Producing the top-quality turf needed for high-level sports requires a keen focus on turf maintenance and inputs. All applications of water and nutrients should be optimised to ensure responsible resource-use efficiency.
The new National Indoor Arena at the Sport Ireland Campus has officially been opened. SIS Pitches and Prunty Pitches have worked together to install the impressive pitch and running track at the EUR 3million air dome facility.
STRI Group has launched TurfSync, a programme that connects the team and players to the surface they are playing on. The programme also provides stadium operators with important management data.
The severe drought in 2017 made Castelconturbia Golf Course in Italy decide to invest in a new irrigation system. New Rain Bird technology now see to it that the golf course is always in good condition.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino and Remy Rioux, chief executive of the French Development Agency (AFD) have signed an agreement to promote women’s football and develop school football in Africa.
Torfaen citizens have voiced their concern about the decline in football fields in its constituency. Since 2009 they have lost 30 council-owned football fields. Elsewhere in Wales the trend is happening too.