2012 Northern Green Expo Program

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WEDNESDAY, JA

NUARY 4, 2012 | SESSIONS

8:20am—9:20am Speaker Room #

Pros and Cons of Ash Replacement Options Tim Vogel 102ABC

Turfgrass Research Update Brian Horgan, Eric Watkins 102DEF

Plants: Finding the COOL Stuff! Lloyd Traven 103BCDE

Diagnosing & Correcting Nutritional Soil Disorders in

Landscape Plants

Carl Rosen 208CD

Time Management Techniques for the Green Industry -

Get More Done in Less Time, and Still Have a Life

Jeffrey Scott 211

Irrigation Basics – The Occasional Repair Jeff Latterell 212

Identifying and Troubleshooting Turf Aftercut

Appearance Issues

Carl Osterhaus 213


Keynote— Top Performer: A Bold Approach to Service

and Life

Carr Hagerman Ballroom A

12:30pm—1:20pm Speaker Room #

Conifers for the Northern Midwest Mark Van Hoef 102ABC

Most Common Problems Encountered During Golf Course Site Visits

Tim Moraghan 102DEF

Carpe Trendum---Plant Trends and Opportunities To Lloyd Traven 103BCDE

Sales Tax Issues and the Green Industry Scott Nichols 208AB

Raingarden Maintenance C. Coudron, J. Davidson, M. Isensee 208CD

Winning the Price Wars - How to Sell Value and Win More Clients in the New Economy

Jeffrey Scott 211

Irrigation Troubleshooting: 2 Wire Jeff Latterell 212

Turf Weed Control: New Products David Gardner 213


Insecticide Options and Application Techniques for Management of Wood Boring Insects

Shawn Bernick 102ABC

Golf Course Material Testing and Construction Norm Hummel 102DEF

Edible Ornamentals, Combinations, and Landscapes Lloyd Traven 103BCDE

Introduction to Human Resources - A How-To Guide to Hiring Employees

Lori Ellingson, Patrick McGuiness 208AB

Award-Winning Landscapes: Design, Part 1 Craig Trenary, moderator 208CD

The Referral Advantage - A Contrarian Approach that will Grow Your Landscape Business Faster

Jeffrey Scott 211

Water Conservation and Efficiency in Irrigation, Part 1 Craig Otto, Tim Malooly 212

Small Engine Maintenance, Testing & Repair Carl Osterhaus 213


Bur Oak Blight: A Newly Recognized Disease on Bur Oak Tom Harrington 102ABC

Golf Course Design, Renovation, and Maintenance, Local Case Studies

Brian Horgan, moderator 102DEF

Design Soils and Planting in Urban Streetscapes James Urban 103BCDE

How the Government Got in Your Backyard Jeff Gillman, Eric Heberlig 205

Human Resources - How to Handle Problem Employees Lori Ellingson, Patrick McGuiness 208AB

Award-Winning Landscapes: Design, Part 2 Craig Trenary, moderator 208CD

No Fines Concrete as a Retaining Wall Backfill Tim Huinker 211

Water Conservation and Efficiency in Irrigation, Part 2 Craig Otto, Tim Malooly 212

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THURSDAY, JA

NUARY 5, 2012 | SESSIONS


Compact Woodies for the Landscape Dave Wanninger 102ABC

Golf: Managing Your Manager, Committee and Boards,

Part 1

Bernard Cronin 102DEF


Detective Dendro: The Early Years Guy Meilleur 102ABC


Part 2


Horticultural Discoveries in the Czech Republic Neil Anderson 103BCDE

Inventory is Your Retail Heart…Is It Healthy? Paul Erickson 208AB

Award-Winning Landscapes: Installation & Management Doug Geesaman, moderator 208CD

Stormwater Management: Reclamation & Re-Use -

Target Field Case Study

Todd Gleason 211

Wire Locating/Tracking, Part 1 Jeff Latterell 212

The 10 Largest Mistakes When Building a Sports Field Zac Reicher 213


Tree Planting Installation Techniques Dave Kleinhuizen, Dennis Ullom 102ABC


Part 3


Perennial Plant Communities "The Know Maintenace

Approach"

Roy Diblick 103BCDE

Nine Things for Retailers to Start Doing to Survive and

Thrive During the Recession

Paul Erickson 208AB

Spring Flowering Shrubs Dave Wanninger 208CD

Back to the Basics: Asphalt & Concrete David Howrey 211

Wire Locating/Tracking, Part 2 Jeff Latterell 212

Getting the Most Bang For Your Buck in Sports Turf Zac Reicher 213


Detective Dendro Strikes Again Guy Meilleur 102ABC

Uncovering the Architectural History of Your Golf Course Anthony Pioppi 102DEF

Crew Leader Idea Exchange Patrick Warden 205

Garden Center Panel D. Engelmann, D. Konetschka,

C. Corby, K. Ballou, moderator

208AB

Wetland Protection and Mitigation Steve Lawler 208CD

Selling Design with your Build: How is a Designed-in

Landscape Different from an Added-on Landscape?

Sarah Nettleton 211

Weather Based Irrigation Controls, Part 1 Craig Otto, Tim Malooly 212

Aquatics Recertification (cat F), Part 1 John Barten, Dick Osgood 213


Value-Added BioProducts for the Nursery and Landscape

Industry

Alan Doering 102ABC

Golf Course: Managing Turf in Shade John Stier 102DEF

Coming to Know the Plants Roy Diblick 103BCDE

Maintaining Natives Mike Evenocheck 208CD

Garden Center Speed Networking Van Cooley, moderator 209AB

Weather Based Irrigation Controls, Part 2 Craig Otto, Tim Malooly 212

Aquatics Recertification (cat F), Part 2 John Barten, Dick Osgood 213

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Waitea Gone Wild – Research of Early Summer 2011 in

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New Plant Forum Debbie Lonnee, moderator 208CD


Evolving Echinacea - A Look at Recent Developments

Within this Common Perennial

Mike Heger 208CD

Should Henry Be Out There? John Stier 213


Hands-On and In-Depth Training to Become an MNLA

Certified Professional, Part 1

MNLA Certification Committee 211


Don't Be Scared - Web Tools Can Be Your Best Friend! Brad Tabke 208AB

Developing a Sustainable Golf Course Business Model Tom Mead 213


Reducing Runoff Roundtables Joe Schaffer, moderator 205

In-Depth: Natural Stone Scott Reynolds 208AB


Hands-On and In-Depth Training to Become an MNLA

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Detective Dendro Strikes Again Guy Meilleur 102ABC

Uncovering the Architectural History of Your Golf Course Anthony Pioppi 102DEF

Crew Leader Idea Exchange Patrick Warden 205

Garden Center Panel D. Engelmann, D. Konetschka,

C. Corby, K. Ballou, moderator

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Wetland Protection and Mitigation Steve Lawler 208CD

Selling Design with your Build: How is a Designed-in

Landscape Di�erent from an Added-on Landscape?

Sarah Nettleton 211

Weather Based Irrigation Controls, Part 1 Craig Otto 212

Aquatics Recerti�cation (cat F), Part 1 John Barten, Dick Osgood 213


Value-Added BioProducts for the Nursery and Landscape

Industry

Alan Doering 102ABC

Golf Course: Managing Turf in Shade John Stier 102DEF

Coming to Know the Plants Roy Diblick 103BCDE

Maintaining Natives Mike Evenocheck 208CD

Garden Center Speed Networking Van Cooley, moderator 209AB

Weather Based Irrigation Controls, Part 2 Craig Otto 212

Aquatics Recerti�cation (cat F), Part 2 John Barten, Dick Osgood 213

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MDA General Session – Mock Inspection, Regulations,

and EAB Update

M. Abrahamson, K. Sargent, L. Berg 103BCDE


Nursery/Arborist: Pest Management Application

Techniques for the Tree Care Professional

Shawn Bernick 102ABC

Turf/Golf: Pesticides, Perception and Society John Stier 102DEF

Greenhouse: Plant Growth Regulators for Northern

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Personal Protective Equipment and Pesticides Stacey Enders 103BCDE


Nursery/Arborist: Diseases of Deciduous and Conifer

Trees

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Turf/Golf: Testing Alternatives to Fungicides For Disease

Control on Golf Fairways Derek Settle 102DEF

Greenhouse: Best New Rotations for Different Pest and

Disease Problems in Ornamental Production

John Erwin 103BCDE

1:50pm-2:30pm Speaker Room #

Personal Protective Equipment - Gloves Michelle Grabowski 103BCDE


Nursery/Arborist/Greenhouse: Herbicide Equipment

Calibration and Application Techniques

Dale Sutherland 102ABC

Turf/Golf: Effective Application of Fertilizer and Plant

Protectants

Luke Dant 102DEF

Category A and E - By attending the Pesticide Recertification workshop at the Northern Green Expo on Friday, January 6, you are completing the recertification requirements in Categories A - Core and E - Turf and Ornamentals. This workshop has been approved by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA). Licensed applicators with Categories A and E who last attended a recertification workshop in 2011, and new-licensed pesticide applicators in 2011, must attend an MDA-approved workshop in 2012. By attending of the Pesticide Recertification track and completing the on-site attendance documentation, applicators will obtain recertification credit.

The morning and afternoon start with general sessions that are required for all recertifying applicators. There are also breakout sessions where participants can choose sessions of interest. Applicators must attend the entire Pesticide Recertification track (4 general sessions plus 2 break-out sessions) to obtain MDA recertification credit. Attendance will be monitored. The MDA reserves the right to deny recertification credit to participants who arrive later than 30 minutes after the start of the program or who are absent during substantial portions of the program. Workshop participants should bring license identification cards to the workshop.

Category F (Aquatics) - The Northern Green Expo is again offering a Category F session at the 2012 Northern Green Expo on Thursday, January 5 from 2:00pm – 3:50pm. In order for licensed applicators to get an credit for Category F - Aquatics, they must attend both Thursday afternoon Aquatics Pesticide Recertification and the Friday Pesticide Recertification.

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Presentations and DemonstrationsAll sessions to be held at the Education-on-the-Go Stage on the trade show floor unless otherwise indicated.

Wednesday, January 4

7:30 am - 9:30 am Tips for Submitting an MNLA Landscape Awards EntryMNLA Landscape Awards Committee Members (Lobby E)

10:45 am – 11:15 am Pruning Trees in the Nursery, Mark Laberee

11:30 am - 12:30 pm Tree Climbing Demo, MSA

11:45 am – 12:15 pm Mock DOT Vehicle Inspection, The Builders Group

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm Pruning Trees and Shrubs in the Garden Center, Mike Bender

1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Tree Climbing Demo, MSA

4:45 pm – 5:15 pm Tips for Troubleshooting Small Engine Problems in the Field, Paul Ocheltree

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19:30 am – 10:00 am Pruning Trees & Shrubs in the Landscape, Craig Pinkalla

10:30 am - 11:30 am Tips for Submitting an MNLA Landscape Awards EntryMNLA Landscape Awards Committee Members (Lobby E)

10:45 am - 11:15 am Irrigation Scheduling in Relation to Soil TypeTodd Cradit


11:30 am - 1:30 pm Tree Climbing Demo, MSA

12:15 pm - 12:45 pm Helping Cities Understand the Role of Permeable Pavers in Stormwater Management, Tim Oberg

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm Mock DOT Vehicle Inspection, The Builders Group

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Tree Climbing Demo, MSA

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Register Early for a Discount

Prior to December 23, 2011, Expo registration is offered at a discount. Pre-registration ensures timely processing of your registration and helps avoid onsite lines. Register by December 16, 2011, and your badge will be mailed to you in advance. Members of the following associations receive an additional $25 discount off standard rates: MNLA, MGCSA, MPSTMA, MAC, MASMS, MSA, MTA, and MTSC.

