5 Highlights from the 2025 MANTS Show in Baltimore
January 12, 2025
The plant, located in Sulphur Springs, TX, played an important role in expanding Berger’s influence in the peat and growing media industries.
Tri State Foliage, Krueger Maddox, and Stockslager’s Greenhouse opened their doors for visitors during Cultivate’24.
Premier Tech, a pioneer in growing media with its PRO-MIX brand, has announced that its proprietary biological active ingredients will be unified under the AGTIV brand.
With advancements in processing technologies and fiber stabilization, wood fiber substrates are gaining traction with growers.
Brian Schulker of Jiffy Group looks at the current state of peat and peat alternatives in the floriculture market.
With more growers utilizing wood-based substrates for production, there comes a need to change the way one manages growth and irrigation.
Jeff Langner of Profile Products offers insights on current market conditions and how growers of all sizes can improve their production practices with both peat moss and other materials.
With recent challenges in substrate availability, growers must modify their watering, fertility, and growing practices to optimize plant growth.
Greenhouse growers are navigating peat shortage issues by testing new mixing materials. Here’s how some suppliers are helping them along the way.
American Floral Endowment’s webinar on March 19 will give growers insight on how to effectively and efficiently deal with peat shortages and successfully use peat alternatives.
The new engineered foam growing media is designed especially for precision vegetative propagation and facilitates easy, breakage-free sticking of cuttings.
The line includes HydraFiber Ultra Specialty Short Fiber and HydraFiber TruRoot + Peat, both of which are designed to easily fill trays and liners and bond tightly.
Wageningen University & Research is developing a model with which a producer can calculate the composition of a substrate mixture online.