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
By: Ron Hall HOLLAND, MI — If you want to know what’s going on with your turfgrass sports field, start poking around underground and examining plant roots and the soil they’re growing in. “In managing turfgrass, your only goal is perfection,” said Beard. “The closer you get to perfection, the more obvious your imperfections,” If you want to improve your... read more
UNION, IL — Team REIL Inc., the sole recommended supplier of sports field and recreation equipment to the 11 universities of the Big Ten conference, is now making its “one-stop-shop” service available to U.S. colleges and universities nationwide. Partnering with the Big Ten Conference, Team REIL Inc. is the point-of-contact for athletic directors and facilities managers of the conference’s 270... read more
GREENSBORO, NC — A new simplified year-long purchase program now available from Syngenta Lawn & Garden is designed to provide maximum flexibility to professional lawn care operators and sod growers. The Syngenta GreenTrust 365 Purchase Program, effective Oct. 1, 2009, will provide incentives through September 2010, with additional bonuses for purchases made through Feb. 26, 2010. In addition to the... read more
