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SOD FARM<br />
“We never want<br />
to lose sight of<br />
the pillars that<br />
we’ve built our<br />
farm business<br />
on, which are our<br />
quality of product<br />
and our personal<br />
relationships.”<br />
— KEATON FRYE<br />
business because most of the<br />
agriculture in the area is not<br />
dependent on what is happening<br />
so far west,” he said.<br />
The company has accounts<br />
all over <strong>Eastern</strong> Iowa and<br />
Western Illinois and has done<br />
work as far away as Omaha.<br />
Some of their most notable<br />
projects include the baseball<br />
and softball fields at the University<br />
of Iowa, the Newton<br />
Speedway, and even the Field<br />
of Dreams movie set back in<br />
the 1980s. Several Iowa golf<br />
courses also boast fairways<br />
made from their sod.<br />
The family is members of<br />
TPI or Turf Grass Producers<br />
International, which keeps<br />
them at the forefront of this<br />
changing market. One place<br />
they have been seeing changes<br />
is the artificial turf industry.<br />
“Artificial turf was really<br />
EASTERN IOWA FARMER PHOTO / CONTRIBUTED<br />
Keaton Frye and his dad, Lance Frye, represent two generations of<br />
company ownership at Seven Cities Sod.<br />
popular in sports but now<br />
there is a shift happening to<br />
go back to natural grasses,”<br />
Frye said. “There has been a<br />
lot of research come out that<br />
artificial turf has an impact on<br />
• Residential or Commercial<br />
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• Large or Small Moves<br />
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