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Bic
Very well said
The fact of the matter is that turf, except in sports and golf scenarios, is very easy to keep in fairly good shape with little to no effort
Golf and sports has a LOT of foot traffic, often you have to grow a new crop of turf every year.......and it has to be close to perfect
The cultural practices that you talk about are the key to great management of any site
My personal thought is
the money has to be spent to have personnel on the site..... Okay given
The money has to spent to have the irrigation, park bench painted, balls picked up on the driving range, etc
INPUTS is the exception
IF, you can figure out how to do the inputs differently and sustainable that is a large impact
Less water, less seed (not at first), less fertilizer, less cides
Fertile soil can grow anything
In sand based "sports" and "golf" organic matter is a bad word
If the fertile soil has aggrigation and soil porosity, it is basically sand based but fertile
HHHMMMMMM, I need to think about that
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The next frontier......is under your feet
You can never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
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