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Volume 39, No. 1
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7 On the Record: Where's Your Hill of 'Beenz?'
10 Events
13 Green Side Up: One Locker Remains Empty
14 My Way: Make 'Our Gang' Work for You
16 Let's Hear It
19 Industry Almanac
26 Hot New Products for 2000
34 Grounds Management Center: A Mountain of a Task
38 Control Gets 'Smart': Regulations and High Costs are Forcing Many Irrigators to Use Water More Efficiently. One Solution? Take Advantage of 'Smart' Controllers
42 Demo That Mower First: Mowing Managers Say That Price is Important, but Not as Important as Durability, Serviceability and Dealer Support
54 What's New With Hydroseeding?: Will This Method Improve Your Operations? New Technology is Making This Process More Useful
58 LM Reports
62 Ask the Expert
62 -Quackgrass Attack
64 Products
70 LM Mart
72 Classified Showcase
75 Ad Index
76 Cleanup Crew
76 -Put Away That Big Mower - for Good


Volume 39, No. 2
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7 On the Record: Be a Player in the Labor Game
10 Events
13 Green Side Up: Standing the Test of Time
16 My Way: Our People are Productive
24 It's Your Life: It's Your Money: Get Good Help
28 Industry Almanac
36 Choosing 'Designer' or 'Generic' Fertilizers
48 The Labor Crunch: [Part 1]
48 -Finding Good People
49 -Table of Contents
50 -Rx for Winning in the Service Industry
57 -Don't Ask Why, Just do It!: When You become the Industry's 'Ambassador' in Your Area, You Might Discover That Good Employees Will Find You
62 -FFA Seeks Partners: In a Tight Labor Market, One Organization Wants to Supply the Entire Green Industry with Workers
66 -You can Find Mechanics Worth a Pot of Gold
72 -Irrigation: Looking to Fill the 'Trenches'
80 LM Presents Award-Winning Landscape Management: Leisure World
82 LM Reports: Blazing a Trail
85 Ask The Expert
86 Jobtalk: 'Fantastic' Display
88 Products
91 Ad Index
92 Classified Showcase
97 LM Mart
98 Cleanup Crew
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Volume 39, No. 3
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7 On the Record: Is Loyalty Dead?
10 Events
13 Green Side Up: The Spark That LCOs Need
16 My Way: Discipline isn't Easy
26 It's Your Life: Counter Uncertainty with a Sound Investment Plan
30 Industry Almanac
31 Info Center
36 Labor Issue Part 2
36 -Fish Where They're Bitin': How One Manager Found All the 'Good' People He Needed to Succeed in the Lawn Service Business
42 -How to Supervise 'Special' People: When You Hire Young Employees, Older Workers and the Frequently Unemployed, You have Special Management Challenges
48 -H2B: The Legal Alternative: Savvy Contractors are Already Making This System Work for Them and There's Room for More Legal Immigrants
54 -Develop Your Own Career Track: These Companies Took Care of Their Employees, Only to Watch Them Grow into Competent Managers and Supervisors
68 Irrigation Center: Green Space: Steve Schepers, Owner, Lakeshore Irrigation Inc., Holland, MI
74 Award-Winning Landscape Management: Abbot Laboratories
76 Lawn Care: Weed Control: Turf vs. Ornamental Beds: Some Products Suited for Turf can Damage Ornamental Beds, and Vice Versa
84 LM Reports: Best Way to Spray
89 Ask the Expert
90 Jobtalk: Going After Those Ghastly Geese
93 Products
97 Products: Welcome Additions: Mower Attachments may be the Answer to Boosting Your Bottom Line, Not to Mention Saving Time and Reducing Worker Exhaustion
99 LM Mart
100 Classified Showcase
103 Ad Index
104 Cleanup Crew


Volume 39, No. 4
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7 On the Record: Risky Business
10 Events
13 Green Side Up: This is What Really Matters
16 My Way: Is This the Best Way to do It?
22 Industry Almanac
25 -Transgenic Turf is a Great Opportunity for the Green Industry
30 Killer Niche Markets!
38 Labor Crunch: The Supervisors' Tale: These Employees were Developed into Managers from within the Company. Your Employees may have Similar Potential
44 Award-Winning Landscape Management: Xavier University
46 Green Star Professional Grounds Management Awards 2000
50 2000 Truck Guide: We're Talkin' Trucks: Dependability, Price and Everything Nice - That's What Landscape Managers Want Trucks to be Made of
67 Tech Center: Insecticides a la Mode
73 LM Reports: Mower Madness
81 Ask the Expert
81 -How Does Mach 2 Stack Up
82 Products
90 LM Mart
92 Classified Showcase
95 Ad Index
96 Cleanup Crew
96 -Wood would be Good
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Volume 39, No. 5
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7 On the Record: I'd Buy Time if I could
10 Events
13 Green Side Up: Offering a Cultural Bridge
14 My Way: Education We Keep at It
16 Let's Hear It
21 Industry Almanac
26 Info Center
28 Market Under the Microscope: DC Corridor
36 Labor Crunch: Make Your Training Work
39 The Natural: Once Scoffed at for His 'Hippie' Ways, Landscaper Henrikus Schraven's Personal, Nature-Inspired Ideas Now Attract Discerning Clients - And Garner Awards
47 Product Focus: All Decked Out
48 Award-Winning Landscape Management: The Breakers
52 Taking Care of a County: With 419 Square Miles of Territory and a North-South Length of 36 Miles, Anne Arundel County is Big Grounds Maintenance Challenge
54 Tech Center: Inside-Out Disease Control: You'll Get the Best Results When You Use the Right Fungicide for the Problem. New Products Give You Even More Options
62 Jobtalk: Planting for Profits: By Splitting Workers into Prep and Plant Crews, Hillenmeyer Increased Efficiency
64 LM Reports: Light Up Your Profits
71 Ask the Expert
72 Products
81 LM Mart
83 Advertiser Index
84 Classified Showcase
88 Cleanup Crew
88 -A Very Good Year


