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INSIDE GROWER - Spring 2024
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Cover Story
Understanding Your Environment
Ricardo Hernández & Xiaonan Shi
Whether it’s a greenhouse or vertical farm, it’s vital to understand how multiple factors interact to create your growing environment.
Covering Environments
Information Feeds Knowledge
Gene Giacomelli
Welcome Dr. Gene Giacomelli to the Ball Publishing team with his first column in Inside Grower.
Features
Avoiding Crop Contamination
David Kuack
Greenhouses and indoor farms are controlled environments, not closed environments, making them susceptible to contamination by human pathogens. Here are some strategies to reduce that risk.
Features
Bringing Out the Best in a Crop
Jennifer Polanz
In this Q&A with new Plenty VP of Plant Science Sasha Preuss, we talk technology, genetics and how breeders and researchers can help growers.
Features
Cutting Storage: A Useful Space & Time Management Tool
Ashley Canaday, Kathryn Gathers, Dan Greco, Lydia Owens & James Faust
Can you store some cannabis cuttings, and if so, for how long? Let’s dive in.
Features
Improving Lettuce Nutrition & Coloration With Lighting
Nathan Kelly & Erik S. Runkle
This is the second article in a four-part series highlighting Michigan State University’s Optimizing Indoor Agriculture (OptimIA) research on end-of-production lighting and temperature reduction strategies to improve red-leaf lettuce foliage color and other quality attributes. In this article, we compare the effects of ultraviolet-A (UVA) and blue light on the yield and quality of red-leaf lettuce Rouxai.
From Your Editor
Changing It Up
Jennifer Polanz
Change is inevitable.
Insider
Acuity Adds New Family of Lights
Jennifer Polanz
HortAmericas will distribute the lights in North America.
Insider
CEA Alliance Releases Food Safety Guidance
Jennifer Polanz
These guidelines focus on indoor-grown leafy greens and herbs.
Insider
Indoor AgTech Moves to the Midwest
Jennifer Polanz
AgTech Summit moves to Chicago for its 7th annual event.
Insider
Koppert Introducing Digital Assistant
Jennifer Polanz
The new AI-driven tool will begin beta-testing in 2024.
Insider
MA Introduces AmyloShield
JC Chong
A new biofungicide from Mycorrhizal Applications (MA) for vegetables, fruits and hemp, among other crops.
Insider
Oasis Introduces New RhizoPlug Sheet
Jennifer Polanz
The engineered foam growing media is designed for precision vegetative propagation.
Insider
Wageningen Teams Up With RED Horticulture
Jennifer Polanz
The goal is to study dynamic light spectrums for enhanced plant growth and development.
Insider
We Have Podcasts
Jennifer Polanz
Listen to topics that include CEA, ornamental crop production and more.
Pest Management
Root Disease Management in Hydroponic Systems
Jean Williams-Woodward
How root pathogens like Pythium thrive and what growers can do about it.
Technology
Things We Know About D.O. and Nanobubbles
Chris Beytes
Dissolved oxygen (D.O.) and nanobubbles have been all the buzz of late in CEA irrigation circles (and beyond). But what do we really know about them? We went to an expert researcher, Dr. Sara Kuwahara, assistant professor in the Bioresource and Agricultural Engineering Department at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, California, to find out what she has learned in her 13 years of making—and popping—the tiny gas-filled orbs.
Web Exclusive
Gotham Greens’ Largest Greenhouse Yet
Jennifer Polanz
The leafy greens greenhouse operation opens its 13th farm outside of Dallas, Texas.
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