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AGS Secure TurfTec Agreement

March 1, 2019/in News, Press Release/by Jamie Bennett

AGS Secure TurfTec Agreement: Advance Grass Solutions Ltd is pleased to announce a UK exclusive agreement to distribute TTI products. Turf Tec International is the leading manufacturer of diagnostic turfgrass tools and environmental test equipment in the world. The company was started by the late Tom Mascaro in 1976 to manufacture tools to benefit Golf […]

Barenbrug’s New Winter Sports Blend

March 1, 2019/in News, Press Release, Sport/by Tam Henderson

Barenbrug’s New Winter Sports Blend: Elite Sport from Barenbrug is the new number one rated Winter Sports blend. The top-performing product blends perennial ryegrasses for the renovation and construction of winter sports pitches. Cultivar trials at the Sports Turf Research Institute (STRI) under the British Society of Plant Breeders (BSPB) protocol analyse the performance of […]

AGS Secure TurfTec Agreement

March 1, 2019/in News, Press Release/by Jamie Bennett

Barenbrug’s New Winter Sports Blend

March 1, 2019/in News, Press Release, Sport/by Tam Henderson

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AGS Secure TurfTec Agreement

March 1, 2019/in News, Press Release/by Jamie Bennett

AGS Secure TurfTec Agreement: Advance Grass Solutions Ltd is pleased to announce a UK exclusive agreement to distribute TTI products.

Turf Tec International is the leading manufacturer of diagnostic turfgrass tools and environmental test equipment in the world. The company was started by the late Tom Mascaro in 1976 to manufacture tools to benefit Golf Course and Sports Turf Managers in everyday maintenance. Tom was best known for his invention of the Aerifier in 1946 and the Verti-Cut in 1955 along with over 100 other turf related inventions.

John Mascaro, Tom’s son, now heads Turf-Tec, and is carrying on the family tradition of introducing innovative tools to aid the Professional Sports Turf Manager. With his insight, Turf-Tec have developed a line of diagnostic instruments for turf that until now were only available to researchers at universities. These instruments are simple to use yet give meaningful results. With over 200 products catalogued for analysis in soil, water, turf nutrition and grass in addition to general turf management products Turf-Tec can provide answers to aid your turf maintenance programmes.

“Turf-Tec International is committed to developing new products and new techniques to keep turf and soil healthy, based upon time-proven methods of finding causes of problems rather than treating symptoms. In the 21^st century scientific analysis and the data it can provide offers Sports Turf Managers greater knowledge to produce increasingly successful results” said Sam Honeyborne, Managing Director at AGS. “Their products are the highest quality, most are made in the USA and all are fully warrantied. “

For more information on the Turf-Tec range please call 0118-3914540 or visit the AGS website.

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Barenbrug’s New Winter Sports Blend

March 1, 2019/in News, Press Release, Sport/by Tam Henderson

Cultivar trials at the Sports Turf Research Institute (STRI) under the British Society of Plant Breeders (BSPB) protocol analyse the performance of sports perennial ryegrasses under intensive wear pressure in line with a winter sports season. The trial plots are sown in spring, and a “wear simulation machine” is applied from autumn through to the following spring. Individual cultivars are replicated three times and scored for traits such as Visual Merit; Live Ground Cover; Shoot Density and Recovery; each scored on a scale of 1-9 (9 is highest).

A ryegrass cultivar must be subjected to three successive wear trials (sports seasons) to be listed in Table S1 of the annual publication “Turfgrass Seed” (aka “the STRI/BSPB booklet”). Table S1 represents a ranking of Mean scores (the combined average of Visual Merit and Live Ground Cover) of approximately 100 perennial ryegrass varieties.

Elite Sport features four of the top-six cultivars in the S1 table and contains 40% by composition of the new #1-ranked Europitch (Mean = 8.1). Overall, the product blend has an outstanding Mean score of 7.92. This score translates into Elite Sport being the industry-leading performing product for winter sports use in the UK.

In addition to performance underwear, the blend has other traits of interest to grounds managers of elite winter sports surfaces. Barcristalla (25% of the mix) is ranked #1 in the top-60 listed varieties for dark green colour and has exceptional Drechslera leaf spot and Fusarium (Microdochium) tolerance (source: turfgrass-list.org). These two factors are particularly important to stadium environments under intensive disease pressure and the scrutiny of high-definition TV cameras.

Three of the four varieties have also been put their paces at Barenbrug’s dedicated UK research station, Cropvale, in Worcestershire. Here, wear simulation is monitored using Digital Image Analysis (DIA) to objectively analyse performance.

Elite Sport is being successfully tested in pilot form at Heart of Midlothian FC, following a full pitch reconstruction in the summer of 2018.

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AGS Secure TurfTec Agreement

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