ASSOCIATION UPDATES TPI TO BE REPRESENTED
AT THE 2018 STMA CONFERENCE AND GIS TPI staff members will be representing TPI at both the 2018 Sports Turf Managers Association (STMA) Conference and Exhibition in Fort Worth, TX, January 16-19, and the 2018 Golf Industry Show (GIS) in San Antonio, February 5-8.
Continued representation at national and international turfgrass conferences and events was one of the many initiatives discussed and adopted as important to advance TPI’s goals during the TPI Fall Board Meeting held October 16-18, in Chicago, IL.
TPI Executive Director Casey Reynolds, PhD; Associate Executive Director Karen Cooper; and Director of Operations/Director of Meetings Sandy Reynolds worked with the TPI Board of Trustees to develop these initiatives.
TPI members are an essential part of both the sports turf and golf course segments of the Green Industry, not only supplying turfgrass sod to these facilities, but often serving as a resource—or even a trusted partner—in preparing the turfgrasses to meet the challenging demands of those who use these facilities and working with the sports turf managers and golf course superintendents in solving turfgrass management issues. Staff representation at these major events for STMA and the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA) provides a forum to tell your story and promote natural turfgrass.
If you are at either of these events, please stop by the TPI booth and say hi. Turf News co-editors Steve & Suz Trusty also plan to attend these two shows. If you have stories to share, or want to get acquainted, look for them there. If your company also is exhibiting, be sure to share your booth number, too.
As part of the TPI representation, Cooper traveled to Paris, Tennessee, on September 12 to attend the Mid- South Turfgrass Council's Sod Demo Day, hosted by TPI members Jason and Tina Pooler of Tri-Turf Sod Farms, Inc. Cooper and Reynolds also attended turfgrass events in College Station, Texas, at the 2017 Texas A&M Turfgrass Field Day and in Perry, GA, for the 2017 Georgia Urban Ag Council Sod & Turf Producers Field Day.
All this ties into the TPI and TLI board’s agreement to dedicate a minimum of $100,000 toward a marketing campaign to change the perception of turfgrass for consumers and to increase awareness of TPI and TLI and our role as advocates for natural turfgrass with affiliated associations and industry partners to gain their support in these efforts.
If you are aware of future events that TPI staff should participate in, please reach out to Casey Reynolds (
creynolds@TurfGrassSod.org) or Karen Cooper (
kcooper@TurfGrassSod.org) and TPI’s staff will make every attempt to attend!
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRY AWARDS PRESENTED
Awards recognizing achievement were presented during the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Agronomy, the Crop Science Society of America and the Soil Science Society of America, held in October in Tampa, Florida.
2017 American Society
of Agronomy Fellows Te American Society of Agronomy (ASA) was formed on December 31, 1907, to “increase the dissemination of knowledge concerning soils and crops and the conditions affecting them.”
Te Fellow award is the highest recognition bestowed by ASA. Up to 0.3 percent of the Society’s active and emeritus members may be elected Fellow.
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Congratulations to the following 2017 ASA Fellows: • Mike Fidanza, PhD, Pennsylvania State University • Bernd Leinauer, PhD, New Mexico State University • Grady Miller, PhD, North Carolina State University • John Stier, PhD, Te University of Tennessee
Crop Science Society of America Te Crop Science Society of America (CSSA) is an international scientific society composed of more than 6,000 members. Founded in 1955, CSSA advances the disciplines of crop science, including: crop breeding, physiology, and ecology; seed production and technology, turfgrass science; forage and grazing lands; genomics, molecular genetics, and biotechnology; and biomedical uses of plants.
TPI Turf News January/February 2018
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