Caleb Swanson

@TravisShaddox Do magnetized water next

This is the 4th paper that concluded oxygenated nanobubbles do not benefit turfgrass. Learn more about the nanobubble scam at @TurfgrassEpistemology" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@TurfgrassEpis… doi.org/10.21273/HORTS…

This may be the best tweet of all time

@BendelowGreens Most of those that purchased in traditional early order periods should be fine with fert and chem. Fuel is a wild card- even at contracted prices contracts can be negated by force majeure. If prolonged conflict and supply issues continue, the cruch will certainly be felt in 2027

Not much chatter on X but wondering what you supers are thinking about grounds budgets for the season? Between fuel and chemicals…..budgets have to be getting blown up about right now? Assume lots have stuff contracted but still a lot of exposure?

Urea vs. Amino Acids. All that matters is nitrogen. If applied correctly, any nitrogen source yields good turf. The real question: cost vs. urea. #TurfCare #GardeningTips @FoliarPak Full Video: youtube.com/live/TF17EIz7p…

Was honored to attend the Eastern Iowa Regional Agriculture Advisory Council annual meeting for a 2nd yr to support Career and Technical Education in Eastern Ia. Showcased the Golf Course Management career path and present on the partnerships we at Crow Valley have made with local schools FFA and Horticulture programs. @CentralDeWitt @NorthScottAg Excited to work with @GcsaIowa and schools from all across the State to get a turfgrass curriculum into their schools! Thanks to @bonkersforiowa @AlexJStuedemann @ThomsTurf for representing our industry with me.

Congrats to Ben Roos @BriarwoodAnkeny for being selected as the Iowa GCSA 18-Hole Superintendent Of The Year for 2025! Way to go Ben - let the bragging rights begin 😉 Award sponsored by @turfwerksinc

I think I’m watching ISU getting fucked by Vegas.

Helping out some friends here; they have purchased and starting back up DryJect servicing Mn, Ia, SD and ND. Great group of people, if u have interest shot me a DM and I can get them in touch. americanpeattech.com/dryject?fbclid…

For a century, this ground has carried the game. The original clubhouse was simple, built with purpose. When we began designing The Silo Club, we didn’t want to replace that story. We wanted to carry it forward. Details inspired by what once stood here, reimagined for the next generation. #thesiloclub

@TravisShaddox @LebTurf Can we just make this standard so we don’t have 15 million different fertilizer blends? It’s a SKU management and bid shuffle nightmare.

Fertilizer fillers? Lebanon Turf claims they're unavoidable and necessary. That's 100% BS. Don't fall for misinformation in the turfgrass industry. #TurfCare @LebTurf Full Video: youtube.com/live/ubB7Z_22M…

@Griffengator01 Big 12 giving 90’s nba vibes. Sit back and enjoy it, bud. I did. Let em play, AFD.

Hilton complaining about calls against State/no calls when both sides are real touchy. Playing tough and refs letting it go. No need to boo when you miss a shot and don’t get the rebound.

There’s something equally important to attorney-client privilege and that is confidentiality in general. How many white collar workers are currently feverishly uploading decks, models, PDFs and otherwise confidential work product into public LLMs trying to do their job better or otherwise get an edge right now? Non-zero. How will this work, then, when a company claims copyright or confidentiality violations because it turns out an employee broke their employee agreement when using one of these tools. But, then what? Do the tools purge that information? Can you undo any prompt/response meta data? Agent traces? Of course not. When technology innovations meet established regulations, regulations usually win. Corporations will need to adapt to the ruling below and extend its implications beyond A/C Priv to everyday work.

One photo says it all... @osubeaverturf @WCTA_social

@nbolhous @Sam_Schmidt_APT @TurfTank @chuck_stccc @AgLeaderTech @shullzy has PLENTY of hats leftover

@Sam_Schmidt_APT @TurfTank @chuck_stccc @calebspackler @AgLeaderTech I’ll wait here.

@AgLeaderTech makes sprayer boundary management easy peasy.

New post-construction photos are now live at siloclub.com. While work continues ahead of opening, the progress made over the past year speaks for itself. Every detail is coming together, and what’s ahead promises to be something truly special. #SiloClub

@SaveAmericaNew You can’t have subsidies and low costs in the same market.

🚨Reporter: 22 million Americans are expected to see their health care insurance premiums rise Trump: Because Obamacare is so bad. Reporter: Because the subsidies are expiring. What’s your level of supporting Trump's Words? A)25% B)50% C)75% D)100%

@trekeitheon 6. Tees are hitting mats on concrete pads. No tee markers, nothing to mow around 7. All playable areas are mowed at fwy height, all non playable are actual fescue, you can still find a ball 8. All bunkers are flat bottoms, faces are sod stack with old fake turf- no edging needed

If I’m building a golf course today, these are the 5 non negotiables. 1. No residential housing 2. No carts 3. Club house between first nine and second nine 4. At least one Turtle back and one bowl green 5. At least one drivable par 4 What am I missing?

@SteveDHink @mattvanwinkle The whole crowd chanted “fuck the Hawks”

GOATED BEFORE HE EVEN COACHES A GAME

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I told everyone it would "10x productivity." That's not a real number. But it sounds like one. HR asked how we'd measure the 10x. I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards." They stopped asking. Three months later I checked the usage reports. 47 people had opened it. 12 had used it more than once. One of them was me. I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds. It took 45 seconds. Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations. But I called it a "pilot success." Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail. The CFO asked about ROI. I showed him a graph. The graph went up and to the right. It measured "AI enablement." I made that metric up. He nodded approvingly. We're "AI-enabled" now. I don't know what that means. But it's in our investor deck. A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT. I said we needed "enterprise-grade security." He asked what that meant. I said "compliance." He asked which compliance. I said "all of them." He looked skeptical. I scheduled him for a "career development conversation." He stopped asking questions. Microsoft sent a case study team. They wanted to feature us as a success story. I told them we "saved 40,000 hours." I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up. They didn't verify it. They never do. Now we're on Microsoft's website. "Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot." The CEO shared it on LinkedIn. He got 3,000 likes. He's never used Copilot. None of the executives have. We have an exemption. "Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction." I wrote that policy. The licenses renew next month. I'm requesting an expansion. 5,000 more seats. We haven't used the first 4,000. But this time we'll "drive adoption." Adoption means mandatory training. Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches. But completion will be tracked. Completion is a metric. Metrics go in dashboards. Dashboards go in board presentations. Board presentations get me promoted. I'll be SVP by Q3. I still don't know what Copilot does. But I know what it's for. It's for showing we're "investing in AI." Investment means spending. Spending means commitment. Commitment means we're serious about the future. The future is whatever I say it is. As long as the graph goes up and to the right.