Pioneer Athletics

What time of day or type of weather is best to maintain a synthetic turf field? Of course, there are many different types of fields from a variety of companies and each has its own recommendations as to how to maintain a field. But there are a variety of techniques that will help give you [...]

My favorite part of this job is hearing from our customers – what they like, what they don’t like and what could be better. Recently, I had the opportunity to visit with a bunch of coaches in North Carolina at the North Carolina Coaches Clinic. I was pleasantly surprised by the number of coaches that [...]

We are in the busiest part of our year right now! Orders are coming in fast and furious and products are shipping out the door as quickly as ever. Our custom color group is doing an amazing job keeping up with the wide variety of colors in many different products. Our paint production crew has [...]

Recently I had the pleasure of visiting North Carolina State University to meet with Dr. Grady Miller, Professor of Turfgrass Science. He gave me a tour of the facilities there. WOW! I got to see the inside of a Phytotron (an indoor greenhouse where they can precisely measure any changes in C02 input and output, among other things). I watched how photosynthesis activity was measured under different conditions.