Since the Detroit Tigers ended the regular season last Sunday, Heather Nabozny has had time to accomplish tasks normally considered a luxury. Nabozny, the Tigers' head groundskeeper, and her staff paid extra attention to sculpturing the pitching mounds on the field and in the bullpens at Comerica Park, stenciled the official postseason logos onto the turf and double-cut the outfield grass. She said the perpendicular mowing formed aesthetically pleasing rectangles for television viewers and tighter play for fielders. "It's like vacuuming twice," she added.
Two years ago, fourth-grader Charlie Palminteri had a vision for the concrete-hard, rock strewn Winston Wells Ballfield in Cruz Bay, St. John, Virgin Islands, where he and his friends played baseball. He wanted it green, soft and safe, so he made turf development the subject of his science fair experiment, cultivating test plots of the field's soil to see which mixture of sod, compost and sand would produce the softest results. Since then, and under the tutelage of Dave Minner, a turf specialist from Iowa State University, Charlie has seen the full practical application of his experiment.
The Sports Turf Managers Association's 25th Annual Conference and Exhibition will be held Jan. 21-25, 2014 in San Antonio, TX and will build upon the diversity of educational offerings made available to attendees. Nearly 1,200 sports turf managers – from high schools and parks districts to Major League Baseball and NFL groundskeepers – will converge on the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center for more than 75 hours of sports turf specific education, dedicated networking functions and exhibitor demonstrations.
The Study Guide for the 2014 STMA Student Collegiate Challenge is now available online. Please be sure to thoroughly review it in preparation for the exam. CLICK HERE to access the Study Guide.
The certificate programs are available in construction and general industry. Students can choose from a variety of courses, including occupational safety and health standards for construction or general industry, safety and health management, accident investigation, fall hazard awareness and recordkeeping.
Are you 100% sure you have annual bluegrass? Or could it be rough bluegrass? Annual bluegrass is a common winter annual weed that is very difficult to control as there are limited herbicides that can be POST applied in cool season grasses. Rough bluegrass is very similar to annual bluegrass but it is a perennial weed that reproduces from vegetative tissues instead of seeds. Therefore, our PRE applications will decrease annual bluegrass populations but not rough bluegrass populations.
The purpose of the survey is to gather data to get an idea of cultivation practices implemented at all levels (professional, park and rec., etc.) of athletic field management. The study will look at each level and determine the frequency of cultivation practices, reasons as to why or why not they cultivate, concerns about managing natural turfgrass fields, etc.
The US Environmental Protection agency is unveiling a new online Green Sports Resource Directory that can help teams, venues, and leagues save money and reduce carbon pollution through increased energy efficiency, a key part of President Obama's Climate Action Plan.
For a fourth year THE BOSS Snowplow is pleased to underwrite Project EverGreen's SnowCare for Troops program, a community-based campaign providing active-duty military families currently deployed with snow removal services during the winter months.
Attracting over 200 industry leaders including manufacturers, suppliers, installers, landscape architects and engineers, testing labs, and maintenance equipment and service companies, the STC's 10th Anniversary Celebration and Annual Meeting will feature educational speakers, exhibitor showcase with table-top displays, special events and a pre-conference "Whistle-stop" seminar on landscape recreation synthetic grass.
