I’m one of the few that started from the onset. I worked at a garden center in high school, went straight into landscape architecture at Texas Tech, came out and went into business. That was a long time ago, like 1978. I owned my own deal for 18 years and sold in with the TruGreen…
ST. LOUIS, Mo.– Monsanto Company and The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company announced the two companies have extended their nearly two-decade long partnership in the lawn and garden consumer market. Since 1999, Scotts Miracle-Gro, through one of its subsidiaries, has served as Monsanto’s exclusive agent for the marketing and distribution of Roundup non-selective herbicides in the…
Decisions, decisions. Lawn care operators make a multitude of choices every day. One fairly important one is whether to use granular or liquid fertilizer. The problem is that there is no one-size-fits-all solution. Granular fertilizer contains nutrients in a pellet form that is applied with a spreader. Once it hits the ground, it requires external…
As part of this year’s Top 100 coverage, Lawn & Landscape convened CEOs, presidents and other leaders from companies on the list. We asked to eavesdrop on their conversations – which ranged from how to find good employees to how to choose services to how to make the landscape industry sexier – so we could…
Andrew Karl Smith January 23, 1965 ~ May 14, 2015 Andrew Karl Smith, 50, of Boyne City, Mich., passed away May 14 in Ann Arbor, Mich., at the University of Michigan Health System. Smith was born January 23, 1965 in Lansing, Mich. to Beverly (Brynglesom) and Frank Smith, Jr. He grew up in Lansing…
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…
The Weathermatic Board of Directors has elected Malcolm S. Morris as its chairman of the board. Morris currently serves as chairman of Stewart Title Guaranty Company. He is also vice chairman of Stewart Information Services Corporation. Morris is a member of the American Bar Association, member of the State Bar of Texas and the…
SOUTHAVEN, Miss. – General Rentals, of Evansville, Ind., has taken possession of a new Terex R190T compact track loader with a one-of-a-kind pin striping and custom paint job from Joey Hutson Artistry of West Monroe, La. Steven and Pete Powell, owners of General Rentals, an American Rental Association member, purchased the R190T loader. Artists Joey…
Aquatrols Corporation of America is pleased to announce a new Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with Dr. Matt Madsen and the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service. The objective of the new CRADA is to further refine and evaluate surfactant seed coating technologies for use in wildfire rehabilitation, turf and pasture grasses, restoration species and…
WEST BEND, Wis. – In 1965, Owatonna Manufacturing Company (today a part of Manitou Americas), began designing and manufacturing its own line of skid steer loaders. They were the second manufacturer to develop skid steer loaders, at that time known as “self-propelled, four-wheel drive units,” starting with the Owatonna Mustang Series 1000. The Mustang…
