The 2008 STMA Field of the Year application is online. Categories for submitting an application include football, soccer, baseball and softball fields in the professional, schools/parks and collegiate categories.
Larry Stowell, Ph.D., PACE Turf’s agronomist and plant pathologist, says that to achieve disease suppression of take-all patch, he recommends that soils contain a minimum of 30 ppm (parts per million) manganese.
A proposal to install synthetic turf football fields at Terre Haute North, South and West Vigo high schools has been scrapped because a committee says it is unable to raise sufficient matching funds.
Synthetic fields have now entered the soccer world and three of the four MLS teams who play their home matches on turf appear to have a bigger advantage than teams who play at home on grass.
A contractor is fighting the University of Hawaii's decision to proceed with repairs to the football team's practice field, delaying the project again.
Voters in the Wappingers Central School District rejected a $175.65 million budget proposal, which included - of keen interest to Goddard -a proposition of $5.56 million for a pair of artificial-turf fields and other athletic improvements.