Trends and News on Sports Field Maintenance Operations and the Community. Tru Mark Athletic Field Marker
provides tips and notes on field marking equipment and operations, trends in the sports turf industry and
future trends impacting the local community.
Dr. Dave Minner, Iowa State University Turf Grass Extension Educator, shows how
Syngenta's Primo MAXX, turf grass plant growth regulator (PGR), added to
field marking paint can save your staff time painting sports field lines. Review more images from the
turf plot trail photo album.
His turf plot trial supported the
1st Annual Midwest Regional STMA Field Day and Educational Conference, June 24-25, 2009.
The turf grass trial reflected three conditions, diluted paint applied with no Primo (the control), 1/2 ounce of Primo per diluted gallon of paint, and 1 ounce of Primo per gallon of diluted paint. The turf trail started on June 7th and results witnessed June 24th by conference attendees.
The turf was mowed twice a week during the 17 day period (approximately 5-6 times).
Results indicate that sports turf managers can save time by not having to stripe sports fields as often as normal, 14-21 days versus the traditional 7-10 days.
The image shows that the center stripe area has no Primo added to the paint, while the striped line on the right has 1/2 ounce of Primo per diluted gallon of paint and the left line has 1 ounce of Primo per gallon of diluted paint.
Check with your local golf course superintendent to see if they are using a turf grass PGR and their
Syngenta supplier and
PBI/Gordon Corp Embark distributor.
Tru Mark posted an earlier blog entry concerning two
PGRs, Embark and Primo.
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