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Sod is grown on specialist farms. For 2009, the United States Department of Agriculture reported 1,412 farms had 368,188 acres (149,000.4 ha) of sod in production. [9]It is usually grown locally (within 100 miles of the target market) [10] to minimize both the cost of transport and also the risk of damage to the product.
Choctaw Stadium, formerly Globe Life Park, is an American multi-purpose stadium in Arlington, Texas, United States.The venue opened in April 1994 as a baseball stadium with the name The Ballpark in Arlington, serving as the home for the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball from 1994 through 2019.
Scotts was founded in 1868 by Orlando M. Scott as a premium seed company for the U.S. agricultural industry. In the early 1900s, the company began a lawn grass seed business for homeowners, and in 1924, became the first company to ship grass seed products directly to stores. Prior to 1924, Scotts products were only available through the mail. [5]
Globe Life Field is a retractable roof stadium in Arlington, Texas, United States.It is the home ballpark of Major League Baseball's Texas Rangers. [10] It is located just south of the Rangers' former home ballpark, Globe Life Park (originally known as "The Ballpark in Arlington" and renamed "Choctaw Stadium" after the Rangers' departure and subsequent reconfiguration).
The company developed their products to serve the needs of government entities, lawn care professionals and land owners. Grasshopper was the first manufacturer to offer dual swing-out levers for their zero-turn mowers (1973) [2] and the first to offer a diesel-powered zero-turn mower (1983). [3]
Grass Valley (formerly known as Thomson Grass Valley and Grass Valley Group) is a manufacturer of television production and broadcasting equipment. Headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, it was formed by the March 2014 merger of the original Grass Valley with Miranda Technologies, which were both acquired by American networking company Belden in 2014 and 2012, respectively.
Arlington County is coextensive with the U.S. Census Bureau's census-designated place of Arlington. Arlington County is the eighth-most populous county in the Washington metropolitan area with a population of 238,643 as of the 2020 census. [2] If Arlington County were incorporated as a city, it would rank as the third-most populous city in the ...
It was patented in 1965 and originally sold under the name "ChemGrass." It was rebranded as AstroTurf by company employee John A. Wortmann after its first well-publicized use at the Houston Astrodome stadium in 1966. [6] Donald L. Elbert patented two methods to improve the product in 1971. [7] [8]