3 Ways to Pre-Register

1. Online: Please complete the registration form online at www.NorthernGreenExpo.org.

2. Mail: Please complete the registration form which can be printed online with your full name and address information. Mail the form along with payment via check or credit card to Northern Green Expo, 1813 Lexington Ave N, Roseville, MN 55113.

3. Fax: Please complete the registration form which can be printed online with your full name and address information. Credit card payment must be provided on the faxed form in order for it to be processed. Fax the registration page to 651-633-4986 or toll-free 888-266-4986.

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Hotel Accommodations

• The Hyatt Regency Hotel Minneapolis is the Northern Green Expo’s headquarters hotel and is connected by skyway to the Minneapolis Convention Center. The Hyatt is home to Spike’s, Oceanaire, and the Regency Health Club and Spa.

Discounted Room Rates Available! Room Rate: $97. Discounted rooms are limited, so make your reservations now by calling toll free 888-421-1442.

• The Millennium Hotel is connected by skyway to the Hyatt Regency and the Minneapolis Convention Center. The Millennium hosts Martini’s Lobby Lounge and Nic’s on Nicollet.

Discounted Room Rates Available! Room Rate: $97. Discounted rooms are limited so make your reservations now by calling toll free 866-866-8086.

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Trade Show Schedule

Hundreds of exhibitors in a 178,000 square foot exhibit hall. For a full listing of exhibitors, please visit the Vendor Directory online at www.NorthernGreenExpo.org.

Wednesday, January 4 10:30am – 5:30pm Thursday, January 5 9:30am – 5:30pm Friday, January 6 9:30am – 1:00pm Dedicated Trade Show Hours

Wednesday, January 4

10:30am—12:30pm 1:20pm—2:40pm 4:40pm—5:30pm Thursday, January 5

10:30am—2:00pm 3:50pm—5:30pm Friday, January 6

9:35am—10:35am 11:30am—1:00pm Morning Coffee

Free coffee will be available each morning in Lobby D while supplies last. Who said there’s no such thing as a free

lunch?

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If you have a disability and may require accommodation in order to fully participate in the Northern Green Expo, please call Bob Fitch at 651-633-4987 or toll-free 888-886-6652. Some accommodations may require extensive arrangements to put in place. We ask for your cooperation in notifying us as soon as possible of your need for accommodation. While every effort will be

made to meet attendees’ needs, we cannot guarantee the availability of accommodations in response to requests received after December 16, 2011. Photo/Video Consent

Registration and attendance at or participation in the Northern Green Expo constitutes an agreement by the registrant to Expo use and distribution (both now and in the future) of the registrant or attendee’s image or voice in photographs, videotapes, electronic reproductions, and audiotapes of such events/activities.

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8:20 AM - 9:20 AM | 208CD

Diagnosing & Correcting

Nutritional Soil Disorders in

Landscape Plants Carl Rosen

Nutritional disorders in landscape plants can occur due to poor soil physical and chemical properties. This presentation will discuss how to diagnose nutrient disorders in landscape plants from symptom expression, soil analysis, and tissue analysis. Additional topics covered include a discussion on interpretation of soil and tissue sample results. A number of case studies will be presented and approaches that can be taken to correct the problems encountered will be discussed. 8:20 AM - 9:20 AM | 213

Identifying and Troubleshooting

Turf Aftercut Appearance Issues Carl Osterhaus

This seminar will discuss "Aftercut Appearance"…what it is, what affects aftercut appearance, and how to effectively identify causes and work to solve these issues. Aftercut is affected by both the machine and the turf, so both need to to be considered when faced with an aftercut appearance issue. This session will provide the attendee with the tools needed to understand and address these issues.

8:20 AM - 9:20 AM | 212

Irrigation Basics – The

Occasional Repair Jeff Latterell

Topics covered in this session will include: • Identifying controller problems • Identifying solenoid problems • Identifying wiring problems • Pipe repair, poly and pvc; and • Correcting low pressure problems. 8:20 AM - 9:20 AM | 102ABC

Pros and Cons of Ash

Replacement Options Tim Vogel

Vogel will discuss possible ash tree replacement options, including native cultivars and the positive and negative traits of each selection. 8:20 AM - 9:20 AM | 211

Time-Management Techniques

for the Green Industry - Get

More Done in Less Time, and Still

Have a Life Jeffrey Scott

You have more demands on your time than ever before—so how do you get it all done and still have a life? In this seminar you will learn to: • Manage employee interruptions and

outside distractions • Use time-blocking techniques to get

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• Give great customer service without giving away your life

• Avoid getting swallowed up by technology

After this seminar, you will conquer the big time drains, and learn the secret to better time management. For business owners, managers and sales people. 8:20 AM - 9:20 AM | 102DEF

Turfgrass Research Update Brian Horgan & Eric Watkins

University of Minnesota turfgrass science faculty, Brian Horgan and Eric Watkins, will provide updates on the latest research being conducted at the Turfgrass Research, Outreach, and Education (TROE) Center. Topics include: Dollar spot control, screening turfgrass cultivars for acute drought performance, developing native grasses for turf, alternative turfgrass species for home lawns, perennial ryegrass rust research, fine fescue cultivar evaluations for golf course fairways, roadside salt-tolerant turf trials, water conservation and remote sensing, late fall nitrogen fertilizer programs, soil testing for nitrogen recommendations, fertilizer and pesticide runoff, and NTEP data. 8:20 AM - 9:20 AM | 103BCDE

Plants: Finding the COOL Stuff! Lloyd Traven

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9:30 AM - 10:25 AM | Ballroom A

Keynote - Top Performer: A Bold

Approach To Service and Life Carr Hagerman

As this economy continues to affect our lives and each of us has experienced some impact because of these changes and shifts, we have to find new ways to adapt to the challenges. Even in the midst of this ever changing tide of events, there are organizations and individuals that go beyond merely surviving, to thriving. They are the Top Performers, and their approach to service, work and life gives them competitive advantages. The good news is, anyone can learn to become a Top Performer! Carr Hagerman has been a street performer for over 30 years. Starting as a teenager, he’s not only been a successful performer, but has studied street performing for two decades. In his research, Carr discovered some performers who transcend entertainment, scripts and material by making deep and memorable connections with their audiences. Working in chaotic, distracted and often hostile environments, these performers know they will be remembered most when the audience has an unforced, emotional connection with the performer. When we make an emotional connection with those we work with and serve, we discover a powerful source of natural energy and inspiration. Some of the ideas you’ll hear about in his humorous and high energy presentation: • The necessity of a powerful, personal

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12:30 PM - 1:20 PM | 102ABC

Conifers for the Northern

Midwest Mark Van Hoef

We will address four points in this session:

• Why conifers? • What conifers? • Production and development of conifers. • Several favorite and recommended

conifers for this region. 12:30 PM - 1:20 PM | 103BCDE

Carpe Trendum—Plant Trends

and Opportunities To Grab

RIGHT NOW Lloyd Traven

Sparking interest, generating excitement---THAT is what Peace Tree Farm is known for bringing to garden centers. Often, a plant that we don't 'get' generates incredible interest among consumers, usually because we don't see what they are looking for. What is HOT right now, what can you still do for this critical spring? 12:30 PM - 1:20 PM | 212

Irrigation Troubleshooting: 2

Wire Jeff Latterell

Two wire systems require a different approach when troubleshooting. We will review steps and procedures to efficiently identify and diagnose problems along the two wire path.

12:30 PM - 1:20 PM | 102DEF

Most Common Problems

Encountered During Golf Course

Site Visits Tim Moraghan

In this presentation, Moraghan will stress the importance of his “360-degree philosophy” on maintaining a golf course, while discussing the highlights and low lights of what he encounters on dozens of golf courses each year. Moraghan will focus on primary playing features, as well as critical details that can take a superintendent to the next level of advancement in his career. 12:30 PM - 1:20 PM | 208CD

Raingarden Maintenance Curt Coudron, Mike Isensee & Jim Davidson

The Dakota County Soil and Water Conservation District team of urban conservationists will share an overview of their experience maintaining small residential raingardens to larger scale parking lot bioretention cells. Topics include client education, plant management strategies, inlet maintenance and cost examples for maintaining raingardens. 12:30 PM - 1:20 PM | 208AB

Sales Tax Issues and the Green

Industry Scott Nichols

More than ever before, landscape and garden center businesses must manage all costs impacting them, including sales and use taxes. This session will discuss basic sales tax concepts; including understanding the difference between sales tax and use tax, knowing what is taxable and when to collect sales tax from your customers, when to pay use tax on your purchases, internet sales, retailer and contractor related issues, and local sales taxes. During this session, we will


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also examine best practices concerning Minnesota sales and use taxes; including sales tax collection responsibilities, sales tax return filing requirements, use tax accrual requirements, and preparing for and defending a state sales tax audit. 12:30 PM - 1:20 PM | 213

Turf Weed Control: New Products David Gardner

In the past few years, several new herbicidal active ingredients have been released for selective weed control in turfgrass. In addition, many existing herbicides are now part of new and novel combination herbicide products. In this session, we will discuss the potential advantages of these new products as well as usage recommendations. 12:30 PM - 1:20 PM | 211

Winning the Price Wars - How to

Sell Value and Win More Clients

in the New Economy Jeffrey Scott

Contractors can't be successful chasing leads and competing on price. Learn a systematic sales process that will show you how to get in front of qualified prospects, form emotional bonds, create more on-target proposals, and close more sales--without selling on price. You will learn how to: • Get clarity on your ideal prospect, and

what they are really buying • Gain control of the sales process, and

waste less of your time • Shift the conversation away from price • Separate yourself from the low-ballers • Close more sales and close them faster • Earn higher margins through a targeted

process For owners, managers and salespeople who need to grow their sales quickly.

2:40 PM - 4:40 PM | 208CD

Award-Winning Landscapes:

Design Craig Trenary, moderator

Learn from the region's best landscape designers! Hear the latest landscape ideas from members that submitted winning landscape design entries for the 2011 MNLA Landscape Awards Competition. 2:40 PM - 3:30 PM | 103BCDE

Edible Ornamentals,

Combinations, and Landscapes Lloyd Traven

Edibles are the bright spot in our industry right now. Any time growth is occuring, the tendency is to immediately make it into a commodity. How do you stop this? Set yourself apart with finding new uses, marketing tools, designs using both the new and ancient plants, and capitalizing on the powerful desire to take back some control of our lives by growing food. Traven will show new ways to shine and new ways to grow. Take back the landscape! 2:40 PM - 3:30 PM | 102DEF

Golf Course Material Testing

and Construction Norm Hummel

In this session, Hummel will discuss general concepts of greens construction, including methods of construction and testing of materials for construction. Emphasis will be placed on the changing demands of golfers on playability of greens and how mixes can be designed to address them. Common pitfalls in greens construction will be discussed, as will building greens extensions.


