Jerry Spencer BSc Hons Grad Dip
Currently.
Jerry Spencer is the Senior Turfgrass Agronomist and Sports Turf Consultant at Gilba Solutions. He specialises in turf nutrition, grass seed selection and turf chemical use.
He also oversees and carries out research into practical solutions to turf management problems. His most recent work is into bioactive compounds.
Resides in.
Lives in Bowral, NSW, Australia.
Jerry Spencer Education.
-
Jerry Spencer has a B.Sc (Hons) in Soil and Environmental Science from Newcastle Upon Tyne University with a minor in Tropical Soils. His thesis was on the role of Selenium in pastures.
-
He also has a Graduate Diploma in Marketing from the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia.
Jerry Spencer Expertise.
He has a keen interest in:
- Fertilizer production and manufacture.
- Turf grass and plant nutrition.
- Pigment chemistry.
- Nitrification and urease inhibitors.
- Bioactive compounds.
- Grass seed for sports turf and oversowing options.
- Soil chemistry and physics.
- Environmental Science and weed control.
- Soil wetting agents
Summary of Jerry Spencer
- 11 years as the Head agronomist at Gilba Solutions, with a focus on turf nutrition, pest and turf management.
- Developed the Vertmax range of Turf pigments, now marketed in Australia, Europe and the UK.
- Eight years as the Product Development Manager (PDM) at Paton Fertilizers.
- Jerry Spencer spent four years at the Sports Turf Research Instutute (UK) as a turf agronomist.
Experience.
- Jerry Spencer is a Senior Turf Agronomist with over 35 years experience in the turf industry in the UK and Australia.
- He heads up the turf agronomy services for Gilba Solutions.
- Jerry also runs the Gilba Turf blog which is a regular look at turf management in Australia.
- PDM at Paton Fertilizers for eight years. His focus was slow release fertilizer technology, nitrification inhibitors, and secondary and trace element nutrition.
- Technical Manager at Arthur Yates and Co (Commercial). His focus was on CRF and SRF nutrition of ornamentals and turfgrass. His portfolio included Nutricote, the BASF Floranid range and Dynamic Lifter.
- Head of Imaging Technology at Samsung Australia.
- Turf Agronomist at The Sports Turf Research Institute (STRI) in the UK.
Latest Articles from Jerry Spencer.
Below is a selection of the latest publications and articles in the UK and Australia.
