Turfgrass and Field Maintenance Guides and Painting Strategies

A national professional sports turf grass organization has written the encylopedia on turf management by engaging university researchers, professional grounds maintenance leaders, and commercial enterprises. Here's one of the more recent publications that is receiving a lot of interest.

Sports Turf Managers Association's (STMA's) Synthetic/Natural Turfgrass Guide and Advisory Bulletins.
Determining the right sports field for your athletes. A series of survey questions to help turf managers, facility administrators, school boards and city councils determine the benefit of natural and synthetic turf fields.
Is Your Turf Conditioned for the Season? By Dr. Gil Landry, Jr., University of Georgia, 09/28/01. Just as an athlete's conditioning doesn't show up until the second half or last quarter of a game, good soil conditions often are not apparent until late in the season. Soil aeration is as important to field performance as aerobic conditioning is to an athlete. And just like an athlete, a field can't be conditioned overnight. A field should be on a conditioning program that begins before the season and continues throughout.

Baseball Field Maintenance, A General Guide for Fields of All Levels. A 26 page guide jammed packed with a broad range of information for personal supporting field operations.

Are youth baseball sports your passion? Then check out a major league baseball's initiative to help organizations foster youth development and facility operations. A landscape equipment manufacturer announced its support for the Baseball Tomorrow Fund by donating equipment and discounts for grant recipients.

Tru Mark Field Painting Strategies, learn some of the tips and tricks collected from various sources and condensed into a easy reading tutorial. Four page guide covers the customer, field marking paint, plant growth regulators, precautions, football season preparations, game week activities, field marking tools, paint mixing, field striping, and painting logos from manufactured stencils and do-it-yourself layout.

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