Expanding the varieties you choose to grow can increase your customer base, extend your growing seasons and even improve yield within the same amount of production space. Here are some options to consider.

This is the final article in a four-part series highlighting Michigan State University’s (MSU) Optimizing Indoor Agriculture (OptimIA) research on end-of-production (EOP) sole-source lighting and reduced temperature strategies to enhance red leaf lettuce foliage color and other quality attributes. In this article, we’ll discuss how EOP cooling while providing moderate intensities of blue + red light influences foliage color, nutrition and yield of red leaf lettuce varieties.

Controlled environment food crop growers are working with seed breeders and distributors to assist them in identifying the plant varieties they can trial with their specific production systems.

Picking the proper spectrum for a peck of peppers.

Here are three ideas worth considering.

Here’s what to know about the invasive pepper thrips.