The UT Athletic Department has committed to fund a new faculty member in the turfgrass research and teaching program of the UT Department of Plant Sciences. The UT Athletic Department will donate a total of $535,000 over 5 fiscal years to support the new research and teaching position within the program.
Heritage G fungicide from Syngenta Professional Products has received registration from the U.S. EPA for use on turf, including athletic fields, golf courses, sod farms, residential lawns, commercial lawns, and others.
The Synthetic Turf Council is launching the Search for the Real Field of Dreams, a national contest looking for the high school with the most compelling story about its synthetic turf field.
The Sports Turf Managers Association (STMA) presented its highest honors, the Founders Awards, during the concluding banquet of its annual conference last month.
The Minnesota Twins have hired Larry DiVito to be the head groundskeeper at Target Field. DiVito is the representative for Professional Facilities on the Board of the Sports Turf Managers Association.
The Sports Turf Managers Association held its 20th annual Conference in San José January 13-17, and attendees and commercial partners praised the event and the educational program. Member Mark Holder, Roswell, GA, said, "This was only my second conference and being new in the turf side of things, the education and networking are beyond compare. I have been to numerous other conferences and none of them touch STMA."
The winning team from the Four Year Competition was Pennsylvania State University Blue Team 009, whose members were Tanner Del Valle, Matt Elmore, Nicholas Gialloretto, and Nicholas Leviere. Del Valle and Elmore are the first two students to successfully defend their Student Challenge title.
The cost of replacing more than 22 acres of South Bronx parkland displaced by the new Yankee Stadium has skyrocketed 67 percent to nearly $195 million, according to a new report by the Independent Budget Office.