field maintenance
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...
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, ...
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...
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...