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Preview of 42nd Annual Ohio Turfgrass Conference
The 42nd annual Ohio Turfgrass Conference is 3 months away! December 8-11, Greater Columbus Convention Center will be the place to be for turf and landscape professionals.
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Syngenta, John Deere Landscapes sign agreement
Syngenta Professional Products announced today both a Distributor Agreement and an Agency Agreement with John Deere Landscapes for Syngenta's products beginning October 1, 2008.
Scientific bermudagrass winter overseeding solution
Barenbrug and Texas A&M University have developed a revolutionary new concept in overseeding.
Henderson updating softball diamonds
The project is funded by the Southern Nevada Public Lands Management Act and will go toward re-turfing the fields with new grass, providing shaded bleachers and new outfield netting to protect spectators.
Dr. Al Turgeon to keynote Ohio Turfgrass Conference
Turgeon’s presentation Implications of Global Warming: Cultural Relief and Future Management Strategies will review current projections of global warming, explain the scientific basis for these projections, and propose management strategies for developing and maintaining golf, sports, and lawn turfs, given the climatic changes that may occur over time.
America’s first human-powered gym
This gym, which launched a week ago, boasts an opposite approach: The gym's human users actually power the equipment through their exercise.
Enter 2008 STMA Field of the Year competition
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.
White paper on soil monitoring now available
Guidelines for Successful Soil Temperature Monitoring, provides guidance and tips on how data loggers can be effectively used to monitor soil temperatures in various conditions.
Prevent turf disease with manganese
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.
Does synthetic turf give MLS teams big home-field advantage?
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.