Volume 39, No. 6
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7 On the Record: The Power of Planning
10 Events
13 Green Side Up: Why Not Raise a Sweat?
16 My Way: This Process Closes Sales
19 Industry Almanac
20 -California City Considers Banning Pesticides
23 -Get Ready, Feds Say It's Going to be Dry
29 Get the Seed Money You Need
36 Labor Crunch: All Before 8 A.M.: Develop Skills and Create Energy
38 Award-Winning Landscape Management: Rock Creek Ranch
41 Construction/Installation Guide
41 -Handle Hidden Installation Surprises
44 -Make Money on Every Job: Profits can Fall into a Black Hole Between Bid Day and Completion
48 -Getting It Together: Landscape Construction and Installation Contractors Explain How to become a Lean, Mean Efficiency Machine
52 -Tough Stuff
58 Fertifation: Move to the Next Level: When a Condominium's Property Languished, the Managers Turned to Fertigation. It Might be Just the Solution You Need
62 LM Reports: Avoid These Pipe Pitfalls
69 Ask the Expert
69 -Gypsy Moth Infestation
70 Product Focus: Cutting Edge
74 LM Mart
76 Classified Showcase
79 Ad Index
80 Cleanup Crew
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Volume 39, No. 7
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7 On the Record: It was a Done Deal
8 Events
9 Green Side Up: No Reason to Turn Back Now
10 My Way: Know Your Boundaries
13 It's Your Life: Plan for Your Future: It's Never too Late to Save
16 Industry Almanac
16 -Say Goodbye to Dursban
16 -Green Industry Responds
20 Info Center
21 State of the Industry 2000: One Hot Economy
24 -Part 1: Great Growth, but for How Long?
25 -Year in Review
35 -Snapshot 2000: Overview of an Industry
40 -Part 2: What's on the Horizon?
45 Equipment Safety: Safety in Numbers: Workers' Comp Rate too High? These Tips May Help You and Your Crews Operate More Safely While You Cut Insurance Costs
52 Labor Crunch: Get Out of Your Employees' Way: Turn Your Training Over to Your Troops and Watch Them Teach You a Thing or Two About Learning Together
54 10 Reasons Why I won't Work for You: Try Looking at the World According to Your Employees. It could Save Your Future
60 Product Focus: Paving the Way
62 Award-Winning Landscape Management: Westmoor Farm
64 LM Reports: Better Safe Than Sued
71 Jobtalk: An Up and Down Situation: Elevation Changes and Water-Specific Plantings Made for One Tough Irrigation Project
73 Ask the Expert
73 -Unwanted Vegetation
74 Products
80 LM Mart
82 Classified Showcase
85 Ad Index
86 Cleanup Crew
86 -LM 2000 State of the Industry Survey's Top Three Concerns by Size of Operation
86 -[Numerous Respondents to LM's 200 State of the Industry Survey on Training Topics]