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2:40 PM - 3:30 PM | 102ABC

Insecticide Options and

Application Techniques for

Management of Wood Boring

Insects Shawn Bernick

This presentation will discuss management strategies for wood-boring insects that tree care professionals commonly encounter in the Minnesota landscape. To effectively control an insect pest, professionals must be able to choose from a wide variety of products and application techniques. Emphasis will be placed on selecting management strategies that integrate the biology and life cycle of the target pest with treatment timing to ensure optimal performance and client satisfaction. 2:40 PM - 3:30 PM | 208AB

Introduction to Human

Resources - A How-To Guide to

Hiring Employees Lori Ellingson & Patrick McGuiness

Good employees can be the most valuable asset you have. Bad employees can create some of the biggest problems you will ever face. In this session, Lori Ellingson of Amcon Block and attorney Patrick McGuiness will show you how to get your ducks in a row when hiring employees. They will talk about the difference between employees and independent contractors as well as go through the required paperwork that is required when hiring new workers. Don't miss this great opportunity to learn about job postings, interviewing, initial paperwork, training and more!

2:40 PM - 3:30 PM | 213

Small Engine Maintenance,

Testing & Repair Carl Osterhaus

Small engines are still an integral part of the turf equipment industry. They are, however, seeing increased pressure from fuel blending and fuel quality issues, coupled with the continued desire for increased engine life and performance. This session will discuss the testing, maintenance and repair of these small, but important turf equipment engines. The focus is on providing the attendee with information to help them keep these engines running at peak performance, while ensuring the longest possible engine life. 2:40 PM - 3:30 PM | 211

The Referral Advantage - A

Contrarian Approach that will

Grow Your Landscape Business

Faster Jeffrey Scott

In these tough times where competition is everywhere, you need a new approach to growth. Take control of your future with this contrarian approach to referral marketing. Learn how to:

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• Convert your best clients into sales advocates

Scott will debunk the top 4 lies about referrals, and show you why clients are not always your best source of referrals. Learn powerful tools that you can implement immediately. For owners and business developers who are serious about growth.


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2:40 PM - 3:30 PM | 212

Water Conservation and

Efficiency in Irrigation, Part 1 Craig Otto & Tim Malooly

This two-part course explores design concepts, components, and product features that promote efficient operation of landscape irrigation systems. Topics include: SMART irrigation controllers, soil moisture sensors, pressure regulation, and more! Part II of this session will be from 3:40 PM – 4:40

PM.

3:40 PM - 4:40 PM | 102ABC

Bur Oak Blight: A Newly

Recognized Disease on Bur Oak

in Iowa and Minnesota Tom Harrington

A serious, late-season leaf disease on mature bur oak trees located in former savanna sites has been recognized over the last 10 to 15 years in eastern Nebraska, Iowa and Minnesota. Bur oak blight (BOB) can be confused with oak wilt. A leaf spot pathogen, Tubakia dryina, had been associated with BOB, but the causal agent has just been described as a new species, T. iowensis. Diagnosis, geographic distribution, and the disease cycle of BOB will be explained, with possible clues explaining the recent increase in severity of this disease and other diseases that require heavy spring rains for the initiation of epidemics. Experimental and anecdotal reports of successful fungicide treatments will be discussed. 3:40 PM - 4:40 PM | 103BCDE

Design Soils and Planting in

Urban Streetscapes James Urban

This session will inform green industry professionals about the principles to design soils and planting spaces for urban streetscapes. This will include working with the existing soil conditions, designing better planting spaces to accommodate tree requirements for mature growth and the design of planting soils under pavements. 3:40 PM - 4:40 PM | 102DEF

Golf Course Design, Renovation,

and Maintenance, Local Case

Studies Brian Horgan, moderator

This session will consist of a panel of superintendents including Jim Nicol CGCS, Hazeltine National Golf Club and Brandon Schindele, Edina Country Club. Content will include a brief overview of projects undertaken by these courses followed by discussion of specific aspects of the construction process such as selling the project to membership, architecture, removal of existing turf, construction materials, grow-in methods, labor planning, and more!

3:40 PM - 4:40 PM | 208AB

Human Resources - How to

Handle Problem Employees Lori Ellingson & Patrick McGuiness

You have a lot of great people that work at your company. Unfortunately, there always seems to be someone that cannot tow the line and is not a good fit for your company. Join Lori Ellingson of Amcon Block and attorney Patrick McGuiness as they give an overview of methods to manage employee behavior. They will cover employee handbooks, disciplinary procedures and how to limit risks when firing a problem employee.


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3:40 PM - 4:40 PM | 205

How the Government Got in Your

Backyard Jeff Gillman & Eric Heberlig

As members of the Green Industry, we are constantly faced with the task of adhering to rules instated by one or another portion of our government. Sometimes these rules make sense, and sometimes they seem downright silly. In this session, we will discuss how environmental policy came to be, how it affects us, and how we can try to change it for a variety of hot button topics including fertilizers, illegal plants, and genetic engineering. 3:40 PM - 4:40 PM | 211

No Fines Concrete as a Retaining

Wall Backfill Tim Huinker

Learn a new way to build walls when geo grid installation is not possible. Timberwall replacement, property line issues, and saving existing vegetation are all issues when trying to install typical reinforcement for walls. No fines concrete as a backfill allows for the construction of taller gravity walls with less excavation, saving time and money. 3:40 PM - 4:40 PM | 212

Water Conservation and

Efficiency in Irrigation, Part 2 Craig Otto & Tim Malooly

The second part of this two-part series takes a look at the application of efficiency products and includes efficient design concepts such as matched precipitation rates, head to head coverage, and scheduling.


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7:30 AM - 8:20 AM | 102ABC

Compact Woodies for the

Landscape Dave Wanninger

While there are more choices in the world of shrubs than ever before, many shrubs are just too big for the increasingly compact garden spaces that we design and create. Small urban yards and outdoor "rooms" call out for plants of smaller stature. We will be looking at some better options for the smaller garden space. Many are smaller varieties of plants you already know, some are new introductions pretty much unknown to the gardening public, and a few are old friends that deserve a new look. We will also be looking at considerations like plant vigor, disease and insect resistance, and proper growing conditions. 7:30 AM - 10:30 AM | 102DEF

Golf: Managing Your Manager,

Committee and Boards Bernard Cronin

Participants will learn to manage a variety of work relationships involving people they report to and key interpersonal skills to apply in accomplishing the organization’s overall business objectives. They will return with strategies to apply in developing a cohesive personal environment between the people who report to them and the people to whom they report. The participant will be able to communicate and demonstrate to the people who report to them the principle of inter-dependence.

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | 208CD

Award-Winning Landscapes:

Installation & Management Doug Geesaman, moderator

This is the second of two sessions showcasing the MNLA 2011 Landscape Award winners. This session will feature landscape installation and management winning entries. 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | 102ABC

Detective Dendro: The Early

Years Guy Meilleur

Diagnosis starts with gathering data. Then the data is analyzed, and finally conclusions are drawn. With your help, we’ll inspect images of tree conditions from past Detective Dendro articles, diagnose the conditions, describe management options, and predict tree performance based on sound arboricultural practices. 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | 103BCDE

Horticultural Discoveries

in the Czech Republic Neil Anderson

Interested in what new things the industry, landscapers, and gardeners are doing in a country across the pond? Bask in the knowledge that comes from spending one year in the Czech Republic, with visits to Austria, Germany, France, Italy, Slovakia and Greece! Come and learn about historic sustainable food production systems; visit spectacular gardens of royalty, composers, and conquerors to see different cultivars; learn about savvy eastern European marketing techniques; discover some unusual


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timing of crops…all of which can get you excited to change approaches in the new year! 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | 208AB

Inventory is Your Retail Heart…

Is It Healthy? Paul Erickson

Inventory is the heart of your business. How healthy is your heart? While we all think we are familiar with the basics of inventory management, do we see all of the connections between SKUs and financial analysis? Starting with the basics, Erickson will share alternative concepts, techniques, and formulas to improve inventory turnover, cash flow, revenue growth and gross margin. The presentation teaches from experience – not theory. Learn specific techniques to control your inventory, increase your margins, improve your stock sell-through and start making more money now. 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | 211

Stormwater Management:

Reclamation & Re-Use - Target

Field Case Study Todd Gleason

Learn how (and why) the Minnesota Twins are saving approximately 2 million gallons of municipal water per year. With hundreds of articles written about the rainwater reuse system and points toward LEED certification, this sustainability solution has truly been a homerun. Pentair championed the idea and designed and developed the system - and is happy to share the process and learnings.

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | 213

The 10 Largest Mistakes When

Building a Sports Field Zac Reicher

Simple, but easily avoidable mistakes in construction can lead to long-term management heartaches, if not complete failure of a sports field. A discussion recognizing the most common mistakes, how to avoid them, and what to do if it's too late to avoid them. 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | 212

Wire Locating/Tracking, Part 1 Jeff Latterell

This session will review how to operate wire locating equipment. Locating equipment can help identify:

• Wire path location • Location of valves; and • Location of ground faults. Part II of this session will be from 9:40 AM –

10:30 AM.

9:40 AM - 10:30 AM | 211

Back to the Basics: Asphalt &

Concrete David Howrey

This session will cover the basics on maintaining your current asphalt and concrete paths. Information on how and why your paths fail and tricks the contractors use to keep your paths serviceable.


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9:40 AM - 10:30 AM | 213

Getting the Most Bang For Your

Buck in Sports Turf Maintenance

Practices Zac Reicher

Increased use + increased expectations - declining budgets is not the equation for athletic field success, but it is today's reality. This is a discussion on where to prioritize labor and purchases to maximize performance. 9:40 AM - 10:30 AM | 208AB

Nine Things for Retailers to Start

Doing to Survive and Thrive

During the Recession Paul Erickson

What do all retailers need to start acting upon immediately to survive and thrive in this economic slow down? This presentation examines numerous important good habits and bad habits retailers need to identify. The topics cover everything from training and motivating your sales staff, enhancing your customer relationships, negotiating with your vendors, improving cash flow, stopping overbuying, increasing gross profit dollars and using an effective open-to-buy system. The presentation teaches from experience – not theory. Learn specific techniques to enhance the customer experience in your store, lead and motivate your staff, increase your operating margins and improve your stock sell though. Start making more money now!

9:40 AM - 10:30 AM | 103BCDE

Perennial Plant Communities

"The Know Maintenace

Approach" Roy Diblick

Diblick's thoughtful way to design perennial plantings welcomes fresh contemporary styles and plant diversity integrated with responsible maintenance concerns. Using a selection of regionally dependable perennials, endless natural plant patterns can be constructed, each relating to time and cost to maintain. 9:40 AM - 10:30 AM | 208CD

Spring Flowering Shrubs Dave Wanninger

Just like the bloom progression in a well-planned perennnial garden, you can have a succession of continuous blooming shrubs from late March (maybe not every March in Minnesota...) into summer. We will go through a spring's worth of some of Wanninger’s favorite shrubs for spring blooms. However, because pretty flowers are just a part of what makes for a good plant, we will also pay attention to all season appeal, disease and insect resistance, and strong growing plants adapted to our climate. 9:40 AM - 10:30 AM | 102ABC

Tree Planting Installation

Techniques Dave Kleinhuizen & Dennis Ullom

Let’s take a look at the good, the bad, and the just plain ugly of commonly used planting techniques in our industry today.What does research and common sense tell us is right? If the tree could talk, what would it say? We will look at tree planting from grower and installer perspectives. We will discuss a brief overview of tree planting depths. Key questions include:


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• What should "The Package" look like and how should the tree be planted relative to its "Package?”

• What to do with the "Package" once the tree is in the ground?

