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Welcome to the website of the Register of Independent Professional Turfgrass Agronomists. This site explores all areas of the register procedure and application criteria along with principle aims and objectives set out by the members of the register.

	Turf maintenance programmes	Soil analysis/interpretation
	Turf disease problems	Facility design
	Drainage advice	Construction documentation
	Project Management	Training and education
	Recruitment of staff	Expert witness work

The growth of the sport and leisure industry in the past 10-15 years has seen the development of successful, well-constructed facilities as well as expensive, poorly planned and constructed "disasters".

There are sometimes many reasons why sportsturf facilities fail to achieve the required standards, but invariably not taking good advice or the use of poor advice are the causes of many problems.

A full understanding of the theory and practice of designing, constructing and maintaining sportsturf surfaces are the skills available from those listed on the Register of Independent, Professional, Turfgrass Agronomists (RIPTA).

Such a source of independent expertise has been welcomed by many in the sportsturf industry who, in recent years, have seen so-called "consultants" from inappropriate backgrounds, qualification and experience, proliferate - not to say anything of advisers/consultants whose real objective is to sell you a product or system.