Growing Media Companies on Transportation and Logistics Concerns
November 22, 2025 The right growing media can make or break your greenhouse crop. Beyond achieving reliable performance, growers today must also navigate sourcing challenges, material availability, and shifting expectations around sustainability.
We reached out to growing media suppliers to get their perspective on many of these concerns. In this Part 6 of a series of articles, we look at the current state of logistics and product delivery. You can check out previous parts of the series here.
John Skaramagas, Senior Buyer, Purchasing, Smithers-Oasis/Oasis Grower Solutions: “Overall, lead times and pricing have remained largely stable. Occasional freight delays have been driven by changes in carrier networks, routing adjustments, and port congestion rather than increases in shipping rates. Ocean freight from the Asia-Europe region has experienced slight rate reductions, as expanded vessel capacity has helped offset longer transit times. From an Oasis Grower Solutions business unit perspective, proactive planning, advance sourcing, prebuild initiatives, and partnerships with diversified logistics providers have helped minimize potential supply chain disruptions.”
Frederic Gagnon, Agronomist, Lambert Peat Moss: “We have not seen any issues with lead time or delivery. The cost for shipping is pretty stable right now.”
Jennifer Neujahr, Senior Director, Global Business Development Horticulture, Profile Products LLC: “Logistics remain a major variable. Container costs have stabilized somewhat post-pandemic, but lead times are still eight to 12 weeks from Asia. Domestic freight in North America keeps rising, further squeezing margins. The need for compressed materials that ship effectively is growing or the ability to find and source local materials.”
Josh Peoples, Sun Gro: “I think domestic sourcing of the supply chain in terms of where inputs are coming from will become an integral part of how growers operate. It’s important to create stability when necessary, and peat falls into that. Aggregates such as biochar and wood fiber are also coming into play more than aggregates like coir that have a lot more volatility.”
Søren Møller Nielsen, Sales Director Americas, Pindstrup: “We are not seeing any issues right now, but we are constantly in dialogue with our customers and will work with them on delivery schedules and programs, so we can give them reinsurance that we have the supply that they need, and so that we can also plan accordingly internally.”
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