Jerry Spencer BSc Hons Grad Dip
CURRENTLY
Jerry Spencer is the Senior Turf 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. The most recent work is into bioactive compounds.
RESIDES IN
Bowral, NSW, Australia.
EDUCATION
BSC Hons Soil and Land Resources, from Newcastle Upon Tyne University
Grad Diploma Marketing, from UTS, Sydney
EXPERTISE
Jerry has a keen interest in:
Fertilizer production.
Turf grass and plant nutrition.
Pigment chemistry.
Bioactive compounds.
Grass seed for sports turf.
Environmentally friendly solutions to everyday problems.
Soil chemistry and physics.
Environmental Science and weed control.
Jerry Spencer Summary
- 11 years as Head agronomist at Gilba Solutions, with a focus on turf nutrition, pest and turf management problems. Also developed the Vertmax range of Turf pigments, now being marketed in Europe and the UK.
- Eight years as the Product Development Manager (PDM) at Paton Fertilizers.
- Four years at the Sports Turf Research Instutute (UK) as a turf agronomist.
Experience.
Jerry Spencer is the Head Turf Agronomist at Gilba Solutions with over 35 years experience in the turf grass industry in the UK and Australia.
He heads up the turf agronomy services for the company which includes turf and pest management plans, product development and research, soil wetting agent chemistry and turf consultancy services. He also runs the Gilba Turf blog which is a regular look at turf management in Australia.
Prior to Gilba Solutions, Jerry was the PDM at Paton Fertilizers for eight years. Over this time he was responsible for the turf grass and horticultural markets. His focus was slow release fertilizer technology, nitrification inhibitors, and secondary and trace element nutrition.
Previous to this he was the Technical Manager at Arthur Yates and Co (Commercial), with a focus on CRF and SRF nutrition of ornamentals and turfgrass. His portfolio included Nutricote, the BASF Floranid range and Dynamic Lifter.
Before that he was Head of Imaging Technology at Samsung Australia, and developed a mass transit advertising system for public transport with Buspack.
Jerry also served as a Turf Agronomist at The Sports Turf Research Institute (STRI) in the UK for nearly four years. During this time he was the agronomist for the South East of England and contributed to the STRI bulletin.
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.
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