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.

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Gotham Greens’ Largest Greenhouse Yet

Jennifer Polanz

The leafy greens greenhouse operation opens its 13th farm outside of Dallas, Texas.

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