Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Back to School

Well today was our first day back at class in the Rutgers Two Year Turf Management Program. We started the day off with a short orientation meeting, followed by two classes.
Our first class of year two was on budgeting. We discussed what a budget was. It is a plan for the year. We also examined a few budgets and talked about what you can conclude by looking at them. How the budget varience (both under and over) allows for interpretation on different situations that may have been present during the past years.
Our second class of the day was on irrigation. We discussed sources for irrigation water and how to determine if a source is suitable. The source should be sufficient in quantity, quality, and cost. We also examined methods to determine how much water is required to meet the needs of the plant, based on evapotranspiration. Evapotranspiration is effected by sunlight, temperature, humidity, and wind.
It was a good first day, and should be a good term. We gained two new classmates, they attended the Fall 2009 session and are finishing with us... and we lost three of our classmates

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