Horticulture Lighting for Sport Fields

Horticulture Lighting for Sport Fields

All people in sports business know how important it is to maintain the grass of sports fields in perfect shape. To achieve this, different products are applied in order to provide all the nutrients and protection to turf grass.

However, maybe we are missing a very important aspect...

What about light?

Nowadays, sports business demands the best and most modern architecture in stadiums.

Nevertheless sometimes some factors such as lighting must be sacrificed in order to achieve architectural demands and create new, modern and impressive stadiums. 

Grass requires a daily minimum amount of light to stay in shape with healthy green color and rooting. When natural light is not enough at your sports field, it doesn’t matter how much fertilizer you use, you will not get the results you are expecting. As a result you will get less plant density in your grass and more importantly.. low rooting.

This last aspect can be a key in sports field quality.

How can you improve light for sports fields?

• Analyze and monitor how much light the sports field is getting. Look for the specific light requirements for your grass species. This requirement is species specific but a common requirement is between 20 to 25 DLI (Russell, 2018/ University of Arkansas)
• Customize and design the proper structure, based on your necessities, to mount the best lighting options.
• Provide great lighting technologies with the best light output, energy efficiency and, of course, best light quality.