President’s Message - Raymond Miller

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Howdy Turfgrass Friends,

As we are closing out 2021 and looking forward to 2022, it is natural to review the past year; pandemic, vaccines, labor shortages/wage increases, price increases and supply chain shortages. Most of these issues will unfortunately linger to varied degrees into 2022. Supply chain issue have improved slightly in recent weeks, but experts warn that supplies are not expected to catch up with demand until later in 2022. According to, Texas A&M University’s Dr. Charlie Hall, we should anticipate a good year ahead of us in 2022, but that doesn’t mean businesses should expect a repeat of the historic, pandemic-induced sales booms of 2020 and 2021. Developing relationships with suppliers and customers is critical to working through supply issues. If the Texas Turfgrass Association or I can help you, please let us know.

The Summer TTA Conference was a great success with record attendance, new exhibitors, and new family friendly Putt-Putt golf event. Members were clearly ready to get together in-person and network. Thanks for everyone’s support.

The Winter TTA Conference at the Hyatt Hill Country Resort in San Antonio is fast approaching. The winter conference committees, advisors, and Katie have put together a great event with strong topics, excellent speakers, and lots of opportunities for networking throughout the Winter Conference. We will have the Sporting Clay Event on Monday December 13th in the afternoon. The Corn Hole Tournament and reception on the tradeshow floor will be held Tuesday evening December 14th. Tradeshow time, breaks and education are all networking opportunities to help meet your 2022 needs.

TTA will be presenting awards for outstanding lawn and landscapes, golf courses and sports fields. Come see what your peers are achieving and look for ideas. It is not too early to start planning your award applications for 2022.

TTA will also be electing board members and voting on a proposed change to the regions that will help us maintain a board that best represents the membership in the future.

The conferences and the CPTM program afford you opportunities to develop working relationships with key turf researchers and Texas A&M AgriLife Extension turf specialists. These relationships can be critical to helping you solve problems and to

The TTA is your association and has been working since 1947 (almost 75 years!) to provide quality education and to support turf research. Your involvement with TTA through membership, conference attendance, exhibiting, sponsorship, silent auction, the gun raffle and volunteering for the board helps insure the TTA serves the industry for another 75 years.

In closing, TTA membership and conference participation has many benefits beyond just getting your CEUs. There is still time to register for the TTA Winter Conference and Tradeshow. I look forward to seeing you at Hyatt Hill Country Resort in San Antonio.

Sincerely,