It's a scene right out of a public-relations professional's dream. Multicultural legions of children, clad in miniature replicas of Manchester City's recognizable baby-blue jerseys and flanked by their adoring parents and teachers, have flocked to the ceremonial groundbreaking on a sunny spring afternoon in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, DC. Reporters and camera crews from local media outlets are here as well, along with an array of dignitaries and local politicians, including Mayor Vincent Gray.
"There's a lot of people that think synthetic is the only option," the veteran groundskeeper told MLSsoccer.com last week in a discussion about the rise of artificial turf in North American soccer. "They don't even know that there are trained professionals out there that know how to maintain [grass] fields at a high level."
The US government's latest report on the mysterious disappearance of honeybees points to a parasitic mite as the biggest factor behind colony collapse disorder and downplays the role of controversial pesticides that European officials are planning to ban. Last week's report from the EPA and the Department of Agriculture says there should be further research into the effects of those nerve-agent pesticides, known as neonicotinoids. But it says the studies so far have not shown it to be the biggest hazard facing the bees.
Spring gardeners, lawn manicurists and nursery folk of all varieties on the hunt for cheap fertilizer this planting season need look no farther than Greenfield's (IN) wastewater treatment facility, where there is an ample supply that will not run out anytime soon. Stored in two open-air storage barns, numerous 12-foot-high piles of "Class A" biosolids processed from the treatment plant stand ready to be applied to area lawns, gardens and farms instead of being transported to the landfill.
It's been 5 weeks since the Universe KORO Field Topmaker rotor made its debut "cleaning out" bermudagrass in Dallas. The weather could not have been more challenging for re-growth with the continued cold and prolonged bermuda dormancy period in the south. But that challenging weather makes the results of the re-growth even more amazing.
The Sports Turf Managers Association has just released a 20-page members-only Advocacy Manual that aims to assist those in the sports field industry with community and state government public policy advocacy efforts, both proactive and reactive.
Injury on the playing field often is caused by the interaction between the athlete's shoe and the field surface. In a literature review appearing in the May 2013 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, researchers shed light on the evolution of synthetic playing surfaces. The study summarizes the existing research on artificial turf and the role of shoe-surface interface in injury.
TURFAX was prepared by Dr. James B Beard of International Sports Turf Institute, Inc. with the intended goal to "provide international turf specialists with a network for current information about turf." TURFAX ran from 1993-2002, and although it originated as a faxed document to International Sports Turf Institute Affiliates, it later expanded to a printed and mailed publication.
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