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Landscaping equipment

Product roundup: CarryCat designed for landscapers’ hand tools

Husqvarna adds three new Automower lawn mowers and Earth & Turf Products’ new “CarryCat” tool carrier is just for landscape contractors. Click to read more.

June 7, 2016

Business

Briefly: Landscape industry news and product roundup

Toro makes a charitable donation and New Holland donates big to the Fisher House Foundation. Click to read more in this landscaping industry news roundup.

May 16, 2016

Business

Landscapers launch preemptive attacks with pre-emergent herbicides

No one wants weeds in their yard, and the best way to go about eliminating them is to prevent them. This is where pre-emergent herbicides come into play.

March 9, 2016

Design-Build

Startup creates buzz with unique delivery system: bees

Pollinators help out the environment a lot, but one Canadian startup has found a new way that bees can aid in plant health. Bee Vectoring Technologies’ goal is to target the market for pesticides and fertilizers with a biopesticide that is spread by, you guessed it, bees. BVT uses a hive of bumblebees that is […]

February 6, 2016

Business

New research cites glyphosate as threat to bees

As if honey bees didn’t have it bad enough, a new study has found that exposure to the chemical glyphosate – the active ingredient in the popular herbicide Roundup – impairs a bee’s ability to return home. The study, conducted by German and Argentinian scientists, was published in the Journal of Experimental Biology. The researchers […]

September 22, 2015

Business

Intelligro targets lawn-care market with new herbicide

Intelligro, a subsidiary of Suncor Energy, has introduced a hybrid selective herbicide for lawn-care and landscape professionals called Civitas WeedFree. While the product should not be applied to Bentgrass or Floratam, a variety of St. Augustine grass, its patent-pending formula kills more than 60 broadleaf weeds, has no offensive odor and boasts a fast response […]

September 16, 2015

Business

Man claims to be sprayed with pesticides, sues landscaping company

A landscaping company from Rockville, Maryland, is being sued for $55,000 by an Oregon man who says he was sprayed with pesticides by one of the company’s workers while sitting at an outdoor café on July 18, 2013. According to The Oregonian, Dennis Delano filed the suit in Multnomah County Circuit Court last week. Delano […]

July 20, 2015

Business

FMC touts higher application efficiency of new herbicide formulation

FMC has introduced a new water-soluble liquid herbicide formulation, Solitare WSL, which the company says increases application efficiency while controlling more than 40 weeds. The new Solitare formulation contains a surfactant for faster plant penetration and does not settle out or separate when mixed with water. Designed to combat crabgrass, sedges and broadleaf weeds in a […]

June 23, 2015

Business

Weed-control expert shares advice on fighting all varieties

Weeds may not grow bigger in Texas, but the state certainly has its share of the darn things. Fortunately for landscape professionals there and elsewhere, the state is also home to Paul Baumann, former Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service state weed specialist. Baumann is an internationally known expert on herbicide symptomology, integrated weed management in […]

May 28, 2015

Business

University sues landscaper to collect damages from insurance company

A university in Northwestern Ohio is suing a landscaping company in order to collect $25,000 in damages from the company’s insurance company, which has refused to cover all of the school’s costs for replacing lawn that was incorrectly treated with herbicide last year. The University of Findlay, located about 40 miles south of Toledo, told […]

May 11, 2015

Business

Chemical care: Five tips for pre-emergent herbicides

Pre-emergent herbicides are the foundation of any weed management program. They aim to prevent weeds from getting established, rather than attempting to control them after they’ve taken over. “In general, pre-emergents inhibit root development,” says Peter Landschoot, Ph.D., professor of turfgrass science at Penn State University. “They’re designed to stay on the surface of the […]

March 3, 2015

Business

SipcamAdvan to have exclusive access to Rotam products

SipcamAdvan will be the exclusive marketer and seller of Rotam North America’s turf and ornamental product line starting March 1. This includes Rotam’s Lucid and Lada insecticides, Offset fungicide, and Rowrunner ATO and Rometsol herbicides. Any new products developed by Rotam will also be accessible to SipCamAdvan.

February 27, 2015