Merry Christmas!
We hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday season and gets to spend time with their family! Maybe we'll get a little snow this year and we can build a real snowman!
Happy Holidays everyone!!
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Brown Patch and What To Do About It
This is the time of year that we really start to see a lot of the Brown Patch fungus in St. Augustine in Southeast Texas. It doesn't normally kill your grass but it can make for an ugly yard!
Brown Patch, also known as Rhizoctonia blight, starts as small circular brown areas in your yard around 10" in diameter and can grow up to 10 feet. I did a search today for information about Brown Patch and how to treat it and came across a good article on The Livingston Parish News website out of Livingston, LA and I thought I'd just link to this excellent article instead of trying to recreate the information here.
We do talk about it on our own website in our FAQs if you want to talk a look at that also.
Once we get a good hard freeze that normally stops Brown Patch from spreading but it can do a lot of damage before that happens. Check out...
How LSU Athletics Manages Their Celebration Fields
Below is a video about the maintenance practices used by LSU Athletics on their Celebration Bermuda grass football field. This is a nice behind the scenes look at what goes into maintaining a college football field.
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Website Email Down – Updated: Back up and working!
Update 08-23-2013 2:00 PM: We believe the problem has been solved and the Contact Us page will now deliver your email to us. Again we apologize for the problem!
Apparently we have not been receiving the email from the Contact Us page on our website. We apologize if you've tried to contact us through that page and then never heard from us. We're working on a solution right now but still haven't figured out the problem so we've deactivated the Contact Us page for now.
Please call us at 281-328-2812 or 800-892-6704 if you have questions or need a quote. If you tried to contact us through our website email over the last few months please accept our apology for not responding and if you still need help call us at one of the numbers listed above.
Thank you for your understanding!...
A New Perspective on Turf @ TPI Summer Conference 2013
This is a link to a really cool video filmed at Payne Sod Farm in Manteno, Illinois, by our friends at Sod Solutions and Xaircraft America.
I was there (this is Scott Murff by the way) and got to see this being filmed and also took my own video. So in case you can't figure out how the first video was filmed, check out the one below to see how it was done. Very fun technology and I think Murff Turf may need one of these in the near future!
You can find out more about Xaircraft MultiRotor here....
2003 New Holland TL-80 Tractor For Sale – Update – Sold
UPDATE 3: We sold this tractor on 8-19-2013 so it is no longer available for sale.
We have a 2003 New Holland TL-80 tractor, s/n 1290242, with 11,531 hours on it available for sale if any one is interested. You'll see 1,531 hours on the picture below but the meter has rolled over so there's actually 11,531. There are hydraulic connections in the rear; PTO works but the 3 point hookup does not raise/lower. The price is $6,700. Call 281-328-2812 if you're interested and want to come look at it. Thank you!
Oh by the way, sorry about the reflections of my hands in the last picture! I know it's distracting but you can still see the hour meter.
UPDATE: Price changed to $6,700 on 7-22-2013.
UPDATE 2: The 3-Point Hook-up does work, checked out this morning 7-22-2013.
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