GREENKEEPER BLOG
Your Spray Program Shouldn’t Keep You Up at Night
Building a spray program can be stressful. You're thinking about pest control, fertility, PGRs, wetting agents, and plant health products. Are products from the last application still doing the job? Then comes the mixing math. A misplaced decimal or a wrong unit can...
Moving Beyond Pretty Maps
Today's weather forecast shows a 10% chance of rain in the late morning. Do you throw your rain gear in the cart? What if the forecast shows a 30% chance at 7:00 a.m.? Even without formal training in statistics, we use probabilities like these to make practical...
GreenKeeper Models Provide More Insight Than Simple GDD Calculators
I first learned about growing degree days (GDDs) in my introductory agronomy course at UW–Madison. These models used daily average temperature to predict biological processes such as corn development. I later learned that GDDs could also be used to schedule seedhead...
Upgraded GreenKeeper CIS Includes POGO Integration
Many turf management decisions are inherently spatial—where water is needed, where pests typically occur, and where additional management is required to achieve specific performance goals. Historically, these patterns have been managed through careful observation,...
Learning the Microclimate: GreenKeeper Insight Improves Forecast Accuracy
Accurate weather forecasts are central to irrigation scheduling, spray timing, and stress management, yet most forecasts are built for regions—not individual golf courses or athletic complexes. Terrain, tree cover, elevation, and nearby bodies of water create...
Move Past Yesterday’s ET: The Predictive Advantage of GreenKeeper wX
Agronomic models are only as good as the data they receive. GreenKeeper’s models rely on high-quality, site-specific weather inputs to perform at their best. Adding a wX station dramatically improves the accuracy and resolution of those data. While weather stations...