• What function does the "Package" play in tree establishment?

9:40 AM - 10:30 AM | 212

Wire Locating/Tracking, Part 2 Jeff Latterell

This session will discuss the uses of wire troubleshooting equipment:

• Multimeters • Ammeters; and • Solenoid and valve testing devices. 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM | 205

Crew Leader Idea Exchange Patrick Warden

The Landscape Professional Advancement Committee will again host the popular crew leader idea exchange. The purpose of this seminar is to bring together a cross section of industry groups to discuss issues they encounter in the field. Questions and topics up for discussion will include: Time management, tool selection, crew size and make-up, weather issues, client interaction, equipment maintenance, safety, and Gopher State One Call. Come prepared to share your challenges, successes, and failures, as well as learn from your industry colleagues. This is a MUST attend session for crew leaders – attendees will be overwhelmed with ideas to implement in their own operations! All are welcome—landscape and hardscape contractors, landscape management, arborists and irrigation contractors. 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM | 102ABC

Detective Dendro Strikes Again Guy Meilleur

Diagnosis of tree conditions can be complicated, but with your help, Dendro can solve the toughest cases. This presentation covers eleven articles, involving modern-day challenges such as risk management and appraisal. Join in with your theories and solutions--together we'll figure out what makes trees tick, and tree owners satisfied. 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM | 208AB

Garden Center Panel Craig Corby, Dean Engelmann & Dale

Konetschka, Kris Ballou, moderator

Back by popular demand, join us at the Garden Center Panel. Running a highly seasonal business like a retail garden center is never easy, but even less so with increasing costs and reduced customer traffic as many have experienced this year. How do we market ourselves to customers most effectively? This session will feature a panel of three owners/managers of independent garden centers located in Minnesota. We invite you to bring your ideas and questions to this facilitated discussion to find real life answers to real life challenges. 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM | 211

Selling Design with Your Build:

How is a Designed-in Landscape

Different from an Added-on

Landscape? Sarah Nettleton

So often in home design, landscape is an afterthought covering up what could have been a design opportunity. Why is this disconnected thinking so often the reality? This disconnect happens on many levels, and we as designers can be part of the solution. Sarah Nettleton will identify opportunities beyond the standard “dress up” landscape approach and show these design solutions in her work. Her approach combines site and


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building design in a common sense way of thinking. 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM | 102DEF

Uncovering the Architectural

History of Your Golf Course Anthony Pioppi

A guide to the methods and sources you need to find and resurrect the narrative of your layout. The result can often lead to an increased understanding and appreciation of the course by the membership. 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM | 212

Weather Based Irrigation

Controls, Part 1 Craig Otto & Tim Malooly

There are many weather based irrigation control technologies available within the landscape irrigation industry. This two-part course examines the benefits and application of different weather based irrigation controls. This class will also discuss methods for fitting schedules into common watering restrictions. Part II of this session will be from 3:00 PM – 3:50

PM.

2:00 PM - 2:50 PM | 208CD

Wetland Protection

and Mitigation Steve Lawler

We will discuss the characteristics of wetlands and the value they provide in the environment. Regulatory oversight of activities in wetlands is a reality today. How such regulations came to be and how projects move through these processes will also be discussed. This will include an explanation of such wetland terms as avoidance, minimization, creation, restoration, and banking. Allowance for questions will be a priority.

2:00 PM - 3:50 PM | 213

Aquatics Recertification

(Category F) Dick Osgood & John Barten

Part 1 (Managing Aquatic Pests) - Identification of pests and pest problems will include the following information: • Determining the magnitude of the

problem • Determining the source of the problem • Developing a management strategy to

address the problem • Implementing the control strategy • Dose determination; and • Application timing.

Part 2 (Lake and Pond Weed Management): Weeds and weed problems in lakes and ponds will be explained as well as approaches for managing nuisance weeds. The session will clarify the difference between lakes and ponds, review the different types of weeds and weed problems, explain the causes of weed problems and describe management approaches. 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM | 103BCDE

Coming to Know the Plants Roy Diblick

We will look at some individual perennial plants, discussing their growth habit, structure and textural characteristics relating to their placement in the garden. We will discuss the developing partnership between the gardener, the plants and nature, creating more thoughtful gardens. 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM | 209AB

Garden Center Speed

Networking Van Cooley, moderator


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Are you tired of networking sessions where people just hang out in circles with others they already know; making it difficult to break in and meet new people? If so, this seminar is perfect for you. The relaxed, yet fast-paced format of speed networking ensures you will have good conversations AND meet a lot of new people. Remember, you are only one key relationship away from learning something important or taking a step forward in your career. Make that connection at the garden center speed networking session. There are several key benefits to speed networking: • It is a great way to meet strangers with

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• Expand your contact network exponentially – even if your direct contact isn’t someone with which you’ll do business, maybe their friends, family or colleagues are.

• Being able to succinctly describe your interests and profession is a skill that will help you network in the future.

3:00 PM - 3:50 PM | 102DEF

Golf Course: Managing Turf

in Shade John Stier

Based on 20 years of shade research, Dr. Stier will cover causes for turf decline in shade, plus traditional and new management strategies for maintaining the best grass possible. Topics include understanding and measuring light, liquid versus granular fertilizers, alternative disease management, irrigation, and best grasses.

3:00 PM - 3:50 PM | 208CD

Maintaining Natives Justin Sykora

This session will cover the basics of maintaining your native area from first year mowing to long term management plans. Sykora will also cover different methods of Integrated Plant Management (IPM). 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM | 102ABC

Value-Added BioProducts for

the Nursery and Landscape

Industry Alan Doering

This session will focus on new and existing product opportunities that are being developed to utilize in the nursery and landscape industry. As we focus on bio-based or renewable materials, this session will showcase some new products entering the marketplace as well as new products being developed; often times the opportunities are in our backyard! Products ranging from soil amendments, erosion control, and fertilizer developments to indirect benefits such as addressing the thermal needs of greenhouses will be discussed. Also explored will be the opportunities for bio-based products in the nursery and landscape industry. 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM | 212

Weather Based Irrigation

Controls, Part 2 Craig Otto & Tim Malooly

There are many weather based irrigation control technologies available within the landscape irrigation industry. This two-part course examines the benefits and application of different weather based irrigation controls. This class will also discuss methods for fitting schedules into common watering restrictions.


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7:30 AM - 8:35 AM | 213

Waitea Gone Wild – Research of

Early Summer 2011 in Chicago

and Experiences Since 2006 Derek Settle

Waitea patch is a common disease of Poa annua on greens in Chicago. May to June, the fungus infects Poa annua leaf sheaths and causes narrow bright yellow ring symptoms. Rings are about 4 to 12 inches in diameter. Dr. Randy Kane noticed it on a green about 1985 with Dave Ward in Flossmoor. Until 2006 it was called Rhizoctonia zeae in Chicago. On the west coast, Waitea was being confused with Rhizoctonia cerealis or yellow patch. In 2005 Japanese scientists renamed this Rhizoctonia disease. Today it is called brown ring patch or Waitea patch. Confusion exists on how to control this disease. Settle will discuss recent research results in this session. 7:30 AM - 9:30 AM | 208CD

New Plant Forum Debbie Lonnee, moderator

This exciting session has returned to the 2012 Northern Green Expo for those of you who are all about the plants! The New Plant Forum is a 2-hour, information packed session highlighting new plants for our industry – including herbaceous perennials and annuals, as well as trees, shrubs and evergreens. The best of the newest will be presented by MNLA members and affiliated education institution breeders who are on top of the newest plants on the market! Come prepared to hear all about cutting edge new plants that you can use in your business.

7:30 AM - 10:30 AM | 211

Hands-On and In-Depth Training

to Become an MNLA Certified

Professional, Part 1 MNLA Certification Committee

This training will enhance your overall professional knowledge and improve your readiness to take the MNLA Certification Exam. Plant Identification will be taught by the Plant ID Expert, Tim Vogel of Bailey Nurseries, using in-depth lectures, hands-on actual ID, and handouts. A practice exam will be given to familiarize the candidate with the exam format and actual exam questions. Specialization topics will be presented and questions answered in-depth by additional Certification Experts including: Laurie Robinson, Bailey Nurseries; Dr. Terry Ferriss, UWRF; Ed Plaster, DCTC; Mark Armstead, Linders Garden Center; and Dr. Bert Swanson, Swanson's Nursery Consulting, Inc. Be prepared to become a Certified Professional. It will be very helpful for you to have read the MNLA Certification Manual prior to attending this session to facilitate your learning and to bring forth any questions you might have. Plant material samples will be available throughout the Expo. Study some of these samples each day prior to the actual training. Note: Attendees need to attend both part 1 and part 2 of this training in order to take the practice exam. Part II of this session will be from 1:00 PM – 3:30

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Developing a Sustainable Golf

Course Business Model Tom Mead

Economic tough times now require golf facilities, regardless of type and annual budget, to develop new business models based on sustainable values, designs, standards and practices, with the goal of establishing short and long-term financial viability. This discussion will focus on the key elements of a sustainable golf course business model and transition strategies. 8:35 AM - 9:30 AM | 208AB

Don't Be Scared - Web Tools Can

Be Your Best Friend! Brad Tabke

Small business owners and managers need as much help as they can get to streamline processes and make their businesses run better. Come learn about different online web applications that can help you automate processes, build business and satisfy clients. 10:35 AM - 11:30 AM | 208CD

Evolving Echinacea - A Look at

Recent Developments Within

this Common Perennial Mike Heger

In recent years, our industry has witnessed the introduction of numerous cultivar selections within the perennial genus Echinacea. This presentation will highlight some of the more prominent hybridizing programs and the selections they have introduced. In addition, some of the best performing introductions to date for our region will be noted along with the reason that they stand out among the pack. You will come away from this presentation with additional information that will aid you in

making appropriate selections for sale to your customers or for use in the landscape. 10:35 AM - 11:30 AM | 213

Should Henry Be Out There? John Stier

Golf course managers increasingly struggle with the need to open earlier in the spring and stay open later in the winter. Learn what the impacts of early and late season play mean for your golf course turf and budget. 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | 205

Reducing Runoff Roundtables Joe Schaffer, moderator

In this day and age there are many concepts that people consider implementing to benefit the environment. One that has huge potential for significant impact on the waters of our state and country is responsible runoff management. There are many practices emerging which help to properly manage excess water created by altering landscapes – water which ultimately ends up in our lakes and rivers. Reducing this runoff and properly treating the contaminants it contains is one sure way to preserve lakes and rivers and the life they support. Come participate in the Sustainable Environment Committee’s Reducing Runoff Roundtable discussions to share ideas and learn about why and how you can add these important practices to your company’s offerings. 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | 208AB

In-Depth: Natural Stone Scott Reynolds

This seminar will focus on the details and techniques of natural stone walls, paths, walkways and patio construction including: Time-saving techniques, waste reduction, aesthetics and pricing. Volunteers will be asked to construct a small stone wall and


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Hands-On and In-Depth Training

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This training will enhance your overall professional knowledge and improve your readiness to take the MNLA Certification Exam. It will be very helpful for you to have read the MNLA Certification Manual prior to attending this session to facilitate your learning and to bring forth any questions you might have. Plant material samples will be available throughout the Expo. Study some of these samples each day prior to the actual training. Note: Attendees need to attend both part 1 and part 2 of this training in order to take the practice exam.


