Check out what a Southern turf expert says about the spring agronomic conditions in the Southeast, including around that little course that Bobby Jones created, in our newest podcast featuring Dr. Kathie Kalmowitz of BASF.
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Here's a little bit about more information about Kathie:
Kathie is a Market Development Specialist for BASF Turf & Ornamentals. She offers technical support in the southern states from North Carolina to New Mexico for the Turf & Ornamental team. The focus for these regions is mainly on warm season turfgrass management in residential and landscape maintenance, golf and recreational fields, and greenhouse and nursery production.
Kathie is also involved in local research projects, with university and industry consultants, as they address regional uses and help provide the technical fit of BASF turf & ornamental products across these regions.
Her professional career includes ten years as a Horticulture Extension Agent in Charleston, South Carolina for Clemson University. Kathie later joined American Cyanamid Company in 1993 as a Field Research Agriculturist later moving to a Research & Development Product Development Manager position for turf & ornamental products in Princeton, NJ. This occurred prior to joining BASF in 2000, when the two companies merged.
Kathie spent two years as a BASF Research & Development Project Manager for Turf & Ornamentals and has been in Technical Service Group supporting the T&O team since 2003.
She received her Master's degree in Ornamental Horticulture from Clemson University, and a Ph.D. in Horticultural Science at North Carolina State University. Her Masters degree was with Phytophthora/weed control in container nursery production and her Ph.D. was on Poa annua control in golf course turfgrass using the pathogen Xanthomonas compestris.