the early stages of a bipolaris leaf spot outbreak on our putting green.  Practices such as reducing watering and treatment with fungicide will keep the disease from spreading during these conditions.

 

 

Below is a close up of the damage to leaf tissue caused by the leaf spot.  Typically the disease will first show up around the edges of the greens.



Parts Inventory room udate

Part of our "Working Lean" manager training program included the recent 5S training exercise.  The 5S's are Sort, Shine, Set in Order, Standardize, and Sustain.  The perfect application for this exercise was our parts inventory room at our Golf Maintenance facility.  As you can see in the photos below, the newly organized room has eliminated clutter and will reduce the down-time on our equipment as our technicians will spend less time looking and more time fixing.  Our inventory management program will help insure that we have spare parts on the shelf instead of ordering and waiting (proactive vs. reactive).

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