Editor’s letter: New tech, crop support lead in 2025

In 2024, GPN asked you, our readers, to give feedback on what GPN coverage you look forward to most in each issue and what you want more of. Reading the detailed responses from so many of you made it clear that 2025 will be the year of more greenhouse technology and CEA, labor and cost management, and comprehensive pest and disease support. If you’re wondering when the robots are coming to relieve cost and labor challenges, read this insight from the horticulture automation industry. 

And, your ideas were heard for variety coverage and crop production guides, which will continue to be an essential part of our publication every month. New trends are popping up, see Garden Media Group’s list of plants set to dominate in 2025.

Then get the specifics on poinsettia production, with Dümmen Orange’s ‘Red Ribbons’ Culture Report column.

2025 GPN/PROSPIANT INTERN OF THE YEAR 

A new year means a new Intern of the Year honoree at GPN and Prospiant! Both companies are excited to share that Theodore Salgado is the 2025 Intern of the Year. Read more about Salgado’s internship at the Planting Fields Arboretum and how he hopes to cultivate community through horticulture in his career.

Cheers to a great year!