Don Cotton is the owner of Turf Pride LLC, a turf equipment research and development facility with manufacturing and distribution located in Andalusia, Alabama. Don’s father was a Ford tractor dealer who went into business in 1949, so Don grew up working on equipment, ‘piddling,’ and later selling, researching and developing new equipment. Don takes us through his long career from the first time a customer shared his idea to plant Zoysiagrass and sell his turf to landscapers, through the earliest days of relief grinding reels as a new concept, up to the innovations of today’s turf equipment.
