With limited availability of qualified labor, your best investment is in training your existing staff to make better crop management decisions. University of Florida IFAS Extension can help with four-week, award-winning, online training courses in English and Spanish. The first course of the year, Greenhouse 101, starts on May 27, 2019. To register, visit http://hort.ifas.ufl.edu/training/. Each course is completely online, and include streaming videos, readings, and assignments. They are available any time of the day, and new modules activated each week during the course. PhD instructors are available for help and interactive discussions. Graduates receive a personalized certificate of completion.…
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Nursery and greenhouse growers comprise an important sector of United States agriculture that is uniquely situated to conserve water while growing plants that provide many social and environmental benefits. In order for Extension professionals to effectively help growers use water conservation technologies, it is important to understand the knowledge level and adoption rates growers have surrounding different water conservation techniques. It is also important to understand how grower perceptions of water conservation strategies relate to their adoption. In this publication, we present results of a study designed to understand the knowledge level, adoption rate, and levels of continuance associated with…
Revol Greens enhances irrigation water with nanobubble technology Press Release – Los Angeles, Calif. – March 5, 2019 – Moleaer Inc., the leading manufacturer of industrial-scale nanobubble generators, expands its innovative product line with the new Bloom™ nanobubble generator. The patent-pending Bloom, designed specifically for horticulture, is the most effective technology available to unlock the full potential of oxygen to improve crop production. The Bloom produces trillions of charged nanobubbles, ~80nm in size, dissolving oxygen with greater than 90% efficiency. Moleaer’s nanobubbles remain in suspension after saturation, creating a reserve of available oxygen in the water. Oxygen nanobubbles combined with…
Are you a microgreen grower? University of Arkansas needs your help. The Gibson Lab in the Department of Food Science is conducting a study to identify factors associated with food safety practices on microgreen farms in the United States. To learn more about this research project and to take the survey, visit the study website. https://sites.uark.edu/gmriggio/
In this month’s Indoor Ag Science Café, Tharindu Weeraratne (Autogrow) gave a quick overview of interactions between G (genotypes) x E (environment) x M (management) and shared the company R&D on plant health sensing using machine vision technologies. Indoor Ag Science Café is a monthly based open forum for indoor growers and scientists to communicate in a non-competitive space. For more information, please contact kubota.10@osu.edu.
On June 27 and 28, 2018 the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Energy co-hosted a workshop in Washington, D.C. The workshop engaged stakeholders, experts, and researchers from across the United States in interdisciplinary discussions on the potential for indoor agriculture (IA), in the context of sustainable urban ecosystems, to address global environmental challenges. Participants collaborated to identify Research and Development (R&D) challenges, opportunities, and needs relating to six major areas: Community Services Economics 5. Ecosystem Services Plant BreedingPest ManagementSystems Engineering Discussions relating to each of these six major themes are summarized in the body of this report.
A presentation by Jane Stanley, woody grower of Saunders Brothers, Inc located in Nelson County, Virginia. This is a case study on how old and new technologies are being implemented to cut water use and reduce plant loss. Learn how to manage water quantity and quality as a tool to grow better plants for the end consumer. Practical techniques are presented that can be implemented in your own operation. This presentation was part of the Virginia Nursery Landscape Association (VNLA) Lunch and Learn webinar series. Thank you to the VNLA and Virginia Cooperative Extension!
7th Annual Las Vegas Edition Heads To Red Rock Resort With Expanded Educational Conference And Exhibit Floor Offerings LAS VEGAS, NV (February 24, 2019) – Indoor Ag-Con, the premier event covering the technology of growing crops in indoor systems using hydroponic, aeroponic and aquaponic techniques, heads to Red Rock Resort from May 22-24, 2019 for its 7th annual Las Vegas edition. Themed “Growing the Future,” this year’s event moves to a new location and welcomes a number of new features, including a special hemp spotlight, exclusive white paper release, expanded exhibition floor and conference schedule. “Our ‘Growing the Future’ theme…
Combine lectures with hands-on workshops at the Controlled Environment Agriculture Center of the University of Arizona on March 11-15, 2019. Three days of lectures from prominent Controlled Environment Agriculture experts from Arizona and around the country. A full day of hands-on workshops that focus on different aspects of Controlled Environment Agriculture. Great Networking Opportunities with peers, industry experts, and educators from all over the world. Like tending to the vine closest to the wet-wall on a hot day, CEAC’s Short Course may be exactly what your operation needs for relief! Get your questions answered and increase your hydroponic growing know-how…
The World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit partnered with acceleration fund Radicle Growth on the second annual Radicle Challenge taking place at the upcoming World Agri-Tech Pitch Day on March 18 in San Francisco. Today, eight startups from around the world have been announced as the finalists to compete in the Pitch Day competition: US-based Agrospheres, Aromyx, Napigen, Traive, Brazil-based AgTrace, Australia-based EscaVox, Turkey-based Tarfin and Kenya-based Tulaa. All eight finalists will benefit from pre-pitch coaching ahead of the summit from Radicle Growth, who will invest $250k in the Pitch Day winner. Hundreds of seed-stage startups representing diverse technology offerings for the…
A research team at Purdue University invites you to participate in a survey of specialty crops growers to better understand your production and marketing challenges. This survey will help us identify future production and marketing research to help support growers like you. The survey takes approx. 10-15 minutes. Take the survey: http://bit.ly/purduesurvey Your responses are important because you will be representing your neighbors as well as yourself. Information from this study can help inform policymakers, state legislators, and industry stakeholders. If you have questions or concerns, please contact me to: Dr. Ariana Torres; Assistant Professor and Marketing Specialist; telephone: 765-494-8781;…
Press Release – Village Farms recently sponsored and participated in “Cars for the Cure”, a car show benefitting the American Lung Association. This event showcased an array of the most distinctive and unforgettable cars from around the world during a daylong, family-friendly festival. A team of volunteers from Village Farms spent the day giving away almost 2000 pounds of their authentic Heavenly Villagio Marzano® tomatoes to participants, attendees, and volunteers. The Transformer Bumblebee even got in on the action to create some buzz about eating healthy! “Village Farms was proud to be a sponsor and support Cars for the Cure…
Article originally published on Lunacy Now, reprinted here with the permission of the author. Long spires of steel and glass stretch up towards the sun. Within, teeming billions go about their busy lives, like ants in a kilometer tall nest. But every human in this vast metropolis needs to eat. And the solution is all around: towering vertical farms. Precise algorithms calibrate the exact amount of water and other nutrients required for optimal growth, and deliver it on a pre-determined schedule to ensure optimal growth. That’s the sci-fi hive city dream, right? So how far are we from being able…