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ARC unveil bespoke golf club packages

May 11, 2020/in News, Press Release/by Sam Elder

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 […]

GDD Calculator aids more accurate decisions

May 11, 2020/in News, Press Release/by External Source

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 […]

ARC unveil bespoke golf club packages

May 11, 2020/in News, Press Release/by Sam Elder

GDD Calculator aids more accurate decisions

May 11, 2020/in News, Press Release/by External Source

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ARC unveil bespoke golf club packages

May 11, 2020/in News, Press Release/by Sam Elder

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

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

May 11, 2020/in News, Press Release/by External Source

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

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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ARC unveil bespoke golf club packages

GDD Calculator aids more accurate decisions

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GDD Calculator aids more accurate decisions

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ARC unveil bespoke golf club packages

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.

GDD Calculator aids more accurate decisions

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.

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