Bayer Environmental Science, a business group of Bayer CropScience LP, will hosted the first Plant Health Symposium on November 10-11 in Raleigh, NC. Bayer has created an Advisory Council of Lawn Care Professionals and Golf Course Superintendents, who alongside university researchers will provide insight about plant health and its impact on the future of the green industry.
“Bayer has been providing industry leading products designed to control devastating pests,” states Neil Cleveland, Managing Director, Bayer Environmental Science. “Our Plant Health Initiative drives the innovation process in providing lawn and golf professionals with solutions beyond insect, disease, and weed control.” Healthy, well maintained green spaces (turfgrass, trees, and plants) provide positive environmental benefits such as decreasing erosion, buffering noise as well as the cooling effect on temperature.
The Plant Health Initiative reinforces Bayer’s position as an industry leader with innovative technology and the latest state-of-the-art research. Bayer has a number of existing components that support Plant Health and will be bringing new products to market that further expand the Initiative. The U.S. center of this research is conducted at the Bayer Development and Training Center in Clayton, N.C. and is complimented by the research facilities at North Carolina State University. During the symposium, the attendees will get a behind-the-scenes tour of both facilities.