TPI Helps You Grow Bobby notes they were just members of ASPA at first, as their children were growing up and they were focused on growing the business. Tey’d attend Conferences and Conventions when they could work it in but missed a few years. Around 2000, they started coming regularly again and he began serving on committees. Bobby was elected to the Board of Trustees for a three-year term, 2003 to 2006, but asked not to go forward at that point with both Robert and Shelby in high school.
Robert Winstead, store manager of S.Y. Wilson & Company, surveys the store from the upper level.
is the office manager. Tat team has allowed me to go out and build our brand and do so many other things. If you’re working in the business, it’s hard to work on the business.”
Evolving Turfgrass Production Winstead Turf Farms now has about 1,000 acres in turfgrass. Over the past five or six years they’ve been responding to the need for proprietary grasses and shifting heavily to them. Bobby says, “What I like best in the turfgrass industry is being able to find the grasses to best serve the needs of the different segments of our customer base.” Tey are now concentrating on the bermudagrasses: Latitude 36, Northbridge, and Tahoma 31; on HGT Bluegrass; and on Geo zoysiagrass and Palisades and Royal zoysia out of Texas A & M. Tey do make deliveries, but don’t do any installation.
Bobby says, “We’ve really pushed the golf business the last two years and it’s now about 12 percent of our sod business. Homeowners make up about 50 percent, but that is getting smaller because we’re not chasing the commodity grasses. Nursery and landscape contractors account for about 15 percent. Because we’re located near Memphis and easy to get to, about 15 percent of our sod sales are picked up at the farm. We’ll often do 200 pickup pallets a day. Te remaining 8 percent comes from the smaller market segments: sports complexes, cemeteries, and highway work, though we’re scaling back on the highway projects. We only did two last year, but one of those took over 200 truckloads of sod. We’re also participants in the Aqua-Yield program started by Warren and Clark Bell.”
TPI Turf News November/December 2018
However, he and the entire Winstead family and Winstead Turf Farms staff stepped up to host the Field Day for TPI’s 2006 Convention, headquartered in Memphis. Te Field Day drew over one thousand visitors from around the world to the Memphis area.
Bobby was elected to the TPI Board of Trustees as secretary/treasurer for 2010-2011, served as vice president in 2011-2012 and then as president and past president. Te opportunity to travel outside the U.S. for TPI Conferences took the Winsteads to Australia, Mexico and to Canada three times.
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