Billy Turf: Welcome To Valentine East!

This past week our company hosted a field day for Turf professionals at Penn State-Berks Campus , on the turf plots, known as Valentine East. Dr. Mike Fidanza was our host. As with everything, it all started with a couple of conversations between myself & Dr. Mike and then a few months of serious planning. Put that all together and you have yourself a field day! The behind the scenes work of organizing was definitely a big part of the challenge. From just organizing with your Service Department for the equipment needed, to who is hauling what, to having your paperwork in order to bringing in an outside food vendor on to a state run facility , we got it all done. What is great is everyone in our company had the same answer, "Whatever you need me to do!" We also had 7 of our factory representatives, who came into town to man their equipment. From Truck Drivers, Factory Reps, Salesmen, Service Department and the inside support people and Ownership, it took a team effort!
Now we did get a curve ball in the last 48 hours, with some thunderstorms with high winds, to make it tough for guys to leave work just for good measure. In the end , we still had almost 70 customers in attendance with a mix of golf & professional turf managers. Bill Brown, from Turf Republic, was also there to see the event and even helped me out with my first Periscope transmission for the introduction. He also did an interview with me for Turf Republic about the event.
The location could not have been better and the feedback from customers and vendors was all very similar with the concensus opinion being a very good day.
Now maybe that was the Jim's Steaks and cheese fries talking, but I will never admit that.