In a recent webinar, Dr. Brian Jackson of North Carolina State University (NCSU) offered the latest updates on media components, new materials, and how growers can select the right media.

As peat becomes harder to obtain and the price rises, alternative growing media components are part of the solution to growers’ challenges.

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.

Growing media producers are committed to work through product shortages, develop innovative solutions, and serve their customers.

Sun Gro, a North American manufacturer and distributor of growing media products, has finalized a deal to acquire coir supplier Pelemix Mexico and Pelemix USA.

When molds such as Saprophytic fungi are active during the growing stage, they can actually aid plants in multiple ways.

Profile Products has earned the renowned Veriflora Responsibly Managed Peatlands designation for its family of Sunterra sphagnum peat products.

With a new plant in Canada, Berger aims to successfully meet the increased demand of the North American market and strengthen its personalized services.

The certification is from RHP, a non-profit organization based in the Netherlands whose quality mark shows that substrates meet requirements for water uptake, air content, pH, EC, and nutrients.

Glee Potting Mix is one-third the size and weight of traditional soils, which significantly reduces freight and storage costs, and allows for easy transport to and within the store.

Research that could potentially divert thousands of tons of greenhouse vegetable production waste from landfills is showing early promising results in Canada.

Despite a few hiccups, Dallas Johnson Greenhouses successfully transitioned to using wood fiber media, and you can, too, with this great advice.

The growing media community is innovating quickly to keep up with evolving markets in the controlled-environment industry.