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7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | 103BCDE

MDA General Session – Mock

Inspection, Regulations, EAB

Update Lisa Berg, Kay Sargent & Mark Abrahamson

Part 1 (MDA Inspections & Regulations): This presentation will discuss pesticide use inspections, when and how they are conducted and what applicators can do to make sure they are in compliance with the law. Berg will explain what to expect when inspected and common mistakes that she has seen. Berg has many years of experience conducting pesticide use inspections in turf and ornamental industries. Berg and Kay Sargent will explain what applicators can do to prevent these mistakes and stay in compliance with pesticide laws. Part 2 (EAB Update): The latest information for Minnesota on where EAB is known to occur, the impacts it is having on those areas and the steps being taken to mitigate those impacts. 8:40 AM - 9:35 AM | 103BCDE

Greenhouse: Plant Growth

Regulators for Northern

Growers . . . What Compounds

Work Best for Which Plants? John Erwin

Erwin will talk about what growth regulators are available for growers to use in ornamental production. He will also talk about which compounds work best on which crops. In some cases, mixes of two different compounds works best; he will talk about what combinations are best for different

crops. He will also discuss how compounds, or tank mixes, can change during different times of the year. Lastly, Erwin will talk about how application techniques for height control can differ at different times of the year for different crops. 8:40 AM - 9:35 AM | 102ABC

Nursery/Arborist: Pest

Management Application

Techniques for the Tree Care

Professional Shawn Bernick

Tree care practitioners have multiple application methods to select from when treating for insects and diseases. This presentation will discuss different systemic application techniques including tree injection, soil application and basal systemic bark sprays. Included will be an overview of the proper use of these techniques, pros and cons, and operational considerations for each. 8:40 AM - 9:35 AM | 102DEF

Turf/Golf: Pesticides, Perception

and Society John Stier

If you've been caught in the crossfire regarding pesticide use at your facility and left wondering how to respond, this seminar is for you. A lively, thought-provoking set of perspectives of pesticide impacts in our society and what they really mean to our health and environment compared to other products used daily.

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10:35 AM - 11:30 AM | 103BCDE

Greenhouse: Best New Rotations

for Different Pest and Disease

Problems in Ornamental

Production John Erwin

Erwin will go over the most effective compounds for control of each pest and disease. He will also discuss several tank mix combinations that are now being used. Some of those tank mixes include fertilizer and/or growth regulators. Also, Erwin will talk about new strategies to apply these compounds and/or beneficials to control pests. Recommendations emphasize using less pesticide and labor to reduce your costs and decrease environmental impacts. 10:35 AM - 11:30 AM | 102ABC

Nursery/Arborist: Diseases of

Deciduous and Conifer Trees Dimitre Mollov, Rock Kelly & Eric Nordlie

The presenters will identify key diseases of deciduous and conifer trees in nursery production and urban landscape to address the interests of arborists, city foresters, and growers. The seminar will cover the biology of the selected pathogens and the cultural and chemical control of the diseases they cause. 10:35 AM - 11:30 AM | 102DEF

Turf/Golf: Testing Alternatives to

Fungicides For Disease Control

on Golf Fairways Derek Settle

Dollar spot (Sclerotinia homoeocarpa) is our most persistent fungal disease that negatively affects turf. In the upper Midwest the predominant golf surfaces in play are highly susceptible turf species (e.g., creeping bentgrass or Agrostis stolonifera and annual bluegrass or Poa annua var. reptans). In

Chicago, dollar spot requires more input than any other turf pest. Fungicide cost is high for fairways since they represent the largest acreage in play. A growing interest is emerging in fungicide alternatives. Two reasons are often cited: Budgetary constraints and environmental stewardship. Still, surface blemishes are not easily tolerated by golfers who will often compare Chicago courses based on ball roll characteristics.

Alternative products to control dollar spot exist, but their efficacy remains largely unknown in many environments including Chicago (cool and humid). Products Rhapsody (Bacillus subtilis QST 713) and Ecoguard (Bacillus licheniformis SB3086) are biorationals. Another, DewCure (oxinane-methyloxirane) interrupts dew formation shortening leaf wetness duration. Products that spoon-feed nitrogen may also help since dollar spot increases with low N.

Our objective? To find a product without negative plant health effects that can suppress dollar spot on golf fairways. Our goal was to reduce fungicide input without sacrificing necessary quality (injury ≤ 5%). Results will be presented in this session.

1:00 PM - 1:45 PM | 103BCDE

Personal Protective Equipment

and Pesticides Stacey Enders

The use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) significantly reduces exposure to pesticides through the lungs, eyes and skin. However, selection of PPE can often be challenging. While pesticide labels make it simple to select gloves, information regarding other PPE such as coveralls can be ambiguous. This session will cover the selection and use of PPE used with pesticides, including respirators, eyewear, gloves and coveralls.


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1:50 PM - 2:30 PM | 103BCDE

Personal Protective Equipment -

Gloves Michelle Grabowski

Gloves are a critical piece of personal protective equipment. Up to 97% of pesticide exposure occurs through the skin. Learn how to choose gloves of the appropriate material to protect yourself. Learn proper glove use and maintenance. 2:35 PM - 3:35 PM | 102ABC

Nursery/Arborist/Greenhouse:

Herbicide Equipment Calibration

and Application Techniques Dale Sutherland

This session will include a discussion on herbicide application equipment calibration and various application techniques. 2:35 PM - 3:35 PM | 102DEF

Turf/Golf: Effective Application

of Fertilizer and Plant

Protectants Luke Dant

This session with provide attendees fertilizer and plant-protectant application tips and techniques to maximize product performance. Topics will include sprayer calibration, nozzle selection, improving sprayer performance, and avoiding common application pitfalls. The application of fertilizer including rotary and drop spreader calibration, and choosing the best fertilizers to maximize plant-protectant performance will also be discussed.

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Lisa Berg Minnesota Department of Agriculture

Lisa Berg is a metro area agricultural chemical inspector with the Minnesota Department of Agriculture. She has 11

years of experience inspecting, investigating, and providing information/education to regulated clientele, regarding the handling/use, storage, distribution and manufacturing of pesticides and fertilizers under state and federal pesticide law. She holds a B.S. from the University of Minnesota.

Shawn Bernick Rainbow Treecare Scientific Advancements

Over the past 11 years, Bernick has partnered with numerous university and private sector scientists to conduct and

direct research trials across the United States on a variety of insect, disease, and abiotic problems that affect trees and shrubs. He is currently the vice president of R/D and Technical Support at Rainbow Treecare Scientific Advancements, which develops and distributes plant health care products to the tree care industry across the United States.

Very active within the industry, Bernick is currently finishing his two-year term as president of the Minnesota Turf and Grounds Foundation (MTGF) and represents the Minnesota Society of Arboriculture on the MTGF Board of Directors. Bernick has written both peer reviewed research articles and numerous trade articles for ArborAge, TCIA, and other trade journals. He has made numerous tree health care presentations over his career at various local, regional, and national tree care conferences and industry events. He holds a B.S. in horticulture and agricultural education from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and an M.S. in plant pathology from the University of Minnesota.

Van Cooley Malmborg's, Inc.

Van Cooley is manager of Malmborg's Garden Center. He has been a member of the MNLA Garden Center Committee for many years. He attended North

Hennepin Community College and graduated with a degree in business in 1978. He also attended North Hennepin Vocational College in the landscape program from 1978 to 1980. He began his career in the industry in the mid-1980's at Malmborg's with a brief period as a sales representative for Foster's Garden Supplies.

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Mark Abrahamson Minnesota Department of Agriculture

Mark Abrahamson has been an entomologist at the Minnesota Department of Agriculture since 1999, working on a variety of projects addressing issues with native and exotic insect pests - including emerald ash borer.

Neil Anderson University of Minnesota

Dr. Neil Anderson is a floriculture breeder/geneticist (associate professor) who directs the herbaceous perennial breeding program at the University of Minnesota. Anderson also has

experience in the commercial flower seed industry as a flower breeder and new crop specialist. He directs the herbaceous perennial winter hardinesss trials (Minnesota Tough & Terrific™ program). His areas of expertise include new crop development, winter hardiness, reproductive biology, interspecific crossing, and preventing invasiveness. He recently (2010-2011) returned from a 1-year Fulbright sabbatical leave in the Czech Republic.

His research program is focused on winter hardiness and invasiveness of herbaceous perennials.

John Barten Three Rivers Parks District

John Barten received a B.A. in biology and chemistry, and an M.A. in aquatic biology from St. Cloud State University.

He worked as a limnologist both in Waseca, Minnesota, where he developed and implemented restoration programs for two lakes in the city; a major feature of the restoration program was the management of a 52-acre wetland treatment system designed to remove nutrients from stormwater runoff and for Dakota County Soil and Water Conservation District where he worked with municipalities to mitigate the impacts of development on aquatic resources, and assisting municipalities and watershed management organizations with water quality management planning.

He was then the water resources manager for Three Rivers Park District where he worked to mitigate the impacts of development on the quality of lakes in the park system. He completed extensive research on the quality of runoff water from residential areas, lawns and golf courses, and on urban soil compaction mitigation. Barten currently serves as the director of natural resources management for Three Rivers Park District.

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Craig Corby Linders

Craig Corby, originally from Melbourne, Australia, has worked in the garden center industry all his life, both in Australia and in the USA, with exception of time traveling in Australia early in his career. He has been with Linders for the past 13 years, spending three years in the flower mart division before becoming the general manager of Linders Garden Center. His role includes all tasks involved in the day-to-day operations of the garden center including purchasing, promotions, marketing and community relations. He loves the day to day challenges in a retail business environment and looks forward to the future challenges in this current economic environment.

Curt Coudron Dakota County Soil and Water Conservation District

Curt Coudron serves as resource conservationist at the Dakota County Soil and Water Conservation District.

Coudron works directly with Dakota County landowners, engineers, developers, cities, and townships to provide technical assistance for conservation projects such as shoreline restorations and stabilizations, native habitat restoration projects, raingarden installations, and various other practices that protect water quality and other natural resources in Dakota County. He has worked in both the private and public sectors to address the many stormwater issues that come with population growth and development pressure. Coudron has extensive experience working with native plants and has planned and completed conservation projects ranging from backyard raingardens to large-scale prairie restorations.

Bernard Cronin Sandler Training Institute

Bernie Cronin, president of Sandler Training Institute, brings over 30 years of direct sales and sales management experience. The combination of his real-

life problem-solving experiences with his communication skills enables him to provide an experienced, hands-on message to all audiences concerned about the problems of sales, sales management, hiring and client development.

During his career in the investment banking industry, import-export business, consulting business, communications consulting services, and sales consulting and training field, Cronin has worked with a variety of companies and industries whose goals were to increase profitable revenue and client development through the implementation of personal and organizational gradual, incremental, behavioral changes.

He is a graduate of the University of Connecticut School of Business and attended Harvard University's Extension School where he completed graduate courses in microcomputers and information technologies, business, and communications.

Luke Dant Syngenta Crop Protection

Luke Dant received his masters and undergraduate degrees at Iowa State University specializing in turfgrass management. In August 2005, he was

hired by Syngenta to work with golf course superintendents in the Midwest to evaluate spraying practices and identify how these practices could be improved to increase plant-protectant efficacy. He has worked for Syngenta in their customer technical support group, and in the upper Midwest as a territory manager in their turf and ornamental division. He currently lives in South Carolina and conducts turf and ornamental research for Syngenta in the southeast United States.

