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In the deep mid winter...

As a nation we Brits are obsessed with the weather. It’s too hot, too cold, too wet, but never ‘just right’. And, with the media getting apoplectic about the recent ‘big freeze’, causing panic buying and empty supermarket shelves, just what is going on with our weather patterns, climate change and global warming?

Best of the Rest - Peter Britton - 3 hours ago

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Aiming for the Perfect Pitch

Spring! The time of year when all groundsmen fear the sound of Big Bertha cranking into gear. Yes it’s time, to dust down the cobwebs and stoke up the coals, for she is about to roll.

Cricket - Bob Stretton - 1 day ago

Club Love

This article covers the trials and tribulations of running a small amateur sports club in today’s environment. In my case, the sport is rugby union, although many of the problems and uphill battles we face could apply to most other sports clubs that have their own facilities.

Rugby - Editor - 2 days ago

DLF-Trifolium notch up record entry in turfgrass seed source
Industry - Greg Rhodes - 35 minutes ago

Rescue remedy at Chestfield Golf Club
Scotts News - Ellie Tait - 19 hours ago

Lancashire club among first to secure new Wiedenmann Terra Float and Terra Seed
Industry - Val Graham - 23 hours ago

The challenge of change
Golf - Steve Mitchell - 24 hours ago

Revolutionary New Lawn Care Arrives
Industry - Andrew Turnbull - 2 days ago

Nia Expands Knowledge at Headland
Industry - Carol Dutton - 2 days ago

Grounds for satisfaction
Cricket - Press Release - 3 days ago

An Evening with Keith Kent at Moseley Rugby Club
Rugby - Press Release - 3 days ago

Can you afford not to maintain your synthetic sports surface?
Synthetics - Technical Surfaces - 3 days ago

Thaw's for thought!
General Sports - Dave Saltman - 3 days ago

Souters Sports Launch New Irrigation Division
Industry - Press Release - 4 days ago

Flexible Finance From TORO
Industry - Amy Ellingham - 4 days ago

New ProShield bolsters armoury in fight against difficult weeds
Scotts News - Ellie Tait - 4 days ago

More Brains - Less Water
Golf - Steve Mitchell - 4 days ago

C & M Golf and Grounds are Jacobsen's Dealer of the year 2009
Industry - Peter Driver - 5 days ago

Crocodile Golf set for Viking Invasion!
Golf - Phil Evans - 5 days ago

A baptism of snow!
Football - Laurence Gale MSc - 5 days ago

David James tries to pay sacked Portsmouth staff's wages
Football - Press Release - 6 days ago - 1 comment

Wilderness gets watering down to a Tee with TORO
Industry - Amy Ellingham - 6 days ago

School sports equipment supplier now safest in field
Industry - Press Release - 6 days ago

Polaris Ranger 400 Small but perfectly formed
Industry - Press Release - 6 days ago

Winter of discontent for golf clubs
Golf - Press Release - 6 days ago

March Football Diary 2010
Football - Malcolm Gardner - 7 days ago

Verti-Drain offers heavy duty solution to festival impact
Industry - Gregg Doggett - 7 days ago

Fast Wiedenmann Terra Spikes extend ‘windows of opportunity’ for under-pressure turf professionals
Industry - Val Graham - 7 days ago

The future of our Industry
General News - Dave Saltman - 1 week ago - 4 comments

Hamilton Golf Club mark new Wiedenmann Terra Spike GXi8 HD “as excellent”
Industry - Val Graham - 1 week ago

Zero per cent finance on commercial mowers
Industry - Steve Mitchell - 1 week ago

Taking the Mickey!
Consultancy - Andy Bedoes - 1 week ago - 1 comment

New Mastenbroek for Bauma (Stand No N1014/3)
Industry - Press Release - 1 week ago

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Ariens Twin Wheel Banks Mower

Mowers - Other - £4500.00

Earth Quake T155 De-Compactor

Aerators - £7250.00

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Mowers - Cylinder - £1750.00

John Deere 365

Mowers - Gang - £1800.00

Ransomes Petrol Self Propelled Lawn Mower
Mowers - 6d 02h 25m

Ransomes 20 inch Marquis
Aerators, Scarifiers & Rotovators - 6d 05h 30m

SCARIFIER BOB ANDREWS / ALLEN
Cricket - martin livermore - 15 minutes ago (1 reply)

Offsetting Tracks
Cricket - Steve_D - 41 minutes ago (5 replies)

I love the lottery!
Cricket - barry glynn - 1 hour ago (10 replies)

Granular pesticide application
Natural Turf - Martin Wythe - 1 hour ago (3 replies)

Residential - Grass Seed Recommendations
Turf Products - Louisa Croft - 11 hours ago (14 replies)

verti drain
Football - christopher birks - 13 hours ago (2 replies)

Soil analysis report - cricket square
Cricket - EDS - 1 day ago (49 replies)

What hose?
Irrigation - jontaylor - 1 day ago (12 replies)

red thread, lack of growth and psr
Cricket - barry glynn - 1 day ago (55 replies)

Champion.
Other Sports - Vic Demain - 2 days ago

24th Mar 2010
Campey football pitch renovation demo day
Real Sociedad S.A.D., Spain

30th Mar 2010
Campey football pitch renovation day
Espace sportif Jacques Roux, Toulon, France

7th Apr 2010
Campey football pitch renovation day
Brescia, Italy

12th Apr 2010
Campey golf renovation day
Golf Course Trnovo Ljubljana, Slovenia

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