Global Soil Survey 2015 Report

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The Global Soil Survey was launched in August, 2013 to enlist turf managers from around the globe to collaborate in the development of new, more sustainable turf nutrient guidelines. After two years, there are several key results to report:

• The Second Annual Report on the Global Soil Survey was issued November, 2015.(The first report was issued September, 2014). The new report has links to all the data, a summary of results, an updated location map and more.
• We have designed a repository of all of the Global Soil Survey data. This will allow anyone who is interested to access the annual report, study or analyze the Survey data, or review our analytical approach.
• Information and results of the Global Soil Survey have been shared with researchers and turf managers in the following presentations and articles:
• A presentation, Only what the turf needs: Updating the Minimum Levels for Sustainable Nutrition Guidelines on the results of the Global Soil Survey.
• Getting there first: Global Soil Survey for Sustainable Turf guides superintendents to reduce nutrient inputs. Golf Course Industry, August 5, 2014.
• Global Soil Survey results challenge conventional guidelines. Golfdom, April 22, 2014.
• Sustainable fertilizer use, by superintendent Jason Haines, Pender Harbor Golf Club, January, 2014.
• Just what the grass requires: using minimum levels for sustainable nutrition. by Micah Woods, Larry Stowell and Wendy Gelernter. January, 2014 Golf Course Management article.
• A Golf Course Industry podcast from Dr. Micah Woods, Share your soil, on the Global Soil Survey.

Sign up for the Global Soil Survey!!. Sign up by mail or sign up online, and become part of history!!

More information on the Global Soil Survey for Sustainable Turf:

• Description of the Global Soil Survey
• Global Soil Survey FACEBOOK page
• Asian Turfgrass Center website

Stowell to speak at GIS

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Planning on being at the Golf Industry Show in San Antonino this year? Then set aside Monday morning, February 23, for an informative, thought provoking (and entertaining) session on turfgrass fertility with experts Drs. Larry Stowell (PACE Turf), Roch Gaussion (University of Nebraska) and Mike Richardson (University of Arkansas). These speakers will be the "guests" at the Turfgrass Talk Show, which will once again be hosted by Dr. Thomas Nikolai of Michigan State University. Speakers will cover foliar vs. granular fertilizers, soil and tissue sampling, the value of historical records and more.

Date: Monday, 2/23/15

Time: 8:30 am - 10:30am

Location: Ballroom C

See you in San Antonio!

Thank you to Global Soil Survey participants

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The turf managers and facilities listed below have participated in the Global Soil Survey for Sustainable Turf, and in doing so, have played an invaluable role in the development of new, more sustainable turf nutrition guidelines — the Minimum Levels for Sustainable Turf (MLSN) Guidelines. We thank them for their vision, their work, and their support of turf research.