GOLF ARTICLES

This section of the Vermigro web site contains the golf related files we have collected for you. Just click on any of the links to go to the actual document.
Please contact us if you have any further questions regarding this subject:

• Compost tea shows promise, from Golf Course News,  Dec 2002  by Overbeck, Andrew. WOODBURY, NJ. - As more superintendents study organic golf course maintenance practices, compost tea has emerged as viable alternative to a chemical-only approach.
   
• Golf, compost, and family By Richard Luff, The Argresource Dispatch
  Spring 2003. Does any superintendent's New Year's resolutions include any of the following: irrigate less, use fewer fertilizers, use fewer chemicals, stay under budget, or spend more time with the family? Including high quality compost into your maintenance program may help you achieve one or even all of these goals.
   
• Turfgrass Management: Compost Tea With mounting environmental pressures and increasing chemical costs, some superintendents are turning toward sustainable agricultural techniques.
   
• The time for organic golf has arrived By Neal Lewis. Golf Course News, May 2002. The public is becoming increasingly unwilling to accept the use of substances that are possible carcinogens over drinking water supplies, alongside streams and wildlife habitats, or near homes.
   
• Report on the Presidio Golf Course.
  This is an excellent 10 page report, viewable as a pdf file.
   
• San Francisco - our parks are green. - The Park and Rec Department's IPM Program. San Francisco has some of the greenest parks in the nation. And in our fair city, "green" means organic. Back in 1996, the Board of Supervisors passed a demanding ordinance requiring all of our municipal properties, from S.F. GeneralHospital to the Lincoln Park Golf Course, to implement an aggressive integrated pest-management (IPM) program.
   
• More superintendents taking organic approach By Doug Saunders, Golf Course News, December 2002 - TRUCKEE, Calif. - The Food and Drug Administration recently announced new guidelines for the labeling of organic products for the marketplace after years of discussion.
  
  Golf courses implement compost tea program. "From The Ground Up", Newsletter/City of San Jose, California. Summer 2003. Compost tea is emerging as an effective tool for suppression of turf diseases and reduction of synthetic fertilizers.
   
• Compost tea slowly gaining golf converts, By Andrew Overbeck, Golf Course News, February 2002. - With mounting environmental pressures and increasing chemical costs, some superintendents are turning toward sustainable agricultural techniques.