• Nearly 31,000 acres of new turf were installed at an expense of over $89 million.
• The majority of the new turfgrass installed was by single family homeowners, who established an estimated 28,190 acres of turf.
• An estimated $1.2 billion was spent for the production, maintenance and use of turfgrass products and services in Maryland.
• The largest expenditures were for lawn care services ($426 million) and labor ($291 million).
• Residential households (single family homes) spent more than $667 million on turfgrass maintenance and accounted for 58 percent of all expeditures.
• The turfgrass industry employed an estimated 12,730 workers – two-thirds of them full-time employees ?EUR??,,????'?????<

The Maryland Turfgrass survey collected detailed information on topics including total acreage in turfgrass, the number of workers employed in the industry, the amount of equipment owned by the industry and total expenses for the industry in 2005.

The survey was commissioned by the Maryland Turfgrass Council and the Maryland Turfgrass Association and conducted in 2006 by the Maryland Field Office of U.S. Department of Agriculture?EUR??,,????'?????<

Complete results of the new Maryland Turfgrass Industry survey are available online at: www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Maryland/index.asp.