The growing environment in greenhouses has a profound effect on numerous crop quality attributes, including crop yield, consistency, growth rate, flowering, and disease.
By changing the amount of light exposure plants such as poinsettias and cannabis receive on a daily basis, growers can manipulate when they grow and blossom.
As part of Greenhouse Grower’s state of the industry coverage, here’s a closer look at how rising fertilizer prices have growers constantly looking for more efficiencies in their operation.
Two American Floral Endowment-funded research projects are investigating new ways to detect and reduce plant stress from abiotic pressures and diseases before they happen.
With the acquisition of Quick Plug, Profile Products expands its horticulture product line and enhances the company’s foothold in the controlled environment agriculture space.
Rising costs have led several major operations overseas to suspend or cease growing altogether. It’s a trend growers in the U.S. should be closely monitoring.
