The Florida Landscape Management Association is hosting a limited commercial maintenance seminar May 29. If you cut lawns and/or maintain ornamentals at private homes and businesses, and wish to apply pesticides, including RoundUp, this six-hour training class is a requirement before obtaining the Limited Commercial Landscape Maintenance license. With this license you will be able…
BEATRICE, Neb. – Exmark has unveiled the latest addition to its industry leading line of EFI propane commercial mowers. The Vantage S-Series Propane 52-inch stand-on rider uses a Kohler EFI propane powerplant that delivers increases in fuel economy, performance and reliability. It is also environmentally friendly. Exmark Director of Marketing Daryn Walters said an increasing…
Larry Ryan, Ryan Lawn & Tree Mistake: I would not have gotten into Christmas lights. Too much risk and too little revenue when we are still producing revenue from other sources. Also, landscaping was an area we got into then out of. It is complicated and needs high detail people running it. We did not…
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Peak JCB, a new JCB dealer headquartered in West Valley City, Utah, will offer a wide variety of equipment including the renowned backhoe, track, and wheel loaders, rough terrain forklifts, innovative compactors, hydraulic excavators and the world’s safest skid steers. Established as Thermo King Intermountain (TKI) in 1944 by Warren…
REDMOND, Wash. – A former ValleyCrest executive has partnered with a private equity company to purchase Signature Landscape Services, and has his sights set on expanding down the West Coast. Brian Helgoe left ValleyCrest in July of 2014 after nine years with the company, where he served as vice president of operations for the landscape…
Coming up May 29 LMA Limited Commercial Class & CEU’s If you cut lawns and/or maintain ornamentals at private homes and businesses and wish to apply pesticides including Round-Up, then this six-hour training class is a requirement before obtaining the Limited Commercial Landscape Maintenance (LCLM) license (often called the “Round-Up License”). With this license…
Discounted attendee registration has opened for ASLA’s 2015 Annual Meeting & EXPO, to be held Nov. 6-9 in Chicago at McCormick Place. ASLA’s annual meeting is the largest gathering of landscape architecture professionals and students in the world. The 2015 meeting, themed “Perspectives,” highlights the comprehensive viewpoint that helps enable landscape architects to effectively…
BALTIMORE, Md. – The Professional Grounds Management Society (PGMS) will present its School of Grounds Management Summer Conference in Sacramento, Calif. from Aug. 3-5, 2015. Attendees to the PGMS event will go on behind-the-scenes tours of the University of California, Davis campus, a 4-star landscape management and operations accreditation campus, Raley Field, home of…
JOHNSON CREEK, Wis. – BOB-CAT announced the addition of the XRZ Pro to its line of zero-turn radius (ZTR) mowers. Designed to handle obstacles and diverse terrain, the mower is equipped with the BOB-CAT TufDeck Pro cutting system to prevent scalping. HG ZT-3400 twin hydrostatic transaxles and a Kawasaki engine propel the…
Jim Huston It was 3:08 a.m. and a few degrees below zero when I drove out of Jackson, Wyo., in late January. The day before, I had just wrapped up facilitating a brainstorming meeting for 18 landscape companies from all parts of the U.S. It was a diverse group comprised of commercial installation and maintenance,…
