The Andersons Turf & Specialty Group‘s Humic DG is now available to customers in the Canadian turf, agriculture and horticulture markets. Listed as a registered supplement by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Humic DG is a dispersing granule product that includes fulvic, humic and humin acids. Humic acid is a natural soil conditioner that acts as an organic chelator and microbial stimulator.... read more
Georgia Highlands College’s baseball team is set to open the 2015 season on one of LakePoint Sporting Community‘s synthetic turf fields by Shaw Sports Turf. The school, which doesn’t have its own field, will play its 29 home games at the 13,000-acre sports venue in Emerson, Ga. The team will open on its new home turf on Feb. 6. “The advanced technology... read more
Turface Athletics presented its 2014 field maintenance and scholarship awards at the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) annual luncheon on Jan. 4. in Orlando, Fla. The maintenance awards recognize outstanding field maintenance at the high school and college levels, while the scholarships provide assistance to two schools in need of field improvements. Worcester State University (Mass.) was selected as the... read more
The Sports Turf Managers Association (STMA) has announced its 2015 board of directors, including Allen Johnson, CSFM and fields manager for the Green Bay Packers, as its newly elected president. The board took office at its annual conference, held this year Jan. 13-16 in Denver. Other STMA members elected to the Board include: Jeff Salmond, CSFM, University of Oklahoma, as President-Elect;... read more
The Sports Turf Managers Association‘s (STMA’s) 26th annual Conference & Exhibition, held Jan. 13-16 in Denver, set a record of 200 exhibitors and 1,200 attendees from nine countries. The four-day event was highlighted by the Seminar on Wheels Tour at various professional, collegiate and youth sports fields in the Denver region. Attendees took part in more than 60 educational sessions visited sports turf... read more
