Jon Dykes
Oct 27, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min · 15 segments
Jon Dykes went from the MMA cage to the golf course, and he's built quite a career along the way. A former amateur MMA and jiu jitsu fighter from West London, Jon found his way into greenkeeping…
Oct 27, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min · 15 segments
Jon Dykes went from the MMA cage to the golf course, and he's built quite a career along the way. A former amateur MMA and jiu jitsu fighter from West London, Jon found his way into greenkeeping…
Adam CourchaineHostDan PetersonHost
Richard MilkoHostTony Goldsby
We are back with another Ask the Agronomist segment featuring PhD agronomist Tony Goldsby from the Andersons.
What cultural practices will you be preparing to handle the El Nino for this upcoming winter?
And thanks again for all the great end user questions we're always getting.
This one from Gina this week and honestly was a topic that Adam and I were just discussing recently.
So, you know, really El Nino changes a lot of the odds in terms of where the weather is going to show up and how it's going to show up.
But it doesn't necessarily obviously produce the same winter all over the U.S.
So for, you know, all of our individual listeners, users that are listening out there, I would probably start more with like a regional outlook and how is the El Nino actually going to impact you and your local area and Yeah, and for, you know, our area, we're out here in Kansas City in the Midwest, they're saying, you know, it's probably going to be a little bit warmer and a little bit more moisture, right? But there's probably areas within the U.S.
that are going to be facing more drought, certainly up in Adams Neck of the Woods, right? They're always facing some amount of snow cover.
So is that, you know, snow cover going to be longer this year? Is it going to be maybe a little bit more abbreviated? And then therefore, you know, what impact is that going to have on your disease, you know, cycles that are going to be occurring? So I think Universal priorities regardless of where you're at and impact obviously with the water piece is going to be drainage and making sure that you're top of mind on that and the water is getting off the course in the places that you want it to, especially if it's heavier than what you would normally see that time of year.
Really avoid pushing that late season growth and making sure you're getting those healthy carbohydrate reserves that are really focused on that root development.
um controlling their thatch right not letting it get you know too crazy towards the end of the the season here and then you know really really forecasting that disease prevention piece of it so you know i know getting adam you guys probably pretty much are getting ready for doing small snow mold prevention type fungicides here before we know it with the weather um obviously this is not going to be the year you want to skip on those not that you ever would anyways but especially with el nino water you know moisture pressures um certainly going to be a bigger factor probably than it is even in a high pressure normal situation so your goal really should be regardless of the region that you're in and impact you know have healthy resilient turf that you can be flexible with and you know don't necessarily manage all of the the the turf's country if you will to one el nino weather pattern so um hopefully uh most of you will just be enjoying a little bit warmer uh weather or a little bit letter better late season golf uh like we're getting here in the midwest so far
This wraps up another Ask the Agronomist segment featuring Dr. Tony Goldsby from the Andersons.
We are back with another Ask the Agronomist segment featuring PhD agronomist Tony Goldsby from the Andersons.
What cultural practices will you be preparing to handle the El Nino for this upcoming winter?
And thanks again for all the great end user questions we're always getting.
This one from Gina this week and honestly was a topic that Adam and I were just discussing recently.
So, you know, really El Nino changes a lot of the odds in terms of where the weather is going to show up and how it's going to show up.
But it doesn't necessarily obviously produce the same winter all over the U.S.
So for, you know, all of our individual listeners, users that are listening out there, I would probably start more with like a regional outlook and how is the El Nino actually going to impact you and your local area and Yeah, and for, you know, our area, we're out here in Kansas City in the Midwest, they're saying, you know, it's probably going to be a little bit warmer and a little bit more moisture, right? But there's probably areas within the U.S.
that are going to be facing more drought, certainly up in Adams Neck of the Woods, right? They're always facing some amount of snow cover.
So is that, you know, snow cover going to be longer this year? Is it going to be maybe a little bit more abbreviated? And then therefore, you know, what impact is that going to have on your disease, you know, cycles that are going to be occurring? So I think Universal priorities regardless of where you're at and impact obviously with the water piece is going to be drainage and making sure that you're top of mind on that and the water is getting off the course in the places that you want it to, especially if it's heavier than what you would normally see that time of year.
Really avoid pushing that late season growth and making sure you're getting those healthy carbohydrate reserves that are really focused on that root development.
um controlling their thatch right not letting it get you know too crazy towards the end of the the season here and then you know really really forecasting that disease prevention piece of it so you know i know getting adam you guys probably pretty much are getting ready for doing small snow mold prevention type fungicides here before we know it with the weather um obviously this is not going to be the year you want to skip on those not that you ever would anyways but especially with el nino water you know moisture pressures um certainly going to be a bigger factor probably than it is even in a high pressure normal situation so your goal really should be regardless of the region that you're in and impact you know have healthy resilient turf that you can be flexible with and you know don't necessarily manage all of the the the turf's country if you will to one el nino weather pattern so um hopefully uh most of you will just be enjoying a little bit warmer uh weather or a little bit letter better late season golf uh like we're getting here in the midwest so far
This wraps up another Ask the Agronomist segment featuring Dr. Tony Goldsby from the Andersons.
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