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SAFE Scholarship application deadline is October 15 Posted Date: 9/9/2010 Summary: Winners will also receive complimentary registration to the STMA Conference, three nights lodging while at conference and are recognized during STMA's Annual Awards Banquet. Category: Daily_News
Soccer pitch building grants to be available October 1 Posted Date: 9/9/2010 Summary: The US Soccer Foundation, the major charitable arm of soccer in the United States, is offering grants for soccer field building projects. Category: Daily_News
Garvin named president of the Tree Care Industry Association Posted Date: 9/7/2010 Summary: "We are pleased to announce that the board unanimously agreed to select Mark Garvin as the association's next president," announced Randy Owen, chair of the board of directors. The decision followed an extensive executive search involving internal and external candidates. Category: Daily_News
University of Kentucky to name turf research facility after Dr. A. J. Powell Posted Date: 9/7/2010 Summary: Upon his recent retirement and in honor of Dr. A. J. Powell's years of service and dedication to the turfgrass industry in Kentucky and beyond, the University of Kentucky turfgrass research center at Spindletop is being named for him. Category: Daily_News
Synthetic turf test plots go in at Mizzou Posted Date: 9/7/2010 Summary: At the University of Missouri South Farm in Columbia MU scientists are using a new plot to study five different brands of artificial sports turf. Category: Daily_News
Agrium launches Direct-to-Market Sales Division Posted Date: 9/3/2010 Summary: The Direct Solutions division boasts more than 100 industry professional field representatives across North America who serve the golf, lawn and landscape, nursery and greenhouse market sectors. Category: Daily_News
GCSAA selects Tryon & Heideman to conduct CEO search Posted Date: 9/3/2010 Summary: Golf Course Superintendents Association of America President Jim Fitzroy, CGCS, announced that Kansas City-based Tryon & Heideman, LLC has been appointed to facilitate the selection of a new chief executive officer. Category: Daily_News
Distill, then till: Brown-Forman chef reuses barrels as a garden Posted Date: 9/3/2010 Summary: Gardeners and landscape designers have long had a fondness for reusing old bourbon barrels as planters, but Mark Williams has taken the concept of bourbon-barrel container gardening to new lengths. Category: Daily_News
Machines blast weeds with bursts of steam Posted Date: 9/3/2010 Summary: Green Steam Weed Killers will soon be patrolling the streets of San Francisco, annihilating unwanted weeds without the use of pesticides. Category: Daily_News
Green revolution will force businesses to innovate, or die Posted Date: 9/3/2010 Summary: It's not a revolution until there's blood. Thomas Friedman said as much about the so-called Green Revolution when he spoke in Ann Arbor a couple years ago. An Opinion Category: Daily_News
Rain water used for field irrigation Posted Date: 9/3/2010 Summary: It's amazing what a little rain can do. Carrboro High was built as a green school. Some rainwater is saved to be used in toilets, and other rain is saved to water athletic fields. Category: Daily_News
Schlosser again named PCL Sports Turf Manager of Year Posted Date: 8/30/2010 Summary: Iowa Cubs Head Groundskeeper Chris Schlosser has been named the Pacific Coast League's Sports Turf Manager of the Year for the 2010 season, the league announced Friday. Category: Daily_News
Graves wins GCSAA environmental stewardship award Posted Date: 8/30/2010 Summary: Dean Graves, certified golf course superintendent at Chevy Chase (MD) Club, has been selected to receive the 2011 GCSAA President's Award for Environmental Stewardship. Category: Daily_News
Preparing Oakland Coliseum for some football Posted Date: 8/30/2010 Summary: For the 13th year in a row, Bigge Crane and Rigging is converting the Oakland Alameda County Coliseum from its baseball confines to one set up for football. Category: Daily_News
STMA seeking Board candidates Posted Date: 8/30/2010 Summary: Directors representing the Professional Facilities, Schools K-12, and Commercial membership segments, and one At-Large position are up for election. Category: Daily_News
Turf monster: West Texas A&M opens huge athletics complex Posted Date: 8/30/2010 Summary: This fall the Division II institution will open classes sporting a new $21.8 million athletics complex that features a whopping 19 acres of synthetic turf – the biggest collection of artificial playing surfaces in North America. Category: Daily_News
Integrated Turf Solutions merges with SprinTurf Posted Date: 8/23/2010 Summary: Integrated Turf Solutions (ITS) announced that they had merged with SprinTurf, a marketer and installer of synthetic turf systems. Category: Daily_News
