ASSOCIATION UPDATES
5th ETS FIELD DAYS TO BE HELD IN BRNO, CZECH REPUBLIC, 12-13th SEPTEMBER 2017
Scientific Program
As usual, the first day will be devoted to lectures by invited speakers from diverse European countries and from the USA. Te venue of the lecture day will be Mendel University in Brno.
Te seminar day on 12 September 2017 will feature multiple topics by presenters from across the world, focusing on the main topic: “Turfgrasses in accordance with changing nature.”
This aerial view reveals the beauty of Brno, the second largest city in the Czech Republic.
Te European Turfgrass Society (ETS) and the Scientific Society of Mendel University in Brno invite ETS members and other turfgrass enthusiasts to the 5th Field Days. It will be held 12-13th September 2017 at Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic.
Te ETS Field Days event of two days is organized every two years. It is intended to promote the exchange of information among turfgrass specialists from universities, official bodies and private companies and also among practical greenkeepers and groundsmen.
As the turfgrass industry in the Czech Republic is facing two weather extremes (e.g. pronounced drought and hot waves), legislative restrictions and various environmental challenges (e.g. GC construction on fly ash deposition or on reclamation areas), the main topic of this event is “Turfgrasses in accordance with changing nature.”
The City of Brno
Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic by population and area; the largest Moravian city; and the historical capital city of the Margraviate of Moravia. Brno also is the administrative center of the South Moravian Region in which it forms a separate district (Brno-City District). Te city lies at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers and has about 400,000 inhabitants. Its greater metropolitan area is home to more than 800,000 people, while its larger urban zone had a population of about 730,000 in 2004.
TPI Turf News May/June 2017
Presentations during the morning of the seminar include: Te Welcome Speech, “Introduction of Mendel University and Department of Animal Nutrition and Grassland Science,” by the Dean of Faculty of Agronomy Pavel Ryant, Head of the Department, Jiří Skládanka; “Turfgrass Water Conservation,” by Bernd Leinauer, New Mexico State University, USA; “Building the foundations for low input turf management,” by Christian Spring, STRI Bingley, UK; “Compost extracts/teas and management of sport turfs,” by Gerhard Lung, Green Planet, Germany; “Comparative investigations on different Hybrid turf systems in a field trial in Basel—results from three experimental years,” by Paul Baader, Baader Konzept, GmbH, Germany; “Experiences with low input management of GC in central European conditions,” by Kamil Pečenka and Jiří Kapeš, greenkeepers, Board members of CGA, CZ; and “GC build on fly ash,” by Michal Voigts, greenkeeper, president of CGA, CZ.
Te Sponsors presentation will be followed by lunch.
Presentations during the afternoon of the seminar include: “Turfgrass education in the Czech Republic,” by Stanislav Hejduk, Mendel University Brno, CZ; “Hemiparazites for enhancing of plant diversity in extensive turfgrass,” by Jan Mládek, University Palacky, Olomouc, CZ; A Sponsors presentation will visit the demonstration plots at the Botanical Garden of Mendel University. Te General assembly of ETS will close the seminar.
Te evening ends with a networking reception and a social dinner at Mendel University.
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