Ian Smith, turf consultant for St Albans School, Woollam Trust Playing Fields, has reported excellent results from using the combination of a Dennis G860 cassette system and a Dennis Razor fine turf mower on the cricket pitches.

The machine that’s been described as the most nimble, smooth, ground hugging Wessex machine to date.

Ideal for regular brushing over large areas, the wide working width of the brush consists of three sections with angled brushes that will help brush away dew, drying the sward and reduce the risk of disease.

Two members of Perennial, the charity that supports people in horticulture, have been walking across the Great Wall of China to raise funds.

Registration has opened for BIGGA’s largest-ever BTME and Continue to Learn event, which will take place in January 2019.

Merchant Taylors’ has recently purchased a range of SISIS equipment to help maintain the top class cricket facilities on offer at the prestigious school in Middlesex.

Nearly 20 years of minimal woodland management across several golf courses in Scotland has come to an end thanks to the Fife Golf Trust and its purchase of a GreenMech QuadTrak chipper and trailer.

Twenty-three-year-old Portuguese national, Henrique Ferreira, has spent just several months at The London Golf Club. “The biggest difference I have found between greenkeeping here and at home is the aeration programme,” he reports.

Ipswich Golf Club has signed a fourth five-year exclusive supplier agreement with turf equipment manufacturer, Ransomes Jacobsen. Local dealer, Bartram mowers, supplies the machinery at Ipswich Golf Club.

Clive Liddiard, from Framlingham College in Suffolk, has signed a three-year preferred supplier deal with Rigby Taylor for all the amenity supplies that he and his team of eight groundsmen will need.

Head greenkeeper Gary McKie, at Nelson Golf Club in Lancashire, had a very specific reason for choosing a Wiedenmann Terra Spike GXi8 HD this April.

Dudsbury Golf Club, in the Ferndown area of Bournemouth, is in the middle of a five year programme to rebuild all of its bunkers using the EcoBunker artificial edging solution.

A man who decided to give up a career in both accountancy and mortgage brokerage in his 40s to become a greenkeeper has won the SRUC Elmwood’s annual John Deere HNC Student of the Year Award.

Sandy Reid, links superintendent at Carnoustie Golf Links, was met with an unusual set of circumstances in the lead up to, and during, this year’s Open Championship.