Jim Davidson Dakota County Soil and Water Conservation District

Jim Davidson is a certified professional in stormwater quality with a degree in civil engineering technology and over

25 years of experience. He has worked in both the private and public sectors and has an extensive background in design, construction, regulatory review and water resource conservation.

Currently, he is the senior urban conservationist at the Dakota County Soil and Water Conservation District where he promotes low impact development strategies and applies his stormwater management expertise for the protection of soil and water resources.

Roy Diblick Northwind Perennial Farm

Roy Diblick is co-owner of Northwind Perennial Farm located in Burlington, Wisc. He has been growing traditional and native perennials since 1978. His garden designs emphasize plant relationships to maintenance strategies and costs. Diblick’s recent work includes the Louis Sullivan Arch Garden for the modern wing at the Art Institute of Chicago and the lakeside perennial plantings for the new Oceanarium at the Shedd Aquarium. He has written a book called "Small Perennial Garden" The Know Maintenance Approach.

Alan Doering Agricultural Utilization Research Institute (AURI)

Alan Doering began his tenure as a senior associate scientist for the Agricultural Utilization Research

Institute (AURI) over 11 years ago. In this position, he manages client projects and the co-products pilot lab, providing clients with product development or identifying value added uses for agricultural residues and co-products,

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collecting and reporting on data related to applied research, and presenting AURI’s project initiatives at industry conferences and tours.

Doering’s extensive experience focuses on facilitating technology transfer and applied research for value-added co-products and commodity side-streams to clients. Research consists of testing and cultivating products utilizing crop residues, food processing waste, biomass and more. His research at AURI has led to the awarding of several client patents, as well as to collecting leading-edge information on energy values of Minnesota-grown agricultural projects.

Prior to joining AURI, Doering was affiliated with the Dekalb Genetics Corporation and Farmland Industries Inc., working as a research technician on activities that included genetic crossing and field plot research.

He received a B.S. degree in agricultural extension from South Dakota State University.

Lori Ellingson Amcon Block & Precast, Inc.

Lori Ellingson has been working in the payroll and human resources field for 22 years in many different manufacturing settings, both union and non-union. She currently works for Amcon Block & Precast, Inc. in their human resources area.

Stacey Enders Gempler's

Stacey Enders is a technical product support specialist with Gempler’s. He has more than five years of experience

answering customer questions about personal protective equipment (PPE) and other product, compliance and regulatory information. Gempler’s is a supplier of outdoor work supplies including safety, workwear, footwear, horticulture, pest management, and shop/tire supplies.

Dean Engelmann Tangletown Gardens LLC

Dean Engelmann grew up on a farm in Plato, Minn. and then attended the University of Minnesota where he studied horticulture. He worked in

several segments of the horticulture industry including wholesale production, sales, and retail. He and his business partner, Scott Endres, started Tangletown Gardens in 2003. The garden center features countless perennial varieties, an incredible annual and heirloom vegetable collection, and unusual woody shrubs, trees, and aquatic plants. The majority of this plant material is grown in their greenhouses in Plato about 45 minutes west of Minneapolis. Three years ago, they expanded their operation and began growing herbs and vegetables at the farm. They sell the produce at the store, and now offer farm fresh CSA shares, which is an opportunity to receive weekly deliveries of Tangletown's sustainably grown vegetables. Tangletown

Gardens also offers landscape design, implementation, and maintenance services. In May 2011, Engelmann and his business partner opened Tangletown’s Wise Acre Eatery in Minneapolis. They grow all the herbs and vegetables, and raise all of the meat served at the restaurant.

Paul Erickson RMSA Retail Solutions

Paul Erickson presently serves as senior vice-president of client services of RMSA. Based out of Minneapolis, he has served retail clients throughout the

United States, Canada and the Caribbean. His passion for client service and for preparing independent retailers to excel in the area of inventory productivity and control has been central to both his personal success and that of the RMSA client base. Erickson is widely recognized for his talents as a retail educator and has been featured in Fortune Magazine and on the CBS Evening News.

He previously served as Vice President for CAM Commerce Solutions Inc., the largest supplier of microcomputer-based inventory management and point-of-sale solutions for small-to-medium size retailers. Prior to joining CAM Commerce Solutions, Erickson founded Access Retail Management Inc., a company offering merchandise forecasting and cash flow management for independent retailers.

Erickson received a B.S. in marketing from the University of Wisconsin and has completed a number of graduate level courses in data analysis and statistical theory and probability.

John Erwin University of Minnesota

Erwin is an associate professor of horticultural science at the University of Minnesota where he is the greenhouse extension specialist and conducts

research in floriculture physiology. He specializes in how the environment affects plant growth and chemical growth regulation.

David Gardner The Ohio State University

David Gardner is an associate professor of turfgrass science at The Ohio State University. His research interests are in the areas of pesticide/nutrient fate and

shade stress physiology. He also conducts a large number of herbicide trials each year. Dr. Gardner teaches undergraduate courses in the areas of turfgrass management, statistics, and landscape horticulture.

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Doug Geesaman Otten Brothers Nursery & Landscaping, Inc.

Doug Geesaman has been in the nursery and landscape business for 38 years. His understanding of the industry

comes from his experence as a foreman, a grower, seasonal garden center sales, an operations manager, a buyer, a designer, and an owner. He holds an A.A.S. degree in horticultural science and is a MNLA Certified Nursery & Landscape Professional. He is also active on the Landscape Professional Advancement and Landscape Award Committees.

Jeff Gillman University of Minnesota

Jeff Gillman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Horticultural Science at the University of Minnesota. He works with nursery and landscape plant issues

and is the author of five books.

Todd Gleason Pentair

Todd Gleason is corporate vice president of strategy and marketing for Minneapolis-based Pentair, a $3 billion global industrial company with leading

positions in water and technical products. In this role he is responsible for all strategic growth initiatives and marketing programs across the organization.

Prior to Pentair, Gleason was director of investor relations for American Standard (currently Ingersoll Rand). He previously served as the chief financial officer for Honeywell’s Process Solutions business unit. Earlier, Gleason held a series of business leadership roles at Honeywell International Inc. and its predecessor AlliedSignal Inc.

Gleason received a master’s degree in management from Carnegie Mellon University and a bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University. He serves on the boards of Faradyne Motors (a joint venture between Pentair and ITT, Corp) and Carnegie Mellon’s Alumni Association.

In 2010, he was awarded the Pentair Business Innovation Award for his efforts leading the water reuse sustainability efforts at Target Field – home of the Minnesota Twins. The project has been the subject of hundreds of news articles and Pentair and the Minnesota Twins have received numerous business and community awards as a result.

Michelle Grabowski University of Minnesota Extension

Michelle Grabowski has been working as an extension educator with the University of Minnesota Extension since 2006. She studied plant pathology at Michigan State

University and North Carolina State University. Her work focuses on common diseases of horticultural crops in Minnesota. She works with home gardeners, commercial fruit and vegetable growers, lawn and landscape professionals, arborists, and other members of the green industry. She shares information through online publications, hands-on workshops, classes, and other educational programs. She focuses on identification and management of current and emerging plant disease problems.

Carr Hagerman Ontend Creative Partners

Carr Hagerman has been motivating sales and service professionals globally for the past 15 years. Beginning with the rollout of the wildly popular Fish! video,

then to Top Performer, he has developed an approach that is remarkably fresh, novel, and full of utility. He energizes and moves his audiences to action with an engaging message and approach that is both simple, instantly accessible, and always entertaining

Hagerman spent nearly 30 years as a professional street performer, beginning when he was only 14 years old working at the Renaissance Festival outside Minneapolis. This work led him to travel as a performer where he gained practical experience in the art of collaboration and connection.

In the later years of his performing career, he started to study great street performers, observing what techniques and tools they used to gain focus, how they kept the audience engaged and creatively dealt with hecklers. He learned first-hand why some performers were making thousands of dollars each day, while others went home with only pennies to show for their work. He discovered that it all came down to how they engaged the audience, invited participation and how these things ultimately led to energizing results. He refers to those performers as “radically engaged” Top Performers. Carr demonstrates how any business owner or organizational leader can apply the actions of the Top Performer to their own operation, and improve customer service results and employee retention.

Provocative, engaging and insightful, his current and past clients include Beyer Dynamic, Home Depot, Best Buy, Starbucks, American Express, Mont-Blanc, Purina Mills, Hilton Hotels, Apple Computer, Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, Wells-Fargo, Paramount Studios and many more.

Tom Harrington Iowa State University

Tom Harrington has conducted research on tree diseases around the world for 35 years, specializing in fungi associated with insects, such as the species that cause oak wilt, Dutch elm disease and laurel wilt. He obtained degrees in plant pathology from Colorado State University, Washington State University and University of California at Berkeley. He taught forest pathology at the University of New Hampshire for 8 years and then joined Iowa State University in 1991. His primary teaching responsibility at ISU is a course on forest insect and disease ecology.

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Eric Heberlig University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Eric Heberlig (Ph.D., Ohio State University) is associate professor of political science at the University of

North Carolina Charlotte. His research focuses on elections, Congress, and interest groups. He is co-author of How Government Got in Your Backyard.

Mike Heger

Ambergate Gardens

Mike Heger, along with his wife, Jean, owns Ambergate Gardens located near Chaska, Minn. Though a foreign

language major in college, his love of the outdoors brought him into 15+ years of employment with the University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. Ambergate Gardens was started in 1985 while he was still employed at the Arboretum. In 1988, it became a full time business. Ambergate Gardens is a retail mail order/walk-in business devoted entirely to herbaceous perennial flowers. It also offers a line of wholesale containerized perennials to local designers and landscapers.

Brian Horgan University of Minnesota

Dr. Brian Horgan is an associate professor at the University of Minnesota. He received his B.S. from Michigan State University, and M.S.

from North Carolina State University and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. Horgan is a turfgrass Extension specialist and travels around the world giving lectures on nutrient fate, fertilizer management, water conservation strategies and general turfgrass management. His research focuses on creating common sense solutions for the practitioner of today and future turfgrass managers.

David Howrey Howrey Construction

David Howrey is the owner of Howrey Construction located in Rockwell City, Iowa, specializing in concrete golf cart paths and recreational trails. In 1995, Dave invented a slip form paver for constructing concrete paths which he perfected on golf courses. Today, Howrey Construction has paved over 100 miles of path in 9 different states.

Tim Huinker Anchor Wall Systems

Tim Huinker is a construction specialist for the Anchor Wall Systems team where he provides specialized sales, estimating, bidding, and installation

assistance to contractors. He has several years of training experience at Anchor along with his 17 years of hands-on design and installation experience in the hardscapes industry. He has written articles for hardscape and landscape contractor magazines, and has appeared in the HGTV programs "Landscape Smart" and "Curb Appeal," plus the Public Television program "Hometime" and DIY's "Sweat Equity." A member of the Anchor Wall Systems training team, he has presented more than 100 technical and design seminars to contractors, dealers and others in the industry. Huinker is a certified trainer for the National Concrete and Masonry Association, the Interlocking Concrete Pavement Institute, and the Home Builders Institute. He holds an associate degree in landscape design from Dakota County Technical College.

Norman Hummel Hummel & Co., Inc.

