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Welcome to the Oregon Turfgrass Foundation

Welcome to the new Oregon Turfgrass Foundation website! Please take some time to peruse the site and learn what the Oregon Turfgrass Foundation is all about. We encourage your comments as we strive to make this site a valuable tool for our industry.

The Oregon Turfgrass Foundation is composed of turfgrass industry professionals and allied experts who seek to enhance turfgrass users’ experiences and turfgrass conditions. The OTF raises funds to improve the understanding of turfgrass needs, conditions and benefits. Funds raised will provide support for student scholarships and higher education projects including the identification of input efficiencies. The OTF is dedicated to enhancing turfgrass use and its enjoyment.

Since its inception in 2001, the OTF and its precursor organization, the OGCSA Foundation, has raised nearly $300,000 through individual and corporate donations as well as from the annual OGCSA Foundation Golf Tournament.

The OTF financially supports the Oregon State University Turfgrass Program and helps ensure its success through the establishment of an endowment. Research projects recommended and funded by the OTF serve to benefit Oregon’s state wide turfgrass industry. The OTF actively engages in outreach to the turfgrass industry seeking to both receive and share information.

Q & A with Dr. Rob Golembiewski—OSU

When Dr. Rob Golembiewski took the reins from Tom Cook at the Oregon State University Turfgrass Program, he shared his vision on where he wanted to see the program in the future. Since then, enrollment has increased and the turfgrass research facility has been improved with the addition of 15,000 square feet of annual bluegrass putting surface and a significant upgrade in equipment. There has been discussion of building a new state-of-the-art education/research facility so we wanted to sit down with Rob and get his plans on moving forward. [continued . . . ]