Save time and money with OneShot

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Save time and money with OneShot: The OneShot range of products from Indigrow have been developed to maximise return on investment for the turf manager. The highly concentrated formulation requires minimal storage space, reduces transport cost and environmental impact and helps save time due to their excellent tank-mix-ability.

The ‘OneShot’ Range

  • A wide range of options
  • Supplied in easy-to-use, pre-measured, no mess sachets
  • Highly cost effective
  • Fully tank mix compatible
  • Improve turf health
  • Less storage space required – no more large 20lt/200lt drums
  • Reduced packaging waste
  • Fewer transport emissions
Save time and money with OneShot

Save time and money with OneShot

What’s In The Range?

  1. Compass Bio-Active OneShot – concentrated seaweed extract – a plant stimulant and soil conditioner in the form of a pure seaweed liquid, manufactured from Ascophyllum nodosum seaweed using gentle spray drying technology to avoid excessive thermal degradation
  2. Humik NPK OneShot – NPK 15-5-15 with humic & fulvic acid – the humic and fulvic acids will help to encourage microbial growth and support all round soil fertility and health
  3. Solar Pro-Active OneShot – phosphite foliar feed – a truly foliar feed, high in phosphite, designed to help dramatically reduce plant stress during the summer months
  4. Fusion Tracer OneShot – trace element package – a liquid trace element package and has been developed to include a wide range of micronutrients
  5. Turbine Amino OneShot – amino acid package – containing 35% of plant available free L-amino acids, which, when applied to plants suffering from environmental stress can help improve turf health and quality
  6. Turbine Humate OneShot – humic and fulvic acids – aids in the breakdown of toxins and directly reduces the plants uptake of toxins. It also directly encourages microbial growth, of both flora and fauna, which add to general soil fertility and health
  7. Magnum Forty-Four OneShot – penetrant wetting agent – offers economical yet superior turf wetting and water penetration on hydrophobic soils. It can be used to aid the spread and penetration of foliar fertilisers

  8. Save time and money with OneShot

    Save time and money with OneShot

More information these and our other products can be found on our website: www.indigrow.com

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Campey begin reintroduction to work plan

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Campey begin reintroduction to work plan: Campey Turf Care Systems is putting plans in place to safely reintroduce the team over the next few weeks that will still strictly adhere to government social distancing guidelines.

As an industry that contains essential workers, meeting the needs of customers has been vital. At Campey this has been carried out with the safety of staff, customers and any potential people they may come into contact with as a priority and is the primary consideration of the reintroduction plan.

Campey begin reintroduction to work plan

Campey begin reintroduction to work plan

Like many other companies, Campey has been operating with a skeleton staff at the main office to provide customers with key parts and tines and has stopped all demos because transporting machines to various sites cannot be classed as essential travel. During this time the understanding from customers that orders may be slightly delayed has been fantastic as has the understanding that demos aren’t necessary at this time, with any future demos requested set to be fulfilled when it is safe to do so.

Where customers have deemed it essential, machinery has been available for collection at the main office using a well thought out routine that eliminates the need for personal contact. Using this as a basis, Campey is confident that as the government guidelines are changed, they will be ready without delay.

Campey begin reintroduction to work plan

Campey begin reintroduction to work plan

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ARC unveil bespoke golf club packages

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ARC unveil bespoke golf club packages: ARC, a global signage company and specialist providers of health and safety collateral, have created a special signage solution ready for implementation across golf clubs worldwide.

The business has been providing vital safety and social distancing signage and associated safety visuals for UK Critical Infrastructure Services since the introduction of nationwide lockdown measures. This allows businesses, now including golf clubs, to be fully compliant with the UK Government’s safety and social distancing guidelines.

ARC unveil bespoke golf club packages

ARC unveil bespoke golf club packages

As an approved UK government supplier, the company has been developing guidelines and materials across several industries, including construction, designed specifically to help bring people back into a safe operational environment once lockdown measures have eased.

“We’re excited to be launching our golf club and industry-specific packages,” said Darren Moorhouse,” Head of Sales UK and Europe for ARC. “It’s imperative that, on golf’s return, staff and golfers across UK clubs are kept safe, and professionally implemented signage solutions are absolutely the key to that.

“We’ve already had significant interest in our solutions from clubs, and as a specialist in public safety measures, we have government approval to install immediately – which means we can get a golf club ready in time for full reopening.”

“It seems likely that social distancing and other measure will be around for a while. We expect it to be a fluid process, as in other industries, and once we’re engaged with a club we see it as our role to help bring them back to normality, however long that takes, and without incurring significant repeat costs.”

Due to the fluidity of the current imposed safety measures, the service offered enables compliant updates and revisions to be applied as and when required, and in line with recommendations.

On request, interested clubs can obtain a free consultation via video conference, followed by an on-site survey. There are gold, silver and bronze golf club packages available depending on requirements.

All materials can be tailored exactly to a club’s needs and environment, including bespoke branding, fonts and colour options.

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GDD Calculator aids more accurate decisions

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GDD Calculator aids more accurate decisions: A new Syngenta GreenCast Growing Degree Day calculator is set to provide turf managers with a more accurate tool to help make better decisions on timing for Primo Maxx II applications and other actions.  

The GreenCast GDD Calculator will automatically generate a predictive email notification when a user defined Growing Degree Day (GDD) target is approaching – in time for greenkeepers to assess local conditions and to decide what actions to take.   

