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County FA award for Beer Groundsman Adkin

BEER Albion Football Club’s Groundsman Peter Adkin has received the prestigious Groundsman of the Year award from the Devon County Football Association writes Richard Honnor. Peter has been maintaining Beer’s football ground for over 20 years and the quality of the playing surface at The Furzebrake is testament to his dedication and skill, all provided […]

Sherwood Forest GC Signs 5-Year Agreement With TORO

Sherwood Forest Golf Club in Nottinghamshire has always chosen not to be tied to any kind of agreement or exclusive machinery deal – until now. Now, the club, who has been a loyal Toro customer for many years, has decided to sign a five-year preferred supplier agreement with Toro and its UK distributor Reesink Turfcare. […]

Groundsmen To Be Judged On Friday

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 Launches New Ryegrass Seed Range

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 […]

All Doe for GKB

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 […]