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Kevin Butler: From Placekicking to Water Conservation with UgMo Technologies
Given the confluence of tightening budgets and more prevalent water restrictions across the country, municipalities and sports turf managers now have increasing access to systems that determine when to...
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Treading Water: Handling Drainage Problems on Athletic Fields
What’s one sign that you might have a drainage problem? “In April, when you’re playing baseball…if a player hits a ball into the outfield, you know you have a problem when you see the ball floating!”...
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Talking: Irrigation
We asked experts from several leading companies: How does your company help sports turf managers implement efficient irrigation practices and subsequently maintain healthy turf? Tom Matt Northeast...
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Irrigation Agronomics & Sports Turf
Water is absolutely necessary, not only for the growth of grass on an athletic field, but also to condition the grass to handle traffic and recover from injury. Not enough water is bad, as is too much...
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Examining the Benefits of Sand-Slit Drainage Systems
The evacuation of excess moisture is paramount to the success of an athletic field. We know that a field with a small amount of organics, or top soil, generally tends to be better at binding more...
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Using Water Wisely
The human brain is 95 percent water — which means that just thinking about how important water is requires water. Of course, there are a whole host of reasons beyond mere human survival to conserve...
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Balancing the Water Budget
Water is critical in maintaining healthy turfgrass. The water budget for an athletic field is like a bank account with deposits and withdrawals. The soil is the bank. Deposits are made by rain (in some...
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When Overwatering Fields Becomes Problematic
Too much of anything is rarely a good thing — this is the certainly the case with turfgrass irrigation. Healthy stands of turfgrass rely on just the right amount of water. With that being said, too...
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Environmental Stewardship & Water Conservation
One of the sports turf manager’s most important roles is that of an environmental steward. What exactly does that mean? According to the Environmental Protection Agency, “Environmental stewardship is...
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Back to Basics: Irrigation Techniques 101
DIGGING IN Irrigation puts you in control of the vital, nonrenewable resource that is water. It’s simple: Water is essential for plant growth. Turfgrasses are plants. Turfgrasses provide the playing...
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Winterizing Irrigation Systems
One of the last maintenance procedures to accomplish before the field rests for the winter is to winterize it, to make sure it is ready to experience whatever Mother Nature throws at it over the next...
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Managing Microenvironments in Turfgrass
One of the many things that complicate the job of an athletic turf manager is that in most cases, not all of the turf on a given property is grown under exactly the same conditions. Whether it’s...
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