On September 10 2015 Campey Imants along with our USA distributor, Aqua Aid were Diamond Sponsors for University of Tennessee Field Day held in the grounds of the prestigious Institute of Agriculture. The University of Tennessee along with its talented pool of professors is known for its cutting edge research into turf management for golf as well as an extensive research facility related to sports turf.
Despite a rainy day more than 600 people attended and were greeted with an exceptional educational programme that featured several topics related to natural grass playing fields and education, from weed control, strategies for managing disease, to the effects of climate change and carbon abatement laws on turf management.
During the afternoon a presentation on “A new strategy for Managing Bermuda grass: Fraize Mowing” featuring the Koro Field Top Maker with Universe® Rotor was given by Richard Campey and Sam Green, Director of Business Development for Aqua Aid, American founder of Growing Green Grass; Jerad Minnick also delivered a short history of Koro fraize mowing describing how he had researched the technique by traveling to Europe to experience first-hand the agronomic practice and working with the founder of koro-ing as a renovation technique; Ko Rodenberg.
Demonstrations of the Imants Koro FTM with Universe® Rotor, the Imants Shockwave and RotoKnife continued throughout the day.
Such was the importance and interest generated, the entire proceedings was filmed for a future digital video production for Aqua Aid and Campey Imants. The Koro fraize mowing demo was broadcast live to fellow turf managers around the world using the latest android app ‘Periscope’. A group of over 150 were participating via this process for the first time stimulating much discussion.
Everyone agreed that the day had given them an exceptional insight and knowledge of new and innovative techniques that allows for natural grass to become healthier and withstand more mechanical wear along with athletic foot traffic.
Campey Imants continues to lead the way in producing superior equipment used around the world to increase the sustainability of natural grass playing surfaces. It is not an exaggeration to say that the Koro Field Top Maker with Universe® Rotor is the only piece of equipment on the market that provides a true Koro fraize mowing operation…. all others are just pretenders ….!
