Lighting

How LED Lighting from Current Is Feeding Thousands in Texas

{Sponsored} Located at the State Fair of Texas®, Big Tex Urban Farms is part innovation lab, part production facility and fully on a mission to grow fresh produce for food-desert communities. A food-desert area is... more »

Light Fixtures and Their Photon Fluxes

Until recently, there were only three major types of lighting fixtures used for the production of plants in controlled environments: incandescent bulbs for photoperiodic lighting, high-pressure sodium fixtures for supplemental lighting in greenhouses, and fluorescent... more »

LED Grow Lighting 101 Whitepaper

{Sponsored} Check out “LED Grow Lighting: A Guide to Greater Yields, More Harvests and Higher Profits," for an in-depth technical overview of the impact of light on plant growth from GE Current, a Daintree company.... more »

P.L. Light Systems Celebrates 40th Anniversary

P.L. Light Systems has reached an exciting milestone, as the company celebrates 40 years of delivering professional grow light systems to the horticulture industry. The company distributes products across the U.S., Canada and South American... more »

“Hidden” Benefits of Supplemental Lighting

Greenhouse growers in temperate climates do not take light for granted. Sunlight is among the most limiting factors in the production of greenhouse crops grown from late fall to early spring, when the days are... more »

Managing Light & Disease

Greenhouse production allows growers the freedom to grow year-round. Though these structures are controlled and mostly protected from outdoor environments, seasonal trends still exert some influence on crop growth. During winter months, conditions such as... more »

Valoya Hires New VP for North America

Valoya has hired Wes Eaton as the company's vice president of sales in North America. With extensive experience in horticulture and business development, Eaton will be tasked with driving... more »

Early Scaling-Up Challenges with LED Lighting

The fundamental advantages of light-emitting diode (LED) lighting are clear. They are increasingly efficient at converting electricity into photosynthetic light, and their rated lifetime is much longer than conventional fixtures. However, this is still a... more »