Controlled Environment Agriculture

Growing Up

The relatively new frontier of indoor vertical growing now has USDA support. A multistate team of university researchers has a four-year USDA specialty crop research initiative (SCRI) grant to study the best practices and economics... more »

Sakata, OnePointOne Collaborate on Vertical Farming Initiative

OnePointOne and Sakata Seed America announced a new collaboration in the acceleration of vertical farming. Together, the two leading entities will share intelligence and analysis focused on maximizing plant outputs while minimizing environmental impact. The... more »

Researchers Debut New Indoor Farming Online Resource

A free, online resource is now available that growers can use to help make their indoor farming businesses more productive and profitable. It’s a website featuring research results from six horticulture, engineering and agricultural economics... more »

Griffin Publishes 2021 CEA Catalog

Griffin, one of the largest horticultural brokers and suppliers in the United States, announced that it has added a new CEA catalog to its series of already published catalogs for the grower industry. This latest... more »

Bushel Boy Farms Names New President of Iowa Operations

Bushel Boy Farms, a producer of fresh, local, greenhouse-grown produce year-round in the upper Midwest, has named Chuck Tryon president of its operations in Owatonna, Minnesota and Mason City, Iowa. Tryon’s breadth and depth of... more »

Gotham Greens to Open California Facility

On March 2, Gotham Greens announced its latest state-of-the-art greenhouse in California near the University of California-Davis. Located in Solano County, California, the first phase of Gotham Greens’ 10-acre greenhouse facility is expected to open in 2021 and will enable... more »

UF to Host Virtual Field Day on Compact Vegetable Evaluation

On Jan. 20, the University of Florida will host a virtual field day to provide greenhouse growers with information on new compact tomato, pepper and cucumber cultivars for patio and indoor gardening. Participants will learn... more »

GPN to Present Webinar on CEA Production

"Managing Temperature, Humidity and Light for Greenhouse Vegetables" will be the topic of a free one-hour webinar scheduled to take place Oct. 27, at 2 p.m. EDT. Presented by GPN, the webinar will be led... more »