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		<title>Performance Bowling Greens and Money Saving</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The autumn is traditionally a busy time for bowling green contractors, greenkeepers and club officials as they decide, plan and carry out the autumn renovation works on the green before putting it to bed for the winter. Now have a look back over that last paragraph; if you didn’t wince at least twice, then it’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deeper Faster Bigger…Better…Not in Bowling Green Maintenance!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Next question to ask as a matter of urgency: Does anyone have plans to get rid of compaction once and for all by hiring in a guy with a tractor and a big spiker that can go in 12, 16, 18, 20 inches? You add your own number here. Pointers: Compaction is an on-going issue; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://greenmaster.co.uk/agronomics/deeper-faster-bigger%e2%80%a6better%e2%80%a6not-in-bowling-green-maintenance/</link>
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		<title>(s)Top Dressing!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2010 has seen a lot of greens devastated by Localised Dry Patch a disorder that is rapidly becoming the scourge of Bowling Green Maintenance Specialists and Club Greenkeepers a like. I make no apology for writing about this once again, because in my opinion this issue has the ability to accelerate the decline of many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://greenmaster.co.uk/agronomics/stop-dressing/</link>
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		<title>Irrigation for Bowling Greens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Further to my previous post a lot of clubs have been in touch recently to ask for advice about irrigation systems; mainly about the cost of installing them. Readers of my book Performance Bowling Greens a practical guide will know that I am not a big fan of the industry accepted standard for bowling green [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://greenmaster.co.uk/agronomics/irrigation-for-bowling-greens/</link>
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		<title>End of Season Bowling Green Maintenance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Its time again for clubs to be thinking about the end of season maintenance program and many of these programs will follow “tradition” and will include the application of several tonnes of high sand content top-dressing. However, one of the most prevalent problems on bowling greens in the UK is that of Localised Dry Patch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bowling Green Maintenance and Club Survival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The link between Bowling Green Maintenance and Bowling Club Survival has never been more obvious…has it? Later this week we will be releasing our new publication Bowling Club Survival and in it the process of Green Maintenance is shown to be critical in several different ways. The most obvious link between Bowling Green Maintenance and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>End of Year Bowling Green Maintenance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s nearly time again to be thinking about what to do to the green after the last game has been played. I still hear the phrases “closing the green down for winter” and “putting the green to bed for winter” all too often and that is a worry. Of course these are for the most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://greenmaster.co.uk/news/end-of-year-bowling-green-maintenance/</link>
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		<title>Greenmaster National Mixed Pairs Winners</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sunday 22nd August saw the finals of the Greenmaster Scottish National Mixed Pairs being held in glorious sunshine at Broughty Bowling Club. Pictured left to right are John Quinn, Greenmaster Ltd, Kevin and Marion Fraser the tournament winners from Newhills Bowling Club, Aberdeen and Scottish Bowling Association President Ewen Farrell.]]></description>
		<link>http://greenmaster.co.uk/news/greenmaster-national-mixed-pairs-winners/</link>
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		<title>Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC) and Performance Bowling Greens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If Localised Dry Patch is the worst of the endemic disorders in bowling greens that have been mis-managed over the last 3 or 4 decades; then it only just beats low Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC) as the most devastating of problems. CEC refers to a chemical process that occurs in the soil of healthy living [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://greenmaster.co.uk/agronomics/cation-exchange-capacity-cec-and-performance-bowling-greens/</link>
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		<title>Club Survival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The future of bowls at club level has probably never been less certain than it is today. With many clubs struggling to attract new members and meet the cost of basic bills, the effects of the recession on club revenues and the costs of maintaining and running a club going up rapidly, it is time [...]]]></description>
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