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Q: Our irrigation water was recently tested and found to be slightly salty. This situation is all new to me. Is there anything we can do considering that this is our only irrigation water source? A: Good water quality is...

The Sports Field Management Association (SFMA) recently named Nick Miller, field and grounds coordinator for the City of Aurora Parks and Recreation Department (Aurora, Ohio), as the winner of the 2022 SFMA Mowing Patterns Contest. The winning field is located...

By Steve Peeler, CSFM Sports facilities come in all different levels of play, size and types of events that occur. Regardless of level of play, type of sport played or other events, there is one thing that they all have...

[Editor’s Note: This article was provided by Sod Solutions, and was written by Cecilia Brown, media and content manager.] Most people take old desk supplies or some new ideas with them from one job to the next. But Nashville Soccer...

By Kelly Rensel, CSFM Over the last 20 years or so, the game of baseball has drastically become more data driven. Launch angle, velo and spin rate have now entered the baseball lexicon, and have driven a wedge between baseball...

By Mary Helen Sprecher It might have been fueled by the pandemic – when people rediscovered outdoor exercise in municipal parks and were looking for things to do with their families – but disc golf’s growth has continued. The sport...

By Conlan Burbrink, M.S., Weston Floyd, CSFM, Athol Thomson, Ph.D., Steven Riechman, Ph.D., and Chase Straw, Ph.D. Measuring sports field characteristics (e.g., surface hardness, soil moisture, etc.) can provide valuable information to guide management toward the safest, most consistent and...

By John C. Fech and Brad Jakubowski If there’s one thing that all sports field managers utilize on a regular basis, it’s aeration. Of course, there are a lot of considerations, techniques and timing issues to contemplate for each field....

Q: Last year following renovation of our skinned areas, we laid several sod widths of a new bermudagrass cultivar rather than going back in with Tifway. We have noticed it seems to be holding that same width although we have...