RECENT EVENT
MTC ANNUAL CONFERENCE
WOW!
Anyone who missed the 46 Annual MTC Winter Conference on December 14, 2021, at Turf Valley Resort missed a real opportunity for up-to-date education, fantastic networking, and of course picking up needed Pesticide and Fertilizer Law Applicator recertification from MD and surrounding jurisdictions plus Education Points from the GCSAA. We had nearly 350 attendees at the first “live” conference after being required to go virtual last year. Everyone followed our covid policy including not coming if you woke up the day of the conference and didn’t feel well. Thanks to Sara Ellis, these folks were able to join the few who were still not comfortable
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MTC TURF NEWS
in a crowd, and 21 gained their credits by watching the Lawn & Landscape Management Session by Zoom. The speakers were fabulous and included such Turfgrass Specialists like Dr. Doug Linde from Delaware Valley, Brad Jakubowski from Penn State, Brad Parks from Rutgers, Dr. Joe Doherty from Univ. of MD, Steve McDonald from Turfgrass Diseases Solutions, Geoff Rinehart from Univ of MD-IAA, Shavya Peddigari from Univ of MD, David Clement from Univ. of MD H&GC, Dr. Kevin Mathias Univ. of MD Emeritus, as well special presentations from Elliott Downing of USGA, Pete Wendt from Congressional CC and Kyle Steidel from Caves Valley CC, Tom Kirsch from MT Branch GC, Jason Bowers
