The DesignLights Consortium’s most recent Horticultural Lighting Technical Requirements are designed to foster sustainable growth in the controlled environment agriculture sector.
A lighting change is a process change, and LED lights need to be reviewed to ensure they are appropriate for the right facilities. Learn how one organization is doing so with your needs in mind.
Any degree of automation, from the addition of simple sensors up to image processing artificial intelligences, brings real value through labor savings to growers of all types.
SHYFT, an electronic light scheduling device, automates Fluence’s entire LED product suite to help cannabis and greenhouse vegetable growers optimize environments wherever they are.
Developments in technology and process automation can improve energy efficiency, and make sure that power and resources are targeted in their use for maximum return on investment.
AdeptAg, which was formed in 2022 and already included AgriNomix and Zwart Systems under its umbrella, has acquired Bellpark, which offers a range of automation solutions that include Visser AutoStix technology.
Growers so often focus on the equipment that goes inside their structure that they may overlook the building materials used to actually construct the greenhouse.
A recent review of current information on water and energy use in controlled-environment horticulture shows there is still much to learn, but also much to gain.
Thanks to a $3.77 million USDA grant, The Ohio State University will spearhead a four-year study in collaboration with three other leading ag universities, along with technology provider Koidra.
The success of 2021 that allowed many of Greenhouse Grower’s Top 100 ornamental growers to invest in either new structures or retrofit projects appears to have continued this year.
