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Biofertilizers, soil conditioners, and biostimulants

Andrew McGuire, an agronomist with Washington State University, wrote that bio-products are “risky because decades of experience and research have found these products fail, or fail inconsistently, or have small benefits that don’t cover their cost.

Micah Woods

2024-11-20 2 min read

Biofertilizers, soil conditioners, and biostimulants

The questions I ask

I’m lucky. I get to visit a lot of golf courses. When I visit a course, I ask a series of questions that helps me to understand more about the property, the superintendent, and the grass.

Micah Woods

2024-11-13 1 min read

Estimating nitrogen mineralization: an example

If you’ve got some organic matter in the soil, then you will get some nitrogen (N) that the grass can use from it. This is called mineralization. As the organic matter decomposes, some of the N that was in the organic matter is converted into inorganic forms in the soil.

Micah Woods

2024-11-11 4 min read

Estimating nitrogen mineralization: an example

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About

Micah Woods established the Asian Turfgrass Center (ATC) in 2006 to develop and provide turfgrass information for the golf and sports turf industry. Through the ATC, he provides turfgrass advisory and soil testing services to golf clubs, sports facilities, and select clients around the world. Since 2009, he has been an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Tennessee. Since 2022, he has been director of the PACE Turf information service.

Micah manages to keep his eyes on the ground, studying the turfgrass species wherever he is in the world. He remains well grounded in the practical aspects of the golf game and his writing has been praised for its accessible style. Author of over two hundred articles in publications such as GOLF Magazine and Soil Science as well as books with intriguing titles like One Bucket at a Time and 芝草科学とグリーンキーピング: マイカの時間 The BOOK, Micah enjoys spending time creating animated charts and graphs of the data he has collected while discovering unexpected statistics.

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