Ken Kline has been named technical/sales training manager of the Toro Company’s Irrigation Division in Riverside, California. Kline will be responsible for developing and implementing a formal training plan, for the division and has eight years of teaching experience in irrigation installation, design and ornamental horticulture principles at Cal Poly, State University in San Luis Obispo, California. Toro also announces the appointment of Wade E. Terry as the new director of sales. Terry, who joined Toro in 1970, will be responsible for managing company sales, programs through distributor, specification and golf sales forces.

Dave Neal has been promoted to vice president of construction at Landform Industries, where he has been since the company’s conception. Neal has been in the landscaping industry for 24 years.

Bill Tullos, a former Rain Bird district manager for Texas and Oklahoma and a licensed Texas irrigator, has been named the new North/ Central Florida district manager for the company’s Turf Division. Tullos will provide sales support to Rain Bird distributors and contractors and serve as liaison between the company’s management and landscape architects, irrigation consultants and city/county officials.