field maintenance

winter
January 29, 2024

Football field maintenance during the winter months

The holidays are finally in the rearview. Basketball and other indoor sports are in full swing. All that—coupled with the winter weather—can mean only one thing: It is time to start thinking about your football field.  If that sounds a little...


turfgrass
September 6, 2023

Land-grant university scientists make turfgrass safer, more environmentally-friendly

From elite college football players to those in preschool and elementary soccer leagues, athletes of all skill levels are busy running, kicking and throwing balls across a variety of surfaces. As they compete, players’ bodies often are slammed, ...


turf
May 4, 2021

How Wear-and-Tear Varies Between Turf Types

Talk with anyone who has experience managing, playing on, or dealing with artificial turf, and you might hear a few unfortunate stories about turf fibers disintegrating, splitting and pulling loose, infill splashing and compacting, and other situatio...


field maintenance
April 23, 2020

Summer soccer field maintenance

Healthy, dense natural grass is a key part of the success of any fall soccer field program. Turfgrass maintenance practices on any athletic field is a year-round series of inputs to maintain and increase the quality of grass. Although all maintenance...