POGO TurfPro

Meet the Team: Jonathan 🌱

Behind every POGO is a team dedicated to helping turf managers get the most out of their data.

Meet Jonathan, our Regional POGO Sports Turf Business Development Director!

A few quick facts:
• Years at POGO: 1
• Years in turf: 23
• Role at POGO: Supporting our distributors and customers, planning and testing hardware and software improvements, providing product demonstrations, and representing POGO at trade shows
• Favorite POGO feature: The new Live Visual Insight feature, which lets you see your data come to life on the map after just three samples

With more than two decades of experience in turf, Jonathan brings valuable knowledge and perspective to the POGO team. Whether he's supporting customers and distributors, demonstrating POGO in the field, testing new improvements, or connecting with the industry at trade shows, he's helping bring better turf intelligence to more managers every day.

Thank you, Jonathan, for everything you do!

Complete the Picture with POGO + Weather Station 🌱☀️

POGO helps you understand what’s happening below the surface through soil moisture, salinity, EC, and temperature data.

The POGO Weather Station helps you understand what’s happening above the surface with environmental data like rainfall, ET, humidity, wind, temperature, and disease risk conditions.

Together, they provide a more complete understanding of turf conditions so you can:
• Make more informed irrigation decisions
• Better understand turf stress
• Track environmental impacts on performance
• Improve consistency across your property

When soil data and weather data work together, turf management becomes smarter, faster, and more proactive.

One platform. One workflow. A complete picture of your turf.

Stay connected to your turf conditions from anywhere 📡

The POGO Weather Station dashboard gives you access to real-time environmental data directly through TurfPro, helping you monitor conditions without needing to be physically on-site.

View important weather metrics like:
• Rainfall
• Wind speed
• Air temperature
• Humidity
• ET
• Disease risk conditions
• And more

Having remote access to weather conditions helps crews stay informed, respond faster, and make better day-to-day management decisions.

Better visibility leads to better turf management.

Great golf conditions don't happen by accident ⛳

Today is Thank A Superintendent Day, and we're taking a moment to celebrate the men and women who work behind the scenes to create the conditions we all enjoy.

Thank you to every Golf Course Superintendent for your dedication to turf health, sustainability, and the game.

Tag your superintendent and tell them why you appreciate them!

Environmental conditions play a major role in turf performance 🌤️

The POGO Weather Station tracks real-time air temperature and humidity, helping turf managers better understand the conditions affecting turf growth, stress, and recovery.

Monitoring these conditions helps you:
• Better understand environmental stress
• Track changing field conditions
• Support irrigation and maintenance decisions
• Monitor conditions that may contribute to disease pressure

Reliable weather data helps provide the context behind what your turf is experiencing throughout the day.

Better awareness leads to better decisions in the field.

Environmental conditions often signal turf problems before symptoms appear 🌧️

The POGO Weather Station helps monitor weather conditions associated with increased disease pressure, giving turf managers better awareness of developing risks.

Tracking environmental conditions can help you:
• Identify periods favorable for disease development
• Improve preventative planning
• Make more informed management decisions
• Better understand how weather impacts turf stress

When combined with POGO soil data, weather monitoring helps provide a more complete picture of overall turf health conditions.

Early awareness can make a major difference in protecting turf quality and playability.

Take the guesswork out of irrigation with ET data 💧

The POGO Weather Station helps track Evapotranspiration (ET), measuring how much water is being lost from the soil and turf through evaporation and plant use.

Understanding ET helps you:
• Apply water more efficiently
• Reduce overwatering
• Better respond to changing weather conditions
• Improve irrigation timing and consistency

ET gives turf managers a clearer understanding of actual water demand, helping create more informed irrigation strategies throughout the season.

More precise irrigation starts with better environmental data.

Understand how environmental conditions impact playability ☀️

The Globe Temperature sensor on the POGO Weather Station helps measure radiant heat and environmental stress conditions that can affect athletes, golfers, staff, and turf performance.

By monitoring Globe Temperature, you can:
• Better understand heat stress conditions
• Evaluate field and course playability
• Support player and staff safety decisions
• Monitor how environmental heat impacts turf surfaces

Weather conditions affect more than turf health, they affect the overall experience and safety of everyone on the property.

Better environmental awareness helps support better decisions on and off the turf.

Growing Degree Days help turn temperature data into actionable turf insights 🌱

The POGO Weather Station tracks Growing Degree Days (GDD), helping you better understand how heat accumulation affects turf growth and seasonal development.

Instead of relying only on calendar dates, GDD helps you:
• Track turf growth stages more accurately
• Monitor recovery and stress periods
• Better time fertility and cultural practices
• Understand how environmental conditions are impacting development

Because turf responds to temperature, not just time, Growing Degree Days provide a more precise way to plan management decisions throughout the season.

Smarter weather tracking leads to smarter turf management.

Make more confident spray application decisions with real-time wind data 🌬️

The POGO Weather Station tracks wind speed and conditions so you can better determine when it’s safe and effective to spray.

Monitoring wind conditions helps:
• Reduce spray drift
• Improve application accuracy
• Protect surrounding areas
• Avoid wasted product and inconsistent coverage

Having reliable weather data available directly within your TurfPro workflow helps crews make smarter decisions before applications begin.

Better timing. Better efficiency. Better turf management.