THREE groundsmen will go head-to-head on Friday to see who will be crowned the Suffolk FA Groundsman of the Year for 2017. The competition is open to clubs at Step 7 and below, and the Judging Panel will be visiting Bacton United 89, Claydon and Old Newton United, before deciding the winning club. Ransomes Jacobsen, […]
Rigby Taylor, the company at the forefront of supplying innovative products for the successful management and maintenance of turf surfaces, has introduced eight new grass seed mixtures featuring tetraploid technology ryegrasses, all with Germin-8 liquid seed treatment. The new tetraploid grasses boast double the number of chromosones compared to diploid perennial ryegrass – which increases […]
Ernest Doe are expanding their successful hire fleet to introduce a whole range of specialist turf machinery for groundsmen and greenkeepers. Whilst the company covers the whole country, over six hundred golf clubs in their immediate territory put aerators and sandfillers high on their list of priorities for equipment. A visit to the new, state-of-the-art […]
A cleaner at a school on Australia’s Gold Coast has been awarded more than $156,000 in compensation after workmates led him to believe there had been a “sex romp” in the staffroom as a practical joke. Lawyers for Shane Green, a cleaner at Helensvale state school, said he was shocked to find dishevelled bedclothes, empty […]
Storms in December 2015 linked to climate change caused more than £3.5m worth of damage to cricket clubs in the UK, says a report. Two clubs, Sowerby Bridge in West Yorkshire and Appleby Eden in Cumbria, have yet to return to their grounds. And 130-year-old Corbridge Cricket Club had to have their clubhouse demolished as […]
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