INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Green Expo (IGE), Jan. 6-8 at the Indianapolis Convention Center, is Indiana’s most comprehensive green industry educational conference and trade show. The IGE features approximately 300 exhibit booths and 2,500 attendees from Indiana and the surrounding states which include business owners, managers and staff of wholesale and retail nurseries, landscape management firms, greenhouse growers, golf course... read more
By: Ron Hall “In managing turfgrass, your only goal is perfection. The closer you get to perfection, the more obvious your imperfections and the more difficult and more expensive they are to correct. If you keep that in perspective, you will keep your sanity.” — James Beard, Ph.D., president and chief researcher for the International Sports Turf Institute The approaching Sports Turf... read more
CLEVELAND – In January 2009, Pioneer Athletics introduced the Brite Stripe Ultra-Friendly product line, the first-ever field paint designated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) “Design for the Environment” product. On Nov. 17, Pioneer announced a second EPA-recognized paint named Star Line Ultra Friendly, the companion product to its paint-in-a-box sprayer, the Star Striper. Just like Pioneer’s previously released... read more
By: Jim Novak, Turfgrass Producers International Although this photo of a soldier using scissors to trim grass on a tiny plot of turf at what appears to be some remote location has been circulating on the internet for several years; who and where the soldier is has been a mystery. The soldier has been identified on various web sites as an... read more
HOLLAND, MI — The setting seemed incongruous. Here was Dr. James “Jim” Beard, who has spent more than a half century researching turfgrass and educating the world Dr. Jim Beard at Hope College’s new Van Andel Stadium (image courtesy of MiSTMA) about its care, speaking to a group of about 90 sports turf and grounds pros in front of one... read more
