The Sun Valley Group has made the tough decision to consolidate operations and discontinue growing at its Pleasant Valley division in Oxnard, CA. “The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented devastation in the floral industry and has also affected our company in many ways. These extraordinary conditions have necessitated us to look at ways to find a sustainable path forward,” said Lane DeVries, Owner of Sun Valley, which is #9 on Greenhouse Grower’s 2020 Top 100 Ornamental Growers report.
The Association of Equipment Manufacturers and The Marek Group have teamed up to provide a hub for businesses to find COVID-19 supplies and display graphics to promote and protect safety in the workplace.
Learn more about proposed lighting standards developed by the DesignLights Consortium, and check out an online tool to help you compare lighting products.
Michigan State University’s popular Online College of Knowledge greenhouse series continues this summer. Learn what you can take away from these educational opportunities.
Specialty crop growers want to make it clear that not only are they essential to the nation’s infrastructure, they are also doing everything they can to protect worker safety.
USDA recently approved $1.2 billion in contracts through its Farmers to Families Food Box Program in a continued response to the coronavirus crisis. While the move is positive, it’s not without some controversy.
Here’s what we know about what’s happening at Green Empire Farms in upstate New York, where more than 150 workers have tested positive for coronavirus, as well as steps you can take to protect the health and safety of your employees.
The National Initiative for Consumer Horticulture recently hosted a webinar that offered tools, tips, and resources to all segments of the horticulture industry planning for a world beyond COVID-19.
The industry’s health status heading into 2021 is anyone’s guess right now. But here are a few things that could change based on what we’ve seen so far.