PGMS builds sustainability into Green Star score Posted Date: 8/23/2010 Summary: The Professional Grounds Management Society will incorporate sustainability into the scoring rubric for the annual Green Star Awards program. Category: Daily_News
TURFCO files patent infringement claim Posted Date: 8/23/2010 Summary: TURFCO Manufacturing filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Kentucky-based Lawn Solutions Commercial Products, Inc. Category: Daily_News
Mondo receives US patents on new artificial turf backing Posted Date: 8/23/2010 Summary: Mondo, a global player in the sports flooring market, has received US patents on Thermo-bonded, its new artificial turf backing. Category: Daily_News
New England Grows announces speaker lineup Posted Date: 8/23/2010 Summary: More than 30 ground-breaking educational seminars are planned for New England Grows, the Northeast's premier trade exposition and green industry educational conference, scheduled for February 2 - 4, 2011 at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. Category: Daily_News
Hundreds swap their gas mowers for battery-powered ones Posted Date: 8/16/2010 Summary: Richard Morgan tried and failed to trade his 2000 Toyota in the federal government's "cash for clunkers" program, but on Saturday he got a deal from the state of Maryland that was almost as good. He dumped his gas power mower and replaced it with a brand-new, deeply discounted, battery-powered rig. Category: Daily_News
Landscaping companies wither in severe summer weather Posted Date: 8/16/2010 Summary: The brutal summer heat has cooled demand for many small landscaping businesses, adding distress to a sector already hurt by the recession. Last month, temperatures were above normal along the East Coast and several central U.S. states, with some cities—such as Hartford, Ct, Providence, RI, and Washington—breaking records, according to the National Climatic Data Center. Precipitation levels were also below normal last month throughout most of the Southeast and several states in the upper West Coast, the center says. Category: Daily_News
NY bans phosphorus in lawn fertilizer Posted Date: 8/16/2010 Summary: A new law to improve water quality makes it illegal for stores in New York to stock fresh supplies of household dishwasher detergents that contain phosphorus. Stores have 60 days to sell old inventories. Starting in 2012, a similar ban will apply to lawn fertilizers. Category: Daily_News
Firms spend more on equipment Posted Date: 8/16/2010 Summary: Companies in the US are stepping up purchases of equipment and software at the fastest pace since the late 1990s. But much of the spending is aimed at replacing older equipment after recession-related postponements or to improve efficiency—not to raise production or boost hiring. Category: Daily_News
Neither heat nor drought dooms zoysia lawn Posted Date: 8/16/2010 Summary: Tom Rogers and his yard are the envy of the neighborhood this summer. While surrounding cool-season fescue lawns bake in abnormally dry, hot weather, his warm-season zoysia stays mostly lush and green. Category: Daily_News
Blount buys SpeeCo for $90M Posted Date: 8/11/2010 Summary: Industrial manufacturer Blount International Inc. (BLT) said it acquired a company that makes farm and ranch equipment for $90 million in cash, which it expected would boost profit next year. Category: Daily_News
STMA & ASBA Certification Tests Offered in Austin Posted Date: 8/10/2010 Summary: During the STMA Conference in Austin both STMA and the American Sports Builders Association will be offering its respective certification tests. Deadline to register for these exams with each association is Dec. 15. Category: Daily_News
Nominate for STMA Board positions by Aug. 31 Posted Date: 8/9/2010 Summary: The Interest Form for members to be considered for the STMA Board of Directors Slate of Candidates is due to STMA by Aug. 31. Take advantage of this opportunity to share your leadership expertise or to nominate a deserving peer. Category: Daily_News
Northern Green Expo announces 2011 Minneapolis show dates Posted Date: 8/9/2010 Summary: The Northern Green Expo will bring green industry leaders from five states to the Minneapolis Convention Center on January 5-7, 2011. Category: Daily_News
Irrigation Association refines mission, strategy Posted Date: 8/6/2010 Summary: The Irrigation Association has refined its mission statement and strategic initiatives. This includes the addition of "standards" that will focus on establishing product and practice standards that drive efficient irrigation. Category: Daily_News
When the Greens Go Yellow Posted Date: 8/6/2010 Summary: June, world-wide, was the hottest month ever recorded. Historic low rainfall levels accompanying the heat have hurt crops throughout Europe. It's also been hot in the US with temperature averages for June and July at or near record-high levels across the Eastern Seaboard and in the Midwest. Category: Daily_News
