Gregg Wartgow

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Gregg Wartgow is editor in chief of Green Industry Pros magazine, SnowPRO, Dealer Success Guide, greenindustrypros.com, and related print and digital products.

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A Big Gap in Your Lawn Care Insurance

Does your insurance cover a mishap of pesticides? There’s a good chance that it doesn’t, so you’d better ask your agent.

Lawn Care Tech Spraying

Industry Updates

Faith & Focus Drive Organic Growth

Sales growth seems to come naturally to the Germann brothers, because the last thing they're ever thinking about is growing.

The Germann brothers in 2015 with business consultant Ed Laflamme. From left: Scott and Chris Germann, Ed Laflamme, Philip and Kyle Germann.

Industry Updates

The Organic Opportunity

BeeSafe Organic Lawn Care

Current market share for organic lawn care is still small, but the market opportunity is enormous—for contractors who figure out how to make it work.

NaturaLawn of America is a franchise system with roughly 66 licenses in 24 states. Collectively the company generates annual revenue in excess of $50 million. The company does use some pesticide control products, but its website states that its unique lawn programs have been able to reduce the use of insect and weed control pesticides by over 85%.

Relatively Speaking About Lawn Care

OPINION: The success of an organic/natural, soil health-based lawn care program is really relative to the customer's expectation.

Industry Updates

Getting its Chops Back

Dixie Chopper was almost out of business until Jacobsen swooped in to the rescue. Two years later, is Dixie Chopper back to being Dixie Chopper?

Many workers who left Dixie Chopper during the worst of times have now come back.

Engines, Parts & Shop Equipment

All on the Line

Successful power equipment dealers who have built impressive internet parts operations discuss how they've done it, where things are headed, and how service and expertise are still a dealer's best weapons—even in the online world.

Jacks Small Engines constructed a new, dedicated 20,000-square-foot warehouse in 2009.

Debris Handling

The War on Leaf Blowers

Prominent D.C. writer helping encourage city council to ban use of gas-powered leaf blowers.

Mowing & Maintenance

Stuck in the Middle

Mid-size landscape companies and equipment dealerships are under enormous pressure. Can the Green Industry's middle class survive?

Industry Updates

Eye on Regulations in 2016

Irrigation Association

Part 3: War on water and the managed landscape

John Farner is the government and public affairs director for the Irrigation Association. He is also treasurer and founding member of the Western Agriculture and Conservation Coalition, and was formerly a schedule C political appointee for the President George W. Bush administration.

Industry Updates

Eye on Regulations in 2016

Outdoor Power Equipment Institute (OPEI)

Part 2: Engines, fertilizer, pesticides and pollinators

The EPA is proposing stronger standards for people applying restricted-use pesticides (RUPs).

Industry Updates

Eye on Regulations in 2016

Part 1: Immigration, labor and product safety

Kubota RTV X1140 1 566743ecd3fc2

Mowing & Maintenance

Market Saturation

SOUTHLAND ENGINE COMPANY

Louisiana-based Southland Engine has been strategically opening additional stores every five years—and the kicker is that they're all within 30 miles of one another.

Southland Engine's Broussard store is its newest, opened in 2015.

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