Dr. Norman Hummel is president and owner of Hummel & Co. Inc., a soil testing and turfgrass consulting business serving the golf, sports turf, and landscape industries. Hummel & Co. has been involved in several successful golf course, sports field, and landscape projects throughout the country as part of the design team or as the testing agent. Hummel & Co. is also involved as an advisor on turfgrass and soil management issues for golf course, sports fields, and landscapes. Hummel is a graduate of New Mexico State University, where he obtained a B.A. degree with honors in agronomy. He then went on to Penn State, where he earned a M.S. and Ph.D. in agronomy, with an emphasis on turfgrass soils and nutrition. He served on the faculties at Iowa State University and Cornell University and has published hundreds of research and technical articles on aspects of turfgrass management.

Mike Isensee Dakota County Soil and Water Conservation District

Mike Isensee currently serves as an urban conservationist at the Dakota County Soil and Water Conservation

District. In this capacity, he works as part of a team to provide technical assistance to the county, cities, developers, engineers and homeowners to plan, design and install water quality practices. Since 2008, Dakota SWCD has installed over 150 urban water quality practices.

Isensee is an instructor for the University of Minnesota Erosion and Sediment Control Certification Program, and the International Erosion Control Association, plus serves on the State of Minnesota Low Impact Development and Minimal Impact Design Standards Subcommittees.

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18277 150th Street • Park Rapids, MN 56470(218) 732-9137 • (800) 726-3001

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Rock Kelly Bachman's, Inc.

Rock Kelly gained bareroot nursery production experience before becoming production manger of Bachman's nursery growing facility in

Farmington. Kelly earned a B.S. in horticulture from South Dakota State University.

Dave Kleinhuizen Margolis Co.

As a dairy farmer’s son from western Minnesota in the 1970s, Dave Kleinhuizen realized he didn't want to venture too far from the land nor did he

want to milk cows for living. As he has stated many times "Landscaping is really farming in the city."

While attending the University of Minnesota and studying landscape horticulture, Kleinhuizen joined forces with Margolis Company Landscape Contractors in St. Paul. He became a partner in the company in 1995 and now shares company ownership with Jerry Romero. Margolis Company focuses their efforts in commercial landscape development and is primarily a bid/negotiate contractor. Projects vary in size from a few thousand to $1.4 million in size and include planting, turf, irrigation, greenroofs, infiltration gardens and subcontracting. Margolis Company also provides professional design services.

In 1988, he opened a 65-acre nursery in Forest Lake and produces quality shade trees for the wholesale landscape market.

Kleinhuizen served as co-chair of the MNLA Landscape Contractors Committee for seven years, and has been an active member of the Nursery Committee for the past six years. He also represents MNLA as their liason to MNSTAC and has served 3 years as finance chair at his church.

Dale Konetschka Gertens

Dale Konetschka has been connected to the garden center industry since working in garden centers while obtaining his degree in ornamental

horticulture at Burnley College of Horticulture in Melbourne, Australia. Since 1993 he has been a part of transforming Gertens Garden Center from its humble beginnings to being a nationally recognized leader in garden center retailing. Konetschka holds the position of general manager of Gertens and sits on the foundation board of the MNLA.

Jeff Latterell Irrigation Consulting Group

Jeff Latterell has both a Certified Irrigation Designer and a Certified

Landscape Irrigation Auditor designation from the Irrigation Association and is the managing director of Irrigation Consulting Group in Ham Lake. He also serves as chair of the MNLA Irrigation Industry Committee. He has been involved in the irrigation industry for over 30 years and is currently a licensed Power Limited Technician in Minnesota.

Steve Lawler Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources

Steve Lawler is presently employed as a board conservationist with the Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources and serves as a wetland specialist in southeastern Minnesota. Lawler has also been an active principal of Lawler Environmental, Inc., which has provided onsite soil and engineering interpretative services to private landowners since 1988. He has been involved in soil survey and mapping update projects as well as wetland mitigation services throughout Minnesota. He is a registered professional soil scientist with the state of Minnesota and is state certified as a wetland delineator.

Debbie Lonnee Bailey Nurseries, Inc.

For the first 13 years of her career, Debbie Lonnee worked in the retail garden center business, managing a large Twin Cities garden center. For the

last 18 years, she has worked as a production coordinator at Bailey Nurseries, working primarily with the perennial and bedding plant crops, as well as roses and woody plants. She was promoted to manager of the Planning and Administration department in 2006 and is actively involved in new plant introductions. She is an avid gardener, and has a collectors garden full of hostas, daylilies and perennials, as well as many new annuals. She is a member of the Perennial Plant Association, OFA, and is the vice president of the Board of Directors of the Minnesota Nursery & Landscape Association, as well as chairing the Publications Committee. Garden writing is her second job; she is the horticultural editor for Northern Gardener magazine, and also writes the ‘Plant to Pick’ article for each edition. She holds a B.S. in horticulture from the University of Minnesota.

Tim Malooly Water in Motion

Tim Malooly is the president of Water in Motion, Inc., a water resource consulting company specializing in efficient use of water in the outdoor living environment

including efficient irrigation design, stormwater mitigation, consulting and applied technologies. He serves on the boards of the MNLA, Irrigation Association, Gopher State One Call system and State Board of Electricity. Malooly and his employees hold multiple licenses and certifications and enthusiastically promote green industry education. In 2008, Malooly was recognized by the U.S. EPA as its WaterSense Partner of the Year.

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Patrick McGuiness Zlimen & McGuiness Attorneys at Law

Patrick McGuiness is a landscaper and an attorney. He is one of the owners of One Call Landscaping as well as a

founding partner at the law firm of Zlimen & McGuiness, as well as a lieutenant in the US Army Reserve JAG Corps. His law practice focuses on assisting those in the green industries with legal advice on employment law, contracts, liens, collections and other small business law. With 15 years experience in landscaping, McGuiness knows the issues contractors face on a daily basis and how hard they work to earn a living.

Tom Mead Golf Course Consultant

Tom Mead has been in the golf business for 36 years. For the first 15 years of his career, he worked as the golf course superintendent at four private clubs,

culminating in five years at the Mackenzie/Maxwell masterpiece located in Frankfort, Mich., Crystal Downs Country Club. At Crystal Downs, his work included the implementation of a comprehensive restoration program in collaboration with golf course architect, Geoffrey Cornish.

With extensive renovation experience gained during his years as a superintendent, coupled with a keen personal interest in golf architecture, Mead transitioned to the development side of the business, collaborating on Tom Doak’s first design effort, High Pointe Golf Club near Traverse City, Mich., where he served as project manager and grow-in superintendent. At High Pointe, he played an important role in the early development of what would become known as the minimalist movement of modern golf architecture.

After High Pointe, Mead spent a number of years freelancing on numerous projects, providing planning, permitting, construction management and consulting services for new and existing courses. In addition to the work he completed with Mr. Doak, he provided management for new course projects. He received a B.A. degree from Indiana University in anthropology and completed the turfgrass management program at Michigan State University. He is an accredited sustainability advisor for the Golf Environment Organization and a judge on Golf Digest’s Green Star Award panel.

Throughout his career, Mead has stressed the importance of the environmental aspects of the golf business. He has quietly and consistently implemented creative, pragmatic and environmentally sound designs, practices and specifications on numerous noteworthy projects throughout the country.

Guy Meilleur Better Tree Care Associates

Guy Meilleur is a practicing and consulting arborist for Better Tree Care

in Apex, North Carolina. He is a former staff arborist at the University of North Carolina, instructor at Duke University, and lecturer at North Carolina State University. He writes “Detective Dendro” and other articles for industry publications.

Meilleur is an ISA Board-Certified Master Arborist, municipal and utility specialist, and tree worker-climbing specialist. His work involves managing wood decay, pruning girdling roots, and restoring storm-damaged trees.

Dimitre Mollov Plant Disease Clinic, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota

Dimitre Mollov is a senior scientist at the Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota and the director of the Plant Disease Clinic. In his role as head diagnostician, Mollov has worked with hundreds of plant species and their associated health problems. His research interests are identifying and characterizing new viruses as plant pathogens.

Tim Moraghan ASPIRE Golf

For more than 30 years, Tim Moraghan’s talents and work ethic have brought a wealth of benefits to the golf industry. From grounds crew to construction of

new courses to golf course superintendent, Moraghan’s experience encompasses a wide range of talents and expertise in the golf arena, topped by his tenure as director of championship agronomy for the United States Golf Association (USGA), a position he held for more than two decades.

Since forming ASPIRE Golf Consulting in 2007, Moraghan has assembled an impressive international roster of clients, including prestigious private clubs, public courses, municipalities and resorts. The services of the firm include golf course consulting and turf management, golf course master planning, superintendent representation and placement. He also works with young superintendents through his ASPIRE Hire® program which encompasses resume enhancement, interview skills and refinement, and on-course facilities reviews.

Moraghan writes a popular monthly column, “Inside the Ropes” for Golf Course Industry and posts regularly to his blog at www.aspire-golf.com/buzz.html. He is a sought-after interview for golf talk radio and national media due, in part, to his candid assessments of the state of the game and his in-depth knowledge of the golf industry.

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Sarah Nettleton Sarah Nettleton Architects

As a registered architect with a masters from Tulane University, Sarah Nettleton is principal in the firm Sarah Nettleton Architects. In addition to professional

practice, she has taught at the University of Minnesota, College of Design and is a past chair of the Minnesota Chapter of the American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment. Her design experience includes a broad range of institutional, commercial and residential projects, integrating architectural and landscape design where sustainable is more than a concept, it is a measurable outcome. She is the author of the book The Simple Home: The Luxury of Enough.

Scott Nichols McGladrey

Scott Nichols leads the state and local tax practice in the Minneapolis office of McGladrey. He is directly responsible for providing multistate tax consulting services to clients in Minnesota and

throughout the upper Midwest. He has significant state and local tax consulting experience and concentrates his practice in the area of sales and use tax. Before joining McGladrey, he worked for several years in the state tax area with two big four firms. He also practiced as a sole practitioner for several years. He is a Certified Public Accountant and received his Juris Doctorate, cum laude, from William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul and his Bachelor of Arts degree in accounting from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

Eric Nordlie Bailey Nurseries, Inc.

Eric Nordlie graduated from the University of Minnesota with a bachelor’s degree in urban forestry and has spent the past 17 years working for Bailey Nurseries, Inc. in St. Paul

managing plant health in field and container growing as well as propagation.

Dick Osgood Osgood Consulting, LLC

Dick Osgood, Osgood Consulting, LLC, is a Certified Lake Manager (CLM), one of only five dozen in North America. He holds graduate degrees in aquatic ecology and geology and has over 30

years experience in lake science and management. He has worked with and for governmental agencies, private corporations and nonprofit organizations and specializes in developing lake management plans, invasive species programs, diagnostic studies, modeling and alum dosing. He

has authored numerous scientific journal papers, made hundreds of presentations at professional meetings, is the author of regular columns and has frequently served as an expert witness. He is co-instructor of the “Alum Workshop” at the Annual North American Lake Management Society Workshop, has authored a chapter in the book ‘Managing Lakes and Reservoirs,’ has served on the board of directors of the North American Lake Management Society (past-president), Minnesota Waters (officer and public policy committee chair), Minnesota Lakes Association (officer and policy committee chair), Excelsior Rotary Board and the South Lake-Excelsior Chamber of Commerce Board (officer). Osgood was an invited delegate to the Symposium on the Ecological Basis for Lake and Reservoir Management at the University of Leicester, England. Osgood Consulting, LLC was named the North American Lake Management Society’s ‘Outstanding Corporation’ in 2005.