GDD Calculator aids more accurate decisions

GDD Calculator aids more accurate decisions

Commenting on the live launch of the GDD Calculator on GreenCast this week (11 May 2020), Syngenta Technical Manager, Glenn Kirby, said: “We know that GDD can be a useful guide to many turf management actions.  

“However, from my own and other greenkeepers’ experience, the challenge in a busy working schedule is finding the time to regularly record the temperature information and the reliability of that weather data source. 

“The GDD Calculator does that all autonomously, and provides easy to interpret information in time to use for every day decision making.” 

Advancing GDD to a new level, the GreenCast calculator utilises immense data processing capability to compute figures from hourly temperatures throughout the 24-hour period, compared to a simplistic daily high and low temperature conventionally used in GDD calculation.  

“That better reflects the duration of growing conditions through the day, for a more accurate assessment of how turf will actually perform,” advised Glenn. 

Evaluation compared to conventional GDD calculation has highlighted it is more responsive to assess onset of true growing conditions, particularly through early spring, and as growth declines in the autumn.       

Users can set their own target GDD figure, or multiple targets if GDD is being used to aid decisions on different aspects of turf management, such as Primo Maxx II intervals, fertiliser programmes or pest risks, for example. 

Glenn highlights Growing Degree Days have been shown to be an extremely useful guide for timing of turf management decisions. But he cautions that much of the research and many of the models have been based on US trials, under different conditions and with different grass species seen in the UK. 

“The Syngenta GDD Calculator gives far greater flexibility to be able to utilise and interpret a wide range of information resources. But they do all need to be validated against an individual course’s specific conditions to see how they can be applied.  

Uniquely, the Syngenta calculator allows users to adjust the base temperature used in calculations. Whilst a normal base for the UK is 6°C, which reflects the onset of consistent turf growth, Glenn suggests, many US models work from a base of 10°C – which generates hugely different cumulative GDD figures.  

“It is crucial to understand how recommendations have been calculated and the information on which they are based, and then use the GDD Calculator to interpret how that will work on your course,” he advocated. 

Whilst a GDD of 150 may be appropriate for Primo Maxx II intervals on one specific course, for example, he points out another course with a different management style, turf species or soil types, may find they get better results by repeating applications at a GDD of 140.     

The GDD calculator is now being used at STRI in Yorkshire, as part of a new initiative assessing Primo Maxx II applications and intervals to aid turf management under lower intensity lockdown management. 

“For the first time, there will be scientifically assessed GDD data for cool season grasses under UK growing conditions, to enable turf managers to better interpret existing turf growth models for their own individual situations,” added Glenn.  

”It is free and easy to use, so would urge anyone to start gathering the data and assess how it correlates to their own decision making process now, to be able to further integrate GDD in the future,”  

The Syngenta GDD Calculator is available for all UK turf managers, agronomists and researchers registered on the GreenCast website.

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AH75 the solution to excessive first cuts

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AH75 the solution to excessive first cuts: With the impending difficulty some green space professionals will soon be experiencing from a delayed first cut, many are turning to the Etesia Attila AH75 brushcutter as a solution. 

The Etesia Attila AH75 brushcutter offers ride-on performance in a pedestrian machine and has been designed to work in the toughest of conditions. This powerful workhorse effectively deals with clearing vegetation from a wide variety of sites – long grass, weeds, bracken and brambles on woodland paths or orchards. Ease of operation and manoeuvrability ensure total efficiency and high output.

AH75 the solution to excessive first cuts

AH75 the solution to excessive first cuts

At a time when many will be facing excessive first cuts, green space professionals – particularly those working for local authorities and landscape contractors, will find the Etesia Attila AH75 a cost-effective solution. At just £3,200 plus VAT, this reliable and powerful machine has been proven to outperform many of its counterparts at a fraction of the price.

The Attila AH75 is powered by the Honda GXV 390 engine and fitted with a T3 transmission combining differential lock and front wheel locking system with a simple height of cut adjustment from the new handle bar design which allows movement into offset for use on slopes.

Efficiency

  • Heavy-duty brush cutting (up to Ø30)
  • Mowing on the most difficult slopes (up to 20°) thanks to the hydraulic transmission with a differential lock
  • Two idlers that can be locked without a tool for improved stability on slopes
  • Possibility to fit two wider rear wheels as an option
  • Cutting height adjustment with three positions from the new handle bar design
  • Handle offset control from the operating position with three working positions and one transport position

Comfort

  • High manoeuvrability thanks to the hydraulic transmission – three forward speeds and one reverse speed
  • Differential lock can be engaged without interrupting movement
  • All operating controls are available from the operating position for convenience and safety
  • Central handle bar that allows easier access to low controls (parking brake, forward transmission bypass, engine starter), with full protection for cables
  • Parking brake for safe immobilisation
  • Anti-vibration rubber handles

Ruggedness

  • Machine can be moved into vertical position to gain access to the cutter blade for maintenance and cleaning
  • Maintenance-free hydrostatic transmission with forced-air cooling, integrated expansion vessel
  • Flail blades: reversible, protect the blade transmission system, low maintenance costs
  • Rugged and reliable engine: Engine crank shaft mounted on bearings.

A full two-year commercial warranty comes as standard.

You can view a video of the machine in action: https://youtu.be/LDpj7a013Ys

For further information, please contact Etesia UK on 01295 680120 or visit www.etesia.co.uk.

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