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In this episode of Living Legends sponsored by Nufarm and Wiedenman, Jim Husting, recently retired from Woodbridge Golf and Country Club in California, talks about how the job of the golf course superintendent has changed since the 1980s, the challenges associated with finding and retaining labor in today's golf market, his role in government relations and how it helped the golf industry on the local level in California, why he enjoys teaching turf and horticulture at San Joaquin Delta Community College after retirement.

In this episode of Rockbottum Radio, broadcasting from deep in the TurfNet Zone, Momma cooks up Himalayan Possum Stew and has to call in an expert pathologist... Aint Feemy picks the range and doesn't feel a thing... and an important golf corporation exec gets trapped by the Robot Commode in Rockbottum's new high-tech restroom.

Baffled with BS: During Willy's intellectual segment, Buddy rounds up a road trip posse to hunt down the TurfTruthers, a gang of dry-gulchin', bulltwit slingin' yayhoos just trying to fit in with the cool kids and avenge years of wedgies and toilet swirlies. Momma says it best: Never trust a twitter who won't give you his real name.

In this episode of The Ladder, Ryan Kaczor, assistant superintendent at the Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio, discusses working for superintendents like John Zimmers, both at Inverness and Oakmont, and Steve Cook at Oakland Hills, and how those experiences are helping him prepare for his first crack at being a head superintendent. A graduate of Michigan State, Ryan also talks about the recent restoration at Inverness, one of Donald Ross’s favorite designs, and how contemporary architect Andrew Green brought the 1918 classic back to its roots. Ryan also talks about how the challenges involved with completing the restoration just ahead of this year’s U.S. Junior Amateur, and efforts under way to bring the 2021 Solheim Cup to northwestern Ohio.

In this episode of the TurfNet Renovation Report, host Anthony Pioppi chats with Jeff Johnson, golf course superintendent at The Minikahda Club in Minneapolis, about their 2018 strip-and-seed regrassing project that opened earlier this year.

Presented by Golf Preservations and The Andersons.

In this episode of Frankly Speaking, Frank Rossi chats with Dr John Sorochan of the University of Tennessee about the latest research in measurement and testing technology for management of sports turf surface performance and safety.

In this episode of Frankly Speaking, Frank Rossi chats with Dr. Jim Brosnan of the University of Tennessee about

the effect of weather trends in application decision making and weed species shiftefficacy (and herbicide resistance) of Poa annua control programsthe ongoing four-year, $5.7 million project among 15 universities to assess the national-scale herbicide-resistance epidemic in annual bluegrass in managed turfgrass systems the involvement and position of universities and extension on the recent glyphosate debacle.

Presented by DryJect and Civitas Turf Defense.

In this episode of Rockbottum Radio, RW seeks to avoid offensive discourse by installing a special Podcast Offensive Warning Device (POWD), which emits a BS alert when anything potentially offensive is emitted.

The screen-free gang at Rockbottum CC receives the worst-ever Social Credit Score, forcing Momma to retain a Social Engineering Expert -- Horton Pantslow -- to bring Rockbottum CC into the modern era. A mandatory staff meeting after lunch ensues.

The first lesson of Horton's seminar focused on working smarter not harder, raising the bar and seeing the course with new eyes while taking the course to the next level and doing more with less. The Rockbottum SCS is pushed into negative territory as a result.

The meeting winds up with a serious discussion about Growing the Game and Global Worming...

In this episode of Frankly Speaking, Frank Rossi chats with Dr. Karl Guillard of UConn about nitrogen behavior in the soil and current thinking on late season nitrogen application and water protection, mineralization rates, organic matter accumulation... and more.

Presented by DryJect and Civitas Turf Defense.

Dick Gray of PGA Golf Club in Port St. Lucie, Florida, talks about the art of greenkeeping and career longevity in this episode of Living Legends. The 2016 TurfNet Superintendent of the Year, Gray also discusses the importance of coaching and training his staff and how a superintendent only can be as successful as the rest of his team. Other topics include how people like Pete Dye and activities including snook fishing and "wrasslin" in high school and college have shaped his career as a greenkeeper.

In this episode of the Turfgrass Hotline, Frank Rossi chats with Clint Mattox of Oregon State about turf conditions and management strategies as summer winds down in the Pacific Northwest.

Recorded September 5, 2019.

Presented by DryJect and Intelligro | Civitas Turf Defense.