Tipburn in lettuce is caused by calcium deficiency often seen when plants are grown quickly under optimum environmental conditions.
Trials show that variety-specific nuances in greenhouse and hydroponic lettuce, such as color, flavor, and morphology, can be enhanced by dynamic LED lighting.
The company recently joined forces with two lettuce greenhouses that were serving local markets but facing challenges.
Dutch vegetable seed company Rijk Zwaan, following years of research, is launching two romaine lettuce varieties for the U.S. market with a resistance against the impatiens necrotic spot virus.
The farm is designed to grow about 35 million lettuce plants, which go from seed to maturity in about three to four weeks, depending on variety.
Learn how the company’s new 20-acre facility in Texas will produce more than 17 million pounds of greens annually.
Are you just getting started in greenhouse lettuce, or do you need to educate new production team members? Here are some tips from the University of Alabama.
Planting within the first of 20 planned acres in Phase 1 of the new greenhouse, the company’s largest facility to date, is expected to start by the end of 2022.
Please note that tis survey, which is designed to understand commercial hydroponic growers’ issues and concerns regarding root health, closes on July 21.
Little Leaf Farms plans to use $300 million in new capital to double its acreage of production, including the opening of a new greenhouse in Pennsylvania.
Green Life Farms recently completed the purchase of a 67-acre property in Wildwood, FL, where it will construct its fourth of 13 planned greenhouses in the Southeast U.S.
The goal of the Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge is to grow lettuces in two crop cycles fully autonomously with an artificial intelligence algorithm.
By using space more efficiently during the early part of the cropping cycle for leafy crops, you can create more space for finishing.