Mark Roberts, a sports turf manager with The Steward School in Richmond, VA was selected as the second of four grand-prize winners in the yearlong "Watch and Win" giveaway from Turface Athletics.
Officials from the Mississippi Development Authority and the state legislature joined employees of Profile Products to commemorate one million consecutive hours without a lost-time accident at the company's manufacturing facility in Blue Mountain, MS. The company reached the milestone on April 8, following a streak that began more than 11 years ago in March 2002.
Bobcat Company has completed a $6.5 million renovation at its Bismarck, ND, production facility. The renovation makes the facility more conducive to Bobcat compact attachment production, which moved to Bismarck as part of an operations expansion last year. It also provides a more collaborative environment for non-production positions.
Hunter has recently launched of the second level of the Hunter Product Specialist Program, the Specialist Level. The curriculum of this level focusses on a specific product and provides a deeper understanding of how the features work as well as how to properly install and configure the product.
Environmental Science, a division of Bayer CropScience LP, announced the inaugural Healthy Turf, Healthy Tomorrow Plant Health Demonstration Courses, which will serve as "living labs" for researchers and superintendents to test plant health technologies in a real-world setting.
Atlanta high school juniors Brendan Rosenberg and Jacob Schlanger took top honors in Brock International's Safety MVP national video contest to showcase why safety is as important as winning to their sports team. As incidents of concussions and brain injuries in youth sports continues to escalate nationwide, Brock launched the effort to recognize US schools that place a high value on student-athlete safety.
Earlier this year Irrigation & Water Technologies took over the manufacturing and distribution of its products in North America. IWT is the inventor of the world-leading Subsurface Textile Irrigation technology sold under the brand names KISSS and Ebb&Flow.
Floratine Products Group announces its pledge to the Wee One Foundation to contribute $50,000 to the foundation over the next 10 years. Floratine bases its donation in response to the organization's campaign to create an endowment fund for the Wee One Foundation to ensure its long-term stability.
Sporturf, an international manufacturer and builder of synthetic turf fields, has significantly expanded its presence in the Midwest with the opening of the company's third regional field office in Kansas City, MO. Sporturf Midwest is under the leadership of President Craig Shonk, and will focus on Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri and Kansas.
Agriguard Company, LLC is pleased to announce sales and distribution expansion for its MultiGuard Protect contact nematicide. The expanded network will provide wider availability across the major nematode-prone regions of North America.
