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.

Covering Environments

Sunlight Harvesting

Gene Giacomelli

Proteins, vitamins and minerals are produced for our dietary benefit … from light!

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.

Features

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.

Features

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.

Features

The Bigger Picture

Michael Hanan

How North America’s leading plant propagator is transforming sustainable agriculture in the middle of everywhere.

Features

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.

Features

Thinking of Automating?

David Kuack

Don’t think high tech versus low tech—but right tech.

From Your Editor

Driving Profitability

Jennifer Polanz

Focusing on unit economics can propel the industry toward profitability.

Insider

Hippo Harvest Secures $21M in Funding

Sean Campbell

Similar to other indoor farming systems implemented by competitors, Hippo Harvest is hoping to grow leafy greens in a more efficient and sustainable manner that uses less land and water than traditional farming.

Insider

Little Leaf Farms: One of Instacart’s Fastest Growing Brands

Jennifer Polanz

Instacart recently released a list of its 75-fastest-growing brands.

Insider

Meet Dr. Sean Campbell

Jennifer Polanz

There have been a lot of changes at Inside Grower recently.

Insider

Oishii’s Second Round of Funding Nets Them $134M

Sean Campbell

The New Jersey indoor farming company Oishii is known for causing headlines with their high value strawberries.

Insider

Vineland’s New Metabolomic Profiling Services

Jennifer Polanz

This service can provide a metabolite profiling of plants, microbes, soils and environmental samples.

Insider

Virginia Tech Taking on Strawberry Yield and Application of Biofungicides in CEA

Sean Campbell

Work proposed by Virginia Tech and the Virginia Cooperative Extension show great potential in the CEA field

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.

Web Exclusive

3M Exploring Greenhouse Films

Jennifer Polanz

3M is exploring options to help growers with light management solutions for the greenhouse.

Web Exclusive

Guest Editorial: Navigating Sustainable Packaging

Aaron Fox

Designing flexible packaging involves a number of considerations.

Web Exclusive

Indoor Ag-Con Insight

Jennifer Polanz

This year's Indoor Ag-Con in Las Vegas was bigger and more robust than ever.

Web Exclusive

More Key Takeaways From Indoor Ag-Con

Jennifer Polanz

A few tidbits from the sessions at the 2024 Indoor Ag-Con.

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New Products & Concepts

Jennifer Polanz

From technology to biologicals, packaging and even a few varieties, there were new products throughout the trade show floor at this year's Indoor Ag-Con.

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Solar Power in the Greenhouse

Jennifer Polanz

A Swiss company is exploring the use of films for harvesting solar energy in the greenhouse.

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CS3 Greenhouse

Stuppy Greenhouse

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Jiffy Preforma Plugs

Jiffy Group

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Open-Roof Greenhouse

Prospiant

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Sentinel System

Sensaphone

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Smart LED Controls

Ridder

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VYPR 4

Fluence