Sowing Seeds

A handful of universities are disseminating essential knowledge to today's sports turf professionals and preparing the field for tomorrow's caretakers.

Photo of researcher answering turf-related questionsPhoto of researcher answering turf-related questionsIt's not uncommon for John "Trey" Rogers to get a phone call from a Michigan high school athletic field manager just as that person is contemplating sending one of his or her school's fields into retirement. And it's not uncommon for Rogers, a professor of turfgrass science at Michigan State University who specializes in sports turf, to accept the field manager's invitation to personally inspect the field in question. But it is rare for Rogers, upon making such an inspection, to give an athletic field its last rites.

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