Just like a home with no landscaping, a brand without curb appeal gets ignored. Many landscape businesses jump straight to explaining their services (enlightenment) or asking for the sale (commitment), but they forget the first step: sparking curiosity. Without that, customers simply pass by.
Respiratory safety can feel confusing when your work involves a mix of regulations. In this session, we’ll use realistic examples to show how the new respiratory safety guide from the MSU Dept. of Occupational Medicine and MSU Extension makes it easier to choose the right protective gear.
You’ll leave with tools you can use right away to keep your workers safe and your firm compliant.
Tree stresses caused by environmental factors such as drought, cold, and flooding, are among some of the most common problems faced by trees in the Great Lakes region. In this presentation, Dr. Bert Cregg, Professor of Horticulture and Forestry at Michigan State University, will discuss abiotic problems that affect trees and the site conditions that often lead to them.
Dr. Cregg will present ways to deal with abiotic issues and suggest tree selections that may head off problems before they start.
Join Kevin Adams, Central Pro Supply’s Regional Lighting Business Manager for the Midwest, as he shares practical tips for using landscape lighting maintenance agreements to boost recurring revenue, streamline operations, and keep your customers’ lighting systems performing their best.
“Safety First” sounds great until you realize everyone says it and yet no one defines what it actually means. In high-risk work, slogans and checkbox trainings rarely translate to real protection in the field. This session bypasses the feel-good buzz words and digs into what keeps people safe and shows why simply “getting home at the end of the day” is the bare minimum. Of course, everyone goes home at the end of the day - but how do we do that?
High-risk doesn’t always mean jumping out of planes. In this dynamic session, a professional skydiver and safety consultant draws parallels between the intensity of extreme sports and the day-to-day pressures of the Green Industry. Whether you’re trimming trees under tension or managing tight timelines and working on a roadside, success depends on focus and adaptability, paired with well-executed systems and procedures.
Posting on social media can feel like a full-time job, especially when you’re already busy running your business. Here, you’ll learn simple ways to use AI tools to plan, write, and organize your social media content faster and easier. We’ll show real examples made for landscaping, nursery, and garden center businesses, including how to:
• Come up with post ideas that attract new customers
• Write captions that sound natural and professional
• Reuse photos, reviews, and videos to make fresh posts
In this session, we will cover how simple AI tools like ChatGPT can help you build training guides, checklists, and even SOPs in minutes, no tech skills needed! We’ll walk through real examples of how landscaping and nursery businesses are using AI to:
• Turn company notes or safety tips into step-by-step training materials
• Create on-boarding SOPs for new employees
• Keep important information easy to find and share with your team
Field Horsetail, also known as Equisetum, is a tough weed species in field ornamental production. It an herbaceous perennial weed which is native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere and it is a spore-bearing plant. At MSU, IR4 herbicide efficacy trial has been performed where several herbicides have been tested for Field Horsetail control. In this presentation, audience will get an overview of the IR4 Equisetum herbicide efficacy trial results.
Weeds belonging to the lower group of plants include liverwort, algae, moss, nostoc etc. These groups represent some of the oldest organisms on earth and play an important part in the ecosystems. However, in greenhouse and nursery ornamental production systems often, these weeds can cause severe loss due to high competition for limited resources and reduction in the aesthetic values of the crops.