The program supported by Bayer Environmental Science provides full funding to attend this year’s event in San Diego. For the second year in a row, five of the winners are from hurricane-affected areas.
Downriver GC Starts Honeybee Restoration Program
The Spokane, Wash. course has transformed a little over an acre into a foraging area for pollinators, and expects to have wildflowers, a tomato garden and a pumpkin patch become permanent features of its sixth and 16th holes. The club has also reduced pesticide usage by 60 percent through use of a “compost tea” that combats a common grass fungus.
Five GCSAA Members Win Trips to Golf Industry Show
The superintendents, selected through a random drawing, won expenses-paid trips to the 2015 show in San Antonio, February 21-26, through the Bayer Superintendent Grant Program.
Wrongful Death Suit Filed Against Pesticide Manufacturers
A Pittsburgh sportscaster has filed a lawsuit against Monsanto, Bayer CropScience, BASF, Syngenta, Dow Agroscience, Deere and Company, and John Deere Landscapes after his father, a golf course superintendent, died from cancer in 2009.