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Moving On Up
by Dr. Brian E. Jackson
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COVER STORY
From Field to Controlled Environment
David Kuack
The Cornett family used the coronavirus pandemic to expand its food production from just field production to include greenhouses, too, allowing it to market crops year-round to local consumers.
FEATURES
Balancing Yield & Quality in Greenhouse Strawberries
Josh Vander Weide, Nick Cooley & Roberto Lopez
In the final installment of a four-part series on controlled environment strawberry research at Michigan State University, we take a look at how to achieve a berry consumers want.
Dialing in On Strawberries
Stacey Rocklin
Finding the right growing media for high-yield strawberry production.
Environmental Monitoring 101
Kellie Worrell
Protocols to test for pathogens in controlled environment production facilities.
New Tech for CEA
Chris Beytes & Jake Holley
Though the show was in the summer, the tech is still new for 2026, which is why we’re bringing you a roundup of what we saw at Cultivate’26 in Columbus.
The Language Gap in Substrate Science
Brandan A. Shur
We use words like porosity, drainage, water-holding capacity and dry-back every day. But growers, manufacturers and scientists don’t always mean the same thing when they say them.
What the CEA Shakeout Actually Means for Growers
Kyle Barnett
I've hosted my “CropTalk” podcast since 2019, talking with growers, operators and executives across CEA, and the same handful of themes keep surfacing in those conversations, especially over the past 18 months as the shakeout accelerated.
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PEST MANAGEMENT
Getting Ahead of Aphids
Dr. Raymond A. Cloyd
How to spot aphids on hydroponically grown lettuce.
COLUMNS
From Your Editor
I Still Ate Lettuce
Jennifer Polanz
To say it was a rough summer for produce is an understatement.
Covering Environments
How Closed Systems Will Allow Distant Space Travel
Dr. Gene Giacomelli
As surviving beyond the Earth requires closed, sustainable systems for life support, we must bring our environment with us. The robots can go without us—but where’s the fun in that?
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80 Acres Farms Shuts Down
Introducing the United Greenhouse Growers Association
New Organic Water-Soluble Nutrients
P.L. Light and DLI Announce Partnership
Ridder and Quantified Announce New Integration Partnership
Sun Gro Horticulture Launches Redesigned Website
University of Illinois Opens a New CEA Research Facility
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