Landscaper calls county chemical rules crazy and sad Posted Date: 8/6/2010 Summary: A veteran landscape contractor says Marin County (CA) herbicide rules are crazy, costly, promote weedy median strip eyesores and are not part of contract specifications. Mike Bauman said his firm had no idea it was breaking county regulations when it applied two pounds of the weed killer Ronstar G to soil in Ignacio median strips as part of a bike path project this summer. Category: Daily_News
Facility management liabilities Posted Date: 8/6/2010 Summary: Facility managers must remain grounded when keeping their sports surfaces safe, or else they may find themselves in a legal quagmire. Category: Daily_News
Moth problem? It may be tropical sod webworm Posted Date: 8/6/2010 Summary: This spring in Naples FL we have had a fairly widespread outbreak of a St. Augustinegrass turf-attacking caterpillar, the TSW: tropical sod webworm. This may have been because of the cold weather killing a parasite or predator that normally keeps this turf-eating caterpillar in check. Or it just may be part of the natural life cycle peaks and valleys of most insect populations. Category: Daily_News
Space Coast Stadium gets OK for new grass Posted Date: 8/6/2010 Summary: After more than 15 years of scorching summer sunshine, torrential downpours and baseball-cleat stompings, the aging playing grass at Space Coast Stadium, spring home of the Washington Nationals, in Viera, FL will be replaced. Category: Daily_News
Result of CT artificial turf study: no elevated health risk Posted Date: 8/2/2010 Summary: A new study of artificial turf fields containing crumb rubber infill conducted by four state agencies shows that health risks are not elevated from playing on the fields. However, higher contaminant levels at one indoor field indicate that ventilation of indoor fields should be considered. Category: Daily_News
Reach more than 100,000 Green Industry decisionmakers Posted Date: 8/2/2010 Summary: Green Media is a business-to-business publisher serving targeted markets in the arboriculture, landscape, outdoor power equipment and sports turf industries. Our goal is to provide relevant content that will enhance our audience's ability to work smarter. Category: Daily_News
Volunteer fans sound off on potential synthetic field at Neyland Posted Date: 8/2/2010 Summary: New football coach Derek Dooley called for a "field turf" to be installed at the University of Tennessee's Neyland Stadium. Apparently his goal is to allow more football to be played there, specifically by high schoolers, which might assist in recruiting. Category: Daily_News
University of Missouri opens new synthetic turf research plots Posted Date: 8/2/2010 Summary: Redexim North America and partners donated 7,200 square feet of synthetic turf for a new research area at the University of Missouri's South Farm. Category: Daily_News
Check for damaged trees after a storm Posted Date: 7/27/2010 Summary: Mark Chisholm, certified arborist and STIHL spokesperson, says, "People are in a rush after a storm and forget to look up and check if there are damaged tree sections teetering overhead." Category: Daily_News
Opinion from Oklahoma: Future water shortages ahead? Blame climate change Posted Date: 7/27/2010 Summary: Since we're among the skeptics on [global warming] we're also skeptical about [this study] and its motives. Nevertheless, water shortages have been a fact of life for Oklahoma and most Western states. Category: Daily_News
Studying toxic microbes in grasses Posted Date: 7/27/2010 Summary: "Sleepy grass," common in many Western states, got its name for a reason. When livestock graze upon it, they go to sleep. More accurately, they freeze in place. Some animals even can die. Category: Daily_News
STEC Equipment named American distributor for TRILO Posted Date: 7/19/2010 Summary: Featuring a comprehensive line of vacuums, blowers, and verti-cutters, TRILO is known all across Europe. Category: Daily_News
STMA member Peruzzi impresses anti-chemical blogger Posted Date: 7/19/2010 Summary: "What caught me a little bit off guard was the fact that this lawn guy was having a little bit of a coming out in front of a crowd and the crowd, including the moderators were almost completely taken off guard." Category: Daily_News
Memphis City Schools board stands ground on turf Posted Date: 7/15/2010 Summary: The city school board deadlocked last week on whether to divert funds from building maintenance to artificial turf for an athletic field. The 3-3 tie means Central High will not get a cash infusion for turf in time for its 100th anniversary homecoming game Sept. 24. Category: Daily_News
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