The American Sports Builders Association has opened its awards program for 2010, which recognizes excellence in athletic facility design and construction. The application documents, available to members only, are now available at www.sportsbuilders.org/
Synthetic turf is quietly encroaching on various areas where once only natural grass would have been considered. Already Russia's national football side plays competitive matches on the synthetic surface of its Luzhniki stadium in Moscow. And in golf, artificial turf is creeping from the practice ranges onto tees and even greens in some new courses.
Jane Arnett was awarded an Honorary Life Membership recognizing her outstanding contributions to the turfgrass industry particularly as it relates to sports turf, and for professionally exemplifying the goals and objectives of the STA.
"The turfgrass industry is a much more sophisticated enterprise today," said Dr. A. J. Turgeon, professor of turfgrass management and director of Penn State's online turfgrass programs. "It takes a new breed of turfgrass manager, one who is more astute about the advancing technologies, to be a proficient manager."
Researchers at Washington State University are working to develop a biodegradable mulch that would provide an alternative to costly and environmentally detrimental plastic mulch.
Come join sports turf managers from all over the state at the Sports Turf Field Day hosted by the Alabama Turfgrass Association at the Orange Beach SportsPlex Wednesday, April 21.
What happens when one of the world's best turfgrass breeding programs meets one of the world's largest zoysiagrass collections? Thanks to the recent agreement between the University of Georgia Research Foundation and Bladerunner Farms, Inc. we'll soon know.
Some fields that incurred damage last fall may be thin or have bare soil in heavy traffic areas. These thin or bare soil areas will quickly become infested with Poa annua, knotweed or crabgrass if a plan is not in place to get desirable grass in those areas as soon as possible.
