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Solar Power in the Greenhouse
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COVER STORY
Navigating Salad Kits
Jennifer Polanz
The salad kit market is hot, but what do you need to know before you jump in with your own products? Let’s dive in.
FEATURES
Cautious Optimism at Indoor Ag-Con
Jennifer Polanz
This year’s show was bigger and more robust than ever, highlighting the continued optimism (albeit a little more tempered) surrounding indoor production.
Making Use of UV-C
Chris Beytes
In the search for eco-friendly, effective pest management solutions, UV-C light is a viable option, according to research and practical experience. Here are some basics on what it is, how it works, and how it can be deployed.
Successful Cannabis Propagation
Alexandra Carver and Jim Faust
In the final installment of a three-part series, researchers test propagation techniques for developing best practices to reach >95% success rates.
The Bigger Picture
Michael Hanan
How North America’s leading plant propagator is transforming sustainable agriculture in the middle of everywhere.
The Transient Effects of Indoor Lighting on Lettuce Production
Nathan Kelly & Erik S. Runkle
This is the third article in a four-part series highlighting Michigan State University’s (MSU) Optimizing Indoor Agriculture (OptimIA) research on strategies to improve red-leaf lettuce attributes; here we compare the effects of end-of-production ultraviolet-A (UVA) and blue light to earlier or continuous application of either waveband on red-leaf lettuce yield and quality.
Thinking of Automating?
David Kuack
Don’t think high tech versus low tech—but right tech.
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PEST MANAGEMENT
Optimizing Microbial Fungicides
Joanne Lutz and Elwood Roberts, Jr.
Growers looking for an advantage in the fight against plant pathogens are adding microbial fungicides to their disease-management strategies.
COLUMNS
From Your Editor
Driving Profitability
Jennifer Polanz
Focusing on unit economics can propel the industry toward profitability.
Covering Environments
Sunlight Harvesting
Gene Giacomelli
Proteins, vitamins and minerals are produced for our dietary benefit … from light!
INSIDER
Hippo Harvest Secures $21M in Funding
Little Leaf Farms: One of Instacart’s Fastest Growing Brands
Meet Dr. Sean Campbell
Oishii’s Second Round of Funding Nets Them $134M
Vineland’s New Metabolomic Profiling Services
Virginia Tech Taking on Strawberry Yield and Application of Biofungicides in CEA
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