The Sports Turf Managers Association (STMA) announced its 2015 Field of the Year Award winners. Since 1992 the STMA’s Field of the Year Award has been presented to members who manage baseball, football, soccer, softball and other sporting grounds at the professional, collegiate, schools (K-12) and parks and recreation level. The 2015 winners are listed below: Professional Ed Smith Stadium... read more
Profile Products, a portfolio company of Mid Oaks Investments, has been sold to Platte River Equity. Specific terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Brown Gibbons Lang & Company’s (BGL’s) industrials practice and environmental services practice collaborated on the transaction and served as the exclusive financial advisor to the Profile Products, according to a news release from BGL. “BGL’s deep... read more
Turfgrass Producers International (TPI) appointed Eddie Keeven Jr. of Emerald View Turf Farm in O’Fallon, Miss., to the 2014-15 president of the association, effective July 30. The announcement was made during the TPI’s Annual Business Meeting on July 30 in Philadelphia. Keeven and his family have been active members of TPI for more than three decades. During that time, his father, Ed... read more
College football’s second oldest playing field will have a new look by the time the season opener gets underway. The University of Cincinnati is installing new artificial turf on Carson Field in Nippert Stadium. The project, which cost an estimated $600,000, will be completed in time for the Bearcats’s 112th football season and the home opener against Purdue August 31.... read more
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC — Bayer Environmental Science, a business division of Bayer CropScience, LP, has announced that for the 2009 school year, it will again extend the TopChoice insecticide “Protect Against Fire Ants” school program. The program is offered to both private and public secondary school districts for use on school grounds, including athletic fields, and recreation, city, state... read more
