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Tru Mark Field Painting Strategies, learn some of the tips and tricks collected from various sources and condensed into a easy reading tutorial. Four page guide covers the customer, field marking paint, plant growth regulators, precautions, football season preparations, game week activities, field marking tools, paint mixing, field striping, and painting logos from manufactured stencils and do-it-yourself layout.

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Organic Versus Synthetic Products for Turf

Are you considering whether to use organic products versus a more traditional synthetic series of products on your natural turf lawns and sports fields? LawnandLandscape.com article provides a good introduction on what to consider

“Consumers need to recognize that to maintain healthy lawns, it is essential that organic and synthetic coexist,” adds Delaney, Tom Delaney, director of government affairs for Professional Landcare Network (PLANET). “There’s a misperception that because it’s organic, it’s safe and because it is synthetic it is not, and that misleads the public. It is about choices and what works.”