Iowa Turf Conference

Harv, Charles (Rognes) and I were representing HCC at the Iowa Turf Conference in Des Moines, Iowa on January 19-21st. While we were there we attended several education seminars that were related to our field of study, turfgrass.
There were some very helpful sessions about turf and other helpful tools to making education better.
One that intrigued me the most was a session by Marcus Jones, a grad assistant at Iowa State University. His session was about the benefits of having a blog.
Blogs are great for keeping people informed about whats going on, whether it be a golf course superintendent filling in members and employees about what is happening on the golf course maintenence side of things or in our case, giving students a tool to keep students up to date on whats going on in the HCC Horticulture Dept.

Sessions we attended at the Ia Turf Conference included: golf course renovations, herbicide use, gap maintenence scheduling, and a bentgrass conversion that took place at Veenkner Golf Course in Ames, Iowa.
I feel we all were able to walk away with some ideas on how to apply different techniques used by superintendents that went through different grow ins and renovations.

Besides the education sessions, we were able to network with people on the IAGCSA board and people that had exhibit tables set up at the trade show.

I encourage all of you to attend events like these. You will learn alot and develop important connections when entering the work field.

Corbin