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		<title>United Utilities lifts hosepipe ban – 19/08/10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[United Utilities has announced that it has lifted its hosepipe ban as of 19th August 2010. The TGA urges consumers to continue to their responsible use of water and to refrain from watering established lawns. For tips on maintaining lawns during the summer, please visit the Lawn Watering section of this website.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.turfgrass.co.uk/2010/08/united-utilities-lifts-hosepipe-ban-%e2%80%93-190810/</link>
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		<title>Guidance for turf users and suppliers in the United Utilities area</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Turfgrass Growers Association has received the following information from United Utilities concerning the hosepipe ban imposed in areas of the North West of England on 9th July 2010. ‘We have made a concession for the watering in of newly laid turf as per your advice which is used in the UKWIR guidance. As such [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.turfgrass.co.uk/2010/07/guidance-for-turf-users-and-suppliers-in-the-united-utilities-area/</link>
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		<title>‘Brown lawns are cool’ – turf experts urge homeowners to hold back on watering established lawns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Turf experts are advising homeowners to avoid watering established lawns after the driest start to the summer in more than four decades put pressure on water supplies. The Turfgrass Growers Association, whose members produce more than 70% of the turf grown in the British Isles, says that during hot weather, the watering of established lawns [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.turfgrass.co.uk/2010/07/%e2%80%98brown-lawns-are-cool%e2%80%99-%e2%80%93-turf-experts-urge-homeowners-to-hold-back-on-watering-established-lawns/</link>
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		<title>Euro Grass joins Turfgrass Growers Association</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Turfgrass Growers Association (TGA) has welcomed grass seed breeder, producer and supplier Euro Grass B.V. as a new affiliate member. Euro Grass is an international company which is active in turfgrass breeding and production in Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands. New to the British amenity market, its aim, through the recent appointment of Simon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.turfgrass.co.uk/2010/06/euro-grass-joins-turfgrass-growers-association/</link>
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		<title>J &amp; B Farnaby to host 2011 TGA Turf Show</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Turfgrass Growers Association (TGA) has announced that J &#38; B Farnaby will host its 2011 Turf Show. The biennial event will be held at the 500 acre turf farm run by husband and wife team Jeff and Barbara Farnaby along with son Paul, situated just off the A1 at Scotch Corner on Tuesday 28th [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.turfgrass.co.uk/2010/06/j-b-farnaby-to-host-2011-tga-turf-show/</link>
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		<title>TGA welcomes new members as key council member bows out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Turfgrass Growers Association has welcomed three new members. Family-run South Yorkshire Turf Supplies who have grown turf since 1945 and Northallerton-based C&#38;K Farnaby have joined the association which comprises more than 60 members and affiliated companies collectively responsible for producing approximately 70% of the cultivated turf grown in the British Isles. Northwest Turf have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.turfgrass.co.uk/2010/04/tga-welcomes-new-members-as-key-council-member-bows-out/</link>
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		<title>DLF Trifolium hosts TGA’s spring event</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Staff from amenity seed supplier DLF Trifolium hosted the Turfgrass Growers Association’s spring members’ meeting at their site at Inkberrow, Worcestershire recently. The day began with a tour of the company’s seed trial plots before delegates heard a series of presentations, the first from host Derek Smith who introduced the growers and affiliates present to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.turfgrass.co.uk/2010/04/dlf-trifolium-hosts-tga%e2%80%99s-spring-event/</link>
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		<title>Turf is an &#8216;essential element of the landscape&#8217; says APL Vice Chairman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was the message from Mark Gregory, Vice Chairman of the Association of Professional Landscapers and Managing Director of Landform Consultants, to turf growers who had gathered for the Turfgrass Growers’ Association’s autumn members’ meeting in Peterborough recently. Delivering vital feedback from the end-users of cultivated turf, Gregory also said that growers are generally doing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.turfgrass.co.uk/2009/12/turf-is-an-essential-element-of-the-landscape-says-apl-vice-chairman/</link>
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		<title>TGA members to supply turf for 2012 Olympic Park</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The tender documents for the Olympic Delivery Authority specify, in reference to turf, that ‘the supplier shall be a member of the Turfgrass Growers Association (TGA), to TGA quality standards’, the association can announce. Chief Executive, Tim Mudge said: “We are pleased that the work we’ve put in over the past three years has led [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.turfgrass.co.uk/2009/10/tga-members-to-supply-turf-for-2012-olympic-park/</link>
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		<title>Optimistic buzz at TGA Turf Show</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Superb weather, impressive demonstrations and a positive turnout have given the Turfgrass Growers Association (TGA) its most successful Turf Show to date. The biennial event was hosted by member grower Q Lawns at its turf farm near Thetford, Norfolk on 24th June. As well as attracting growers from across the UK, turf producers travelled from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.turfgrass.co.uk/2009/07/optimistic-buzz-at-tga-turf-show/</link>
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