Bayer Environmental Science has launched a new program aimed at advancing plant health research and education, with GCSAA members and the association’s philanthropic organization, the Environmental Institute for Golf, serving as the prime beneficiaries.
Dubbed Healthy Turf, Healthy Tomorrow, the multi-faceted program will include in-person training for select superintendents, as well as plant-health focused demonstration courses, webinars and scholarships. To fund the program, Bayer will invest a percentage of sales of its StressGard fungicide products each year for three years — expected to be a minimum of $100,000 each year — to the EIFG.
“We are appreciative of Bayer Environmental Science’s backing of the Environmental Institute for Golf. It demonstrates a commitment to the future of the game,” says Rhett Evans, CEO of GCSAA and the EIFG. “The funds will be invested in research-based programs that will support golf course superintendents and enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of their operations.”
One of the prime outcomes of this program will be the creation of the Healthy Turf, Healthy Tomorrow Plant Health Academy, which will feature a two-part plant health curriculum that will involve classroom training at GCSAA headquarters in Lawrence, Kan., and in-the-field training at the Bayer Training and Development Center in Clayton, N.C. Twelve superintendents annually will be selected to participate in the academy, with all expenses covered by the program. For more information, visit www.backedbybayer.com/healthy-turf.
“Bayer is uniquely positioned to provide technologies and the depth of knowledge to optimize plant and community health,” says Jose Milan, the head of Bayer’s turf and ornamentals business. Our support of the EIFG is a natural result of our shared commitment to education and sustainable practices and will help ensure the health of superintendents’ courses — and that of the industry — now and in the future.”
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