This past week was a busy one with visitors from Toro and multiple educational events. In the past, I have spoken about Jim Nedin. Jim is a consultant, who works with our company and has over 40 years in the turf business. I say it all the time, I think he is the smartest person in our industry! This past week he gave a sprayer calibration at the local STMA meeting (KAFMO). Then on Wednesday, he gave a class for the local professional teams (Eagles/Union/Phillies) interns and some staff members. That was a full day of reels, rotaries, aeration and sprayer/spreader calibration.
It was only 246 slides for the inside part of the class.....!
Every opportunity that I have to work with Jim, I always think how some turf managers roll the dice and hope for the best on their sprayer applications. His great comment is " You check your reel mowers to make sure they are cutting right before they go out every time, why not your sprayers?" Jim further went on to say " a bad cut will grow out after a few days BUT a bad chemical application can be there for 12 weeks or more." This is not even taking in to account the financial aspect of using more chemical then you need to or the other repercussions of turf damage.
This is normally the time you see self inflicted wounds, the mid point of a hot & dry year. Take a step back and think about some of the things you are assuming and you know what happens when you assume.....
WJC
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