GREENKEEPER BLOG
Your Spray Program Shouldn’t Keep You Up at Night
by GreenKeeper | April 20, 2026 | Blog | 0 Comments
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
by Bill Kreuser | March 12, 2026 | Blog | 0 Comments
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
by Bill Kreuser | February 23, 2026 | Blog | 0 Comments
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
by GreenKeeper | February 2, 2026 | Blog | 0 Comments
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
by GreenKeeper | January 28, 2026 | Blog | 0 Comments
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
by GreenKeeper | December 4, 2025 | Blog | 0 Comments
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...
Invest in Yourself and Staff with GreenKeeper University
by GreenKeeper | November 11, 2025 | Blog | 0 Comments
Advance your turf management knowledge at your pace with GreenKeeper University. Our team of renowned turfgrass professors, researchers and practitioners have created 18 different online courses to help advance the knowledge of turfgrass managers. Students can enroll...
Seeing Turf Differently: Exploring the GreenKeeper RECON Turf Vision Sensor
by GreenKeeper | October 22, 2025 | Blog | 0 Comments
Turfgrass managers possess an exceptionally keen eye for detecting turf stress. That can be both a blessing and a curse in late summer. I remember dreading the morning drive to Ager Golf Course after being surprised by disease or drought stress the day before. Even...
Silverado is Championship Ready with GreenKeeper
by GreenKeeper | September 12, 2025 | Blog | 0 Comments
Silverado Golf Resort is once again in the spotlight as host of the PGA Tour’s ProCore Championship, and this year the course also welcomed the U.S. Ryder Cup team during tournament week. Behind the scenes, Director of Agronomy David Walter and his staff rely on the...
Driving Progress: How the GreenKeeper Team is Advancing Turf Management
by GreenKeeper | September 4, 2025 | Blog | 0 Comments
Just as turf managers worked tirelessly through another challenging summer, our team at GreenKeeper has also been busy. With the arrival of meteorological fall, it’s a perfect time to reflect on the progress we’ve made together—on the course, on the research plots,...
SOIL TESTING INTERPRETATION IS BROKEN
by Doug Soldat | Apr 9, 2018
By Doug Soldat, PhD The old saying goes “don’t guess, soil test”. The thought behind this axiom is that soil testing can prevent unnecessary applications of fertilizer that would’ve been applied if not for the soil test. This is probably true in some cases; but EIFG’s...