Volume 39, No. 8
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7 On the Record: How High Tech won't Help
8 Events
11 Green Side Up: Boring? Are You Kidding?
14 My Way: Don't Plan, and Go Nowhere
16 Industry Almanac
16 -ABT Saga Drawing to a Close
16 -Ryegrass - What a Bargain!
18 -PLCAA Polls Members on Dursban Limit
19 -Web-Wise Operators
24 High Tech Tools
24 -Get Mobile with Tech
32 -Turf Goes 'Space Age': GPS isn't Just for Golf Courses Anymore
36 -ASPs: Outsource Services on the 'Net
39 Product Focus: Divine Design
40 Labor Crunch: 13 Ideas to Ignite Training
42 Award-Winning Landscape: Peterson Air Force Base
44 Tech Center: Life After Dursban: The New Insecticides
50 LM Reports: High-Tech Wonders
54 Jobtalk: Tree Treatment Goes Bio
59 Ask the Expert
61 Products
61 Ad Index
62 LM Mart
63 Classified Showcase
66 Cleanup Crew
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Volume 39, No. 9
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7 On the Record: How to Get Rewards and Respect
10 Events
13 Green Side Up: Hey Joe, Say It ain't So!
14 My Way: How to Plan for Success
16 Industry Almanac
16 -Southeast Hoping for Fall Moisture
19 Info Center
24 LM 100
25 -Big 25 Landscape Contractors
30 -Big 25 Lawn Care Contractors
34 -20 Leading Grounds Organizations
40 -20 Great Smaller Companies
44 -10 Noteworthy Newsmakers
46 Labor Crunch: Lights! Camera! Training!
48 Award-Winning Landscape Management: Pinehurst
51 Snow Guide 2000
51 -10 Steps to a Better Snow Business: Ready for a Profitable Season? These Tips Will Make Your Operations Run More Smoothly in Any Weather
56 -Products
63 Corporate Capabilities
90 Design/Build Center: The 'Perfect' Installation
98 LM Reports: Cleanup Made Easy
104 Jobtalk: Driving Daytona
107 Ask the Expert
107 -Newly Seeded Lawns
107 -Sod Webworms
108 Products
109 LM Mart
110 Ad Index
111 Classified Showcase
114 Cleanup Crew


Volume 39, No. 10
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7 On the Record: One Voice, One Message
8 Events
11 Green Side Up: Good News Down Mexico Way
12 My Way: You May be an Inventor
16 Industry Almanac
16 -'Biocalendar' Helps Plan Pesticide Applications
18 -RISE Predicts Uphill Struggle
24 The Hispanic Partnership
24 -Our Industry's Appetite for Landscape Laborers from South of the Border Just Keeps Growing and Growing
28 -How to Build the Hispanic Relationship: Doing a Few Little Things for Your Hispanic Workers Will Keep Them Happy...and Coming back
32 -Four Factors for Success: Want to Help Your Hispanic Employees Assimilate Quickly? These Four Factors Will Get You Started
36 15 Threats to Your Business
40 Picture This: You don't have to be an A/V Nerd to Spice Up Training
42 Award-Winning Landscape Management: University of Missouri
44 Jobtalk: Louis-Dreyfus Estate Revives Soil
48 LM Reports: Living on the Edge
51 Ask the Expert
51 -Why All the Rust?
53 Products
57 Product Focus: Wall-to-Wall
58 LM Mart
59 Ad Index
60 Classified Showcase
64 Cleanup Crew
64 -Geese Go Bye-Bye
   
 
Working the Web: E-Business 2000: The Green Industry Internet Report
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4e Plugged in: E-Commerce Provides Green Industry with a New Way of doing Business
10e Computers and E-Maintenance: Fad, Folly or the Future?
12e Questions Abound: Where do Distributors Fit in the E-Commerce Equation
15e Tips: Buying Online
16e Take Advantage of the Web
17e Will Surf for Work: The Web's a Great Place to Go Job Hunting. Here's a Primer for the Golf and Landscape Industries
20e Defining E-Commerce
23e Web Clips
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Volume 39, No. 11
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7 On the Record: Kick the Habit
8 Events
9 Green Side Up: Slam Dunk, Landscape Style
11 My Way: Marketing is a Science
14 Industry Almanac
16 Info Center
20 2000 POY Award
20 -Winner: Landscape Contracting: Bruce Hunt, Vice President, The Brickman Group, Ltd., Langhorne, PA
22 -Winner: Lawn Care: Terry Kurth, Director of Development, Weed Man U.S.A., Middleton, Wi
27 -Winner: Grounds Management: Kevin O'Donnell: Superintendent of Grounds, Villanova University, Philadelphia, PA
30 20 Ways to Make Cold Calling Work
35 Creating a Desert Wetland
38 Labor Crunch: They don't Participate
40 Award-Winning Landscape Management: Chene Park
42 Tech Center: Alternative Medicine for Turf
49 Jobtalk: What Labor Crunch?
52 LM Reports: The Tractor Factor
55 Ask the Expert
56 Products
61 LM Mart
61 Ad Index
62 Classified Showcase
66 Cleanup Crew


Volume 39, No. 12
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4 On the Record: Green and 'Clueless'
6 GreenBook 2001
6 -Events
11 -Key Associations
12 -Associations
23 -University Contacts
34 -Web Control
61 -Editorial Index
38 LM's Quick Reference Technical Guide
38 -Employees
40 -Disease Control
42 --Alternative Medicines for Your Turf
48 -Insects
48 --Cool- and Warm-Season Insect Pests
52 -Operation Ideas
58 -Fertilizers
65 Green Book Directory
66 -Suppliers
96 -Distributors
114 -Product Index
117 -Yellow Pages: Buying Directory
168 LM Mart
170 Classified Showcase
174 Ad Index
   
   
   
   
   
   
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