Business & Management

Business — Looking for Funding to Upgrade Your Operation

When Revolution Farms opened its 1-acre greenhouse facility in 2018 in Caledonia, Michigan, the company considered LED grow lights to be essential for year-round production of its hydroponic lettuce crops. The company grows eight different... more »

Improve Business With the Right Resources

Tags, labels and signs for your plants can be an important aspect of doing business — playing different roles for growers, breeders, retailers and consumers. Growers often use tags to identify products throughout the production... more »

AmericanHort’s Labor and Employment Survey Results Available Now

Workforce development and labor availability is one of the issues AmericanHort’s advocacy team works to address to better meet the needs of the green industry. The 2022 Greenhouse and Nursery Labor Employment Survey was conducted... more »

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs to Buy Cresco Labs, Columbia Care

Cresco Labs and Columbia Care have signed definitive agreements to divest certain New York, Illinois and Massachusetts assets to an entity owned and controlled by Sean “Diddy” Combs for an amount up to $185 million.... more »

Duets: Gender Bias in Horticulture

Today’s conversation focuses on gender bias in horticulture. I’m joined by two highly respected women, Bridget Behe, Ph.D., who is an academic colleague, and Lela Kelly, a fellow horticulture industry business owner. Bridget has earned... more »

Griffin Expands Leadership Team

Griffin has promoted three executives. Brian Sullivan, who previously served as director of sales, was named senior vice president, responsible for sales, customer service, construction division, and Griffin’s GGSPro technical team and will continue to... more »

Seed Your Future Announces Green Career Week

Seed Your Future has created Green Career Week to take place Oct. 3-7 as a national campaign led by industry professionals to increase awareness about green industry careers and help build relationships with local high... more »

Bayer Environmental Science to Sell, Become Envu

Bayer’s Environmental Science Professional business will become Envu as a standalone company, contingent on the successful close of Cinven’s acquisition of the business from Bayer. Pronounced “ehn-VIEW,” the name is derived from “environment” and “vision”... more »