Daily News

Crew training session in NY January 27-30

January 9, 2009

Cornell Cooperative Extension of the Capital District will be holding a "Turfgrass Worker Training" on January 27, 28, 29 and 30, 2009.

New STMA Infield Maintenance DVD now available

January 9, 2009

STMA, its charitable foundation SAFE, and the National Interscholastic Association of Athletic Administrators (NIAAA) have teamed up to bring you a valuable educational tool, Maintaining a Baseball or Softball Skinned Infield.

STMA launches 2nd edition of guide

January 9, 2009

A Task Group of the 2008 Information Outreach Committee completed its work to update the STMA publication, A Guide to Synthetic and Natural Turfgrass for Sports Fields.

STMA’s Playing Condition Index is ready to be used on your field

January 9, 2009

The first edition of the STMA Playing Condition Index (PCI) will be unveiled at the upcoming conference in San Jose.

CT will study artificial turf at Montville High School

January 9, 2009

Connecticut announced Friday it will study whether the use of crumb rubber at Montville Public Schools' artificial turf playing fields causes health and environmental problems.

St. Norbert receives $1M sports complex gift

January 9, 2009

St. Norbert College in Wisconsin said that Fred and Carol Wakeman have provided a $1 million gift commitment through a trust toward the construction of the new Donald J. Schneider Outdoor Athletics Complex at the college in De Pere.

Industrial injection in Wyoming

January 9, 2009

For more than a decade, scientists from Exxon Mobil Corp. have been injecting a dense carbon-dioxide mixture deep into the rock beneath southwest Wyoming. The gooey liquefied gases, the unmarketable by-product of fossil fuel exploration, are injected back into the earth for permanent storage inside a dome-shaped geologic structure more than three miles deep.