Economic Profile of Atlanta Landscape Maintenance and Lawn Care Firms

Economic Profile of Atlanta Landscape Maintenance and Lawn Care Firms

This project received partial funding from the Pollution Prevention Assistance Division of the Georgia Dept. of Natural Resources. The cost of publishing this paper was defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. Under postal regulations, this paper therefore must be hereby marked advertisement solely to indicate this fact. Landscape maintenance and lawn care (LM/LC) services are a rapidly...

Lawn Care and Landscape Maintenance Professional Acceptance of Insect- and Disease-resistant Ornamental Plants

Although lawn care and landscape maintenance professionals appear increasingly willing to use Integrated Pest Management (IPM) strategies and adopt nonchemical pest management alternatives into management practices, the opinions of landscape management professionals have not been assessed regarding anticipated influences of increased use of insectand disease-resistant ornamental plants on groun...

Autonomous Lawn Care Applications

This robot is designed to test the practicality of constructing an autonomous lawn care system. It will also allow experimentation with several technologies and help to investigate their practical applications. The first prototype of this platform will use an RF emitting wire as a containment field, random walk programming to control obstacle and field limit boundary reactions, and a linear mot...

Maintaining a Nice Green Lawn: The Competitive Landscape in Lower Profile College Sports

Marketing IPM For Lawn Care

continued on page 4 All of these strategies are combined or integrated to manage turf in a healthy and vigorous state. No one strategy necessarily takes precedence over another. Like the pieces of a puzzle, all are critical to complete the entire picture of turfgrass management. An interesting way to view this concept is to visualize the management process as a pyramid. (See Figure 1). The base...