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A Wearing Subject
Recreational turf provides for healthy activities and important entertainment value to society. Unlike ornamental turfgrass on residential and commercial properties,
Natural Grass Or Synthetic Turf?
The good news is that you're acquiring a new multi-sports field. The bad news is that your desk suddenly resembles a city skyline, with different stacks of brochures and catalogues advertising
Biting The Synthetic Bullet
It's 4 p.m. in late October, and it's been raining buckets for most of the day. The phone lines are ringing off the hook. With the crisp air and saturated ground, parents everywhere want to know the s
Multi-Use Fields
When I think of multi-use fields and what it takes to provide a safe and consistent surface, I immediately think strategy—from inception to field maintenance. Athletic fields fail because of the following:
A Tale Of Two Types Of Turf
Multiple factors should be considered when installing playing fields for parks and sports complexes, and chief among them is whether to install synthetic or natural turf. Each type has
Maintenance Pillars For Natural-Grass Athletic Surfaces
Communal spaces unite communities. Athletic surfaces are not solely dedicated fields: In open and flat areas, spontaneous games pop up among friends, families, and sports teams. Facility
Sod Production Services Named Licensing Agent
Stillwater, Okla.--Oklahoma State University has named Sod Production Services the master licensing and marketing agent for Tahoma 31TM Bermudagrass, one of the most winter-hardy
Cultivating Cold-Weather Turf
Contrary to conventional logic, establishing and managing recreational turf for parks, playgrounds, and sports fields is very easy in Alaska. With relatively few diseases and insects
Laying The Ground Rules
Ideally, a successful natural grass-playing surface requires someone in the role of “sports field manager” to make and implement decisions that deliver safe, quality playing surfaces on a consistent basis.
Making Smart Plays
Good planning always contributes to a higher probability of success for any project, and planning for your next multi-purpose athletic-field project is no exception, be it development or redevelopment, natural grass, or synthetic turf.
Simple But Effective
Sports fields are often the focal point of a facility and take the most irrigation per square foot to maintain. Because you want to keep fields in premium condition, there are fewer options for water conservation than with the typical landscape turf.
Destination: Elizabethtown
Elizabethtown Sports Park is a 158-acre, multi-sport and recreation complex designed to provide the city of Elizabethtown, Ky., with a game-changing regional and national sports tourism destination and economic-impact generator.
Rebate For Calif. Turf Pros
Philadelphia, Penn.--FMC Professional Solutions, a business unit of FMC Corporation (NYSE: FMC), is giving California turf professionals the opportunity to save on nutsedge and kyllinga control with