Carl Osterhaus The Toro Company

Carl Osterhaus is the commercial division service education manager with The Toro Company in Bloomington. In

his 16 years with Toro, he has been involved in every aspect of technician training from content development, program delivery, identifying educational needs and looking for new and innovative solutions. When developing training materials or conducting training classes, he tries to look back on his 30 plus years in the mechanic/technician field to develop and present information in a way that is valuable to the attendee.

Craig Otto Irrigation Otto

Craig Otto is a water resource consultant for Irrigation Otto. He brings a wide range of irrigation experience in his almost 20 years in the industry. He

started in the golf course industry as a superintendent, and moved to residential/ commercial irrigation as a lead technician, ultimately owning and operating a service-based irrigation company. Otto has focused on promoting high efficiency irrigation as an instructor and curriculum developer for a major manufacturer, teaching nationally and internationally. His specialties include system design, consulting, and auditing.

Anthony Pioppi Freelance Writer and Author

Anthony Pioppi is the author of several publications including: “To the Nines,” and “The History of The Minikahda Club Golf Course,” that is scheduled to be

published in 2012 and co-author of “Haunted Golf.” Pioppi has also written for magazines including Golf Course Architecture, Golfdom, and Links.

He worked on golf course grounds crews in Florida and

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Connecticut including TPC River Highlands, home of the PGA Tour’s Travelers Championship. He was also a volunteer grounds crew member at the 2000 and 2005 Open Championships (both at the Old Course), the 2005 Walker Cup (Chicago Golf Club), the 2006 Curtis Cup (Pacific Dunes) and the 2006 U.S. Women’s Open (Newport Country Club).

He is currently in the process of developing an affordable nine-hole daily fee course in his hometown of Middletown, Conn.

The executive director of the Seth Raynor Society, Pioppi plays his golf at the municipally-owned Hunter Golf Course.

Zac Reicher University of Nebraska

Zac Reicher is currently a professor of turfgrass science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as of March 2010. His primary responsibility is to work with

professional turf managers in on-going education and troubleshooting. In addition, he maintains an active research program primarily in weed management and reduction of management inputs and teaches sophomore and senior level turfgrass science classes. He holds a B.S. and M.S. from Iowa State University as well as Ph.D. from Purdue University.

Scott Reynolds Creative Habitats Inc./ HarmonyStone

Scott Reynolds has been in the landscape/nursery business for 35 years. He established Creative Habitats Inc. in

1992 which immediately filled a need for natural stone work in the Twin Cities. His work has been seen on HGTV, regional and local magazines, newspapers and television stations. He also established HarmonyStone in 2006, which manufactures natural stone products for the home improvement, building and landscape industries.

Carl Rosen University of Minnesota

Carl Rosen has a B.S. and an M.S. degree in horticulture from Penn State University and a Ph.D. in soil science from the University of California at

Davis. Since 1983, he has been at the University of Minnesota as an extension soil scientist with specific emphasis on horticultural crops. He was appointed head of the Department of Soil, Water, and Climate in June 2010. His research involves improving nutrient use efficiency by crops as well as calibration of soil and tissue tests to improve nutrient management in the landscape. He is also involved with research related to the beneficial use of municipal by-products such as compost to improve soil quality.

Kay Sargent Minnesota Department of Agriculture

Kay Sargent is an agricultural advisor with the Minnesota Department of Agriculture’s Licensing and Certification

Unit. She works with the University of Minnesota and sponsoring organizations, such as MNLA and MTGF, to present pesticide applicator recertification workshops. The workshops provide both new information and review materials on responsible pest management and applicable pesticide laws. She holds a B.S. in horticulture, a M.S. in environmental safety and health, and worked for many years at the University of Minnesota’s experiment station in Grand Rapids.

Joe Schaffer Minnesota Native Landscapes, Inc.

Joe Schaffer is the owner of Minnesota Native Landscapes, Inc., an ecological services company that has been

providing restoration solutions for sites across the state since 1998. Schaffer has been a member of the MNLA Sustainable Environment committee for the past 5 years. He has a degree in Wildlife biology from Iowa State University and is a Certified Professional in Erosion and Sediment Control (CPESC). He has over a decade of experience in solving unique and challenging restoration situations.

Jeffrey Scott Jeffrey Scott Consulting

Jeffrey Scott, MBA, is a business consultant and author of “The Referral Advantage” and “The Leader’s Edge.” He built his family’s landscape business

into a $10 million enterprise. He now consults with over 50 landscape organizations across the continent. He also facilitates peer groups for landscape business owners who want to transform their business.

Derek Settle Chicago District Golf Association

Derek Settle has completed five seasons with the Chicago District Golf Association as director of turfgrass

programs. Since 2006, his mission has been threefold: to help district golf course superintendents through diagnostics, research and education. During the difficult summer of 2010, Settle made more than 140 diagnostic visits to member clubs to help golf course superintendents identify and control turfgrass problems. He also conducts field research and product tests with the help of the turfgrass program staff to determine current best practices for healthy turf

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management. Reaching turf professionals has been a focus of Settle's throughout his tenure at the association; he publishes and distributes approximately 40 weekly scouting reports to more than 350 district superintendents, select university colleagues and turf industry personnel.

John Stier University of Tennessee

With a background in growing turf indoors for the World Cup soccer tournament, John Stier became the environmental turfgrass Extension

specialist at the University of Wisconsin from 1997-2011, focused on environmental and social science issues associated with turfgrass management. He is currently assistant dean at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where he is adding warm season grass management to his skill set. Stier holds a B.S. and M.S. in plant pathology from The Ohio State University and a Ph.D. in crop and soil sciences from Michigan State University.

Dale Sutherland Crop Production Services - Timberland Divison

Dale Sutherland has been with CPS Timberland since 2002 as territory manager and has a wide range of experience including Mn/DOT district 1 forester, owner/operator of a vegetation management company, and forest technician in Itasca County all dating back to 1985. He specializes in industrial vegetation management for forestry, rights-of-way and invasive species.

Justin Sykora Prairie Restorations, Inc.

Justin Sykora has been an employee of Prairie Restorations, Inc. since 2003 and has focused on management during this time. He is the land management

supervisor at the company’s Two Oaks location in Scandia, MN. His responsibilities include providing hands-on assistance with all prairie management activities in the Scandia territory (approximately 250 sites). This includes prescribed burning, herbaceous weed control, enhancement of existing projects, buckthorn control, consultation and management planning. Sykora is also responsible for the training and guidance of the summer management staff. He is involved in the planning and implementation of an average of 50 prescribed burns per year.

Brad Tabke Reliable Property Services

Brad Tabke, CLP, is the vice president of sales at Reliable Property Services in Eagan. He is an active member of the IREM, IFMA, MMHA, the Professional

Landcare Network and the Shakopee Chamber of Commerce. Brad graduated from Iowa State with a B.S. in horticulture and has worked in Chicago and the Twin Cities managing commercial and residential landscapes with a focus on environmental sustainability and responsibility.

Lloyd Traven Peace Tree Farm

Lloyd Traven has been the owner of Peace Tree Farm since 1983 where he maintains a USDA Certified Organic status. He was nominated U.S. Grower

of the Year by Greenhouse Grower Magazine and is a regular guest on the Martha Stewart Show. He has authored chapters in the OFA Tips, Ball Red Book and has written for several industry publications. He has a seat on the AFE Scholarship Committee and the OFA Grower Short Course Planning Committee. He obtained his M.S. from Cornell University.

Craig Trenary Terra Forma Design LLC

Craig Trenary has a B.S. degree in landscape design from South Dakota State University. He formed Terra Forma Design in 2005 after working for other

landscape companies in the Twin Cities since 1994. Terra Forma Design is a design-build company based in the Twin Cities.

Dennis Ullom St. Croix Tree Service

Dennis Ullom has been involved in all aspects of tree care and tree planting for 38 years as the owner of St Croix Tree Service. In that peroid, he has seen the

green industry research and knowledge base grow along with an appreciation for all things green. He is pleased to be a part of the MNLA Commercial Arborist Committee and a long time member of the Minnesota Society of Arboriculture.

James Urban Urban Trees + Soils

James Urban, FASLA, specializes in the design of trees and soils in urban spaces. He has written and lectured extensively on the subject of urban tree planting

and has been responsible for the introduction of many innovations including most of the current standards relating to urban tree plantings. He was instrumental in the development of structural cells and structural planting soils for use under sidewalk pavements, micro root paths, and macro soil trench techniques. Urban is credited with helping to re-awaken the profession of landscape architecture to the

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skills required to successfully plant trees in difficult urban soils. In 2007, he was awarded the ASLA Medal of Excellence for his work with urban trees and soils.

Mark Van Hoef Oregon Pride

Mark Van Hoef is a St. Paul native who graduated from Harding High School and attended Augustana College in Sioux Falls, majoring in pheasant

hunting and basketball. After 4 years working for a major manufacturing company in Michigan, and a two year MBA study at the University of Montana; started an independent business in 1978. He covered the Midwest territory for 19 years working with garden centers and wholesale growers. In 1989, Van Hoef purchased 75 acres and started his own nursery company in McMinnville, Ore. In the beginning, he started as 5 acres of container production with the focus on container grown taxus, spruce and pine. Today, Oregon Pride Nurseries includes 250 acres of container and pot-in-pot growing facility. The company’s current production line-up includes a full line of conifers, shrubs and trees. Most of the product is propagated and/or grafted on site, and is then field grown to sales specifications. Product is harvested either bare root or field balled, and immediately transplanted into containers to be finished as container-established product for independent garden centers. They continue to specialize in the more unique retail varieties in ornament trees, shrubs and conifers. Much of their most recent work on product development has been in the area of grafted conifers. After 22 years, they continue to test new varieties and production methods to improve on the program.

Tim Vogel Bailey Nurseries, Inc.

Tim Vogel has been with Bailey Nurseries, Inc. for the past 15 years in various capacities. He began working in the storage facility and moved to field inventory and container trees. The

inventory department serves as an information hub for production, sales, and planning/administration. He holds a B.A. in agricultural business.

Dave Wanninger Boerner Botanic Gardens

Dave Wanninger is horticulturist in charge at Boerner Botanical Gardens in Hales Corners, Wisc. Boerner Botanical Gardens is part of the Milwaukee County park system. Previously, he was

chief horticulturist at Beaver Creek Nursery, a wholesale nursery specializing in newer, cutting-edge plant species and varieties.

In his more than 25 years in horticulture, Wanninger has also been a nursery manager at a large independent garden

center, and owned and operated a small landscaping business. He has also been a long time instructor in the horticulture and landscaping program at Blackhawk Technical College in Janesville, Wisc.

Patrick Warden Bachman's Inc.

Patrick Warden is the landscape manager at Bachman's. Warden has been in the landscape field for over 20 years. He is also a member of the MNLA

Landscape Professional Advancement Committee as well as a member of the MNLA Awards Committee.

Eric Watkins University of Minnesota

Eric Watkins is an associate professor in the Department of Horticultural Science at the University of Minnesota. Watkins received his Ph.D. in plant biology from

Rutgers University. His research focuses on the development of low‐input turfgrass cultivars for use in cold climates. Research activities involve germplasm improvement of several cool‐season turfgrass species including tall fescue, Kentucky bluegrass, and perennial ryegrass. A major focus of his research is breeding native grasses such as prairie junegrass (Koeleria macrantha) for use as low‐input turf. He is also involved with turfgrass cultivar evaluation and other turfgrass science research, as well as teaching several undergraduate turfgrass science courses.

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