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Supplier news

Advanced Aeration Systems, a company that provides subsurface aeration systems to golf courses throughout the country, established distribution agreements with Rain Bird and Toro golf course irrigation system distributors in: Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Texas, Oklahoma and Nevada. Additionally, the company completed installations at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio; Tucson (Ariz.) Country Club; Desert Mountain and Terravita Golf Club in Scottsdale, Ariz.; Preston Trail Golf Club in Dallas; The Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, Calif.; The Traditions Club in Bryant, Texas; and Wade Hampton Golf Club in Cashiers, N.C.

Bayer Environmental Science received supplemental registration from the Environmental Protection Agency for the addition of Curvularia to the 26GT fungicide label. The label states the product may be applied as a preventive treatment every 14 days at rates of 4 fluid ounces per 1,000 square feet. Curvularia is a leaf-spot fungus that causes spotting on grasses. 26GT fungicide is a broad-spectrum product registered for control of brown patch, dollar spot and a variety of other destructive turfgrass diseases.

Bayer Environmental Science sales representatives participated in Take Your Daughter to the Course Week in July. Sponsored partially by the National Golf Course Owners Association, the program is geared toward introducing golf to girls. Participating golf courses offered reduced green fees to junior golfers from select USGA Foundation-supported junior golf programs.

New Berlin (Wis.) Hills Golf Course hired Bonestroo, Rosene, Anderlik & Associates, an engineering consulting firm, to prevent erosion by stabilizing 3,300 feet of the Root River, which flows through the course. The $225,000 project consisted of a geomorphic assessment of each reach and usage of native growing plants on regraded slopes with permanent turf reinforcement matting and in-stream treatment structures. Other project elements included a topographic survey, wetland delineation, hydraulic analysis and the submittal for and acquisition of grant funds for construction.

Nitamin fertilizers from Georgia-Pacific Resins are demonstrating improved turf performance in studies conducted by the company and its distributors in North Carolina, Georgia and Ohio. Also, turf studies using Nitamin fertilizer are under way at several universities with nationally recognized turfgrass science departments.

GPS Industries, a provider of global positioning and Wi-Fi wireless to golf courses, acquired international GPS patents in 13 countries: Great Britain, Ireland, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Japan and Australia.

Jacobsen is offering a promotion – No Pay ‘til May – to its customers. It features zero down and zero payments for qualified customers until May 2005 for all golf and turf care equipment. The program started Aug. 2 and runs through Dec. 31.

Koch Cellulose now manufactures and markets BlueYellow, the turf establishment system that combines seed and fertilizer in a lightweight, biodegradable roll. Koch Cellulose acquired BlueYellow as part of a purchase deal struck with Georgia-Pacific.

LESCO released second quarter results for the period ending June 30, 2004.
Net sales during the quarter increased 6 percent to $182.2 million from $172.6 million last year. Golf gross sales grew almost 1 percent to $42.0 million from $41.7 million last year. Service center sales increased 7 percent to $126.7 million from $118.0 million for the same period a year ago. Same-store service center sales increased 1 percent. The company also donated $30,000 to Project EverGreen.

Little Beaver, a manufacturer of earth drills and augers, launched its new Web site, www.littlebeaver.com. The improved Web site features user-friendly navigation tools in a newly designed page format. Seven product videos are available.

PBI/Gordon Corp. added a Spanish version of the SpeedZone Southern label and material safety data sheets to the corporate Web site, www.pbigordon.com.

Players Turf International installed a synthetic turf project in the Fossum Practice Facility at the Rearick Golf Complex at Michigan State University. The project included the installation of a 1,100-square-foot practice putting green and 442 square feet of PerfectTee tee line at the indoor facility. The company also installed 2,760 square feet of synthetic tee line turf at Covered Bridge Golf Club in Sellersburg, Ind.

Redexim Charterhouse welcomed Autrusa and Lewis Equipment Co. to its Antonio Carraro dealer network. Autrusa is in Perkiomenville, Penn., and Lewis Equipment is in Winter Haven, Fla.

SePro Corp., an agrichemical company, negotiated to purchase the former Zeneca research facility in Whitakers, N.C. It has been renamed the SePro Research and Technology Campus and includes a six-building aquatic research and technology complex with laboratories and 11 acres of specialized aquatic research ponds and mesocosms.

Vermeer launched an interactive Web site, www.vermeer.com, which is the first phase of a multifaceted campaign to open communication channels with its customers.

West Coast Turf adopted the United States Standard Bushel of 1.244 cubic feet as its unit of measure for selling turfgrass sprigs. Sod companies historically have used a factored or turf bushel based on the amount of sprigs harvested from one square yard of sod.