Greenhouse Product News

NGB opens entries for the 2024 Green Thumb Award

National Garden Bureau (NGB), the 103-year-old non-profit organization that promotes gardening on behalf of the horticulture industry, is now accepting entries for the 2024 Green Thumb Award. Entries can be live good or hard goods.... more »

Dümmen Orange senior plant breeder and manager Dr. Ruth Kobayashi

San Diego Botanic Garden honors 2023 Paul Ecke Jr. Award winner

Dr. Ruth Kobayashi, senior plant breeder and manager for Dümmen Orange was named the 2023 Paul Ecke Jr. Award of Excellence winner by San Diego Botanic Garden. This prestigious honor is named after the late... more »

California LGMA adopts GreenLink data sharing platform

Members of the California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement (LGMA) will adopt Western Growers' proprietary GreenLink data sharing platform to collect and analyze food safety data. This movement towards industry cohesion means that the leafy green industry... more »

Monrovia welcomes Jimmy McCanlies, new national sales coach

Monrovia, the nation’s leading grower of premium ornamental and landscaping plants, is announcing that Jimmy McCanlies is joining the company as its new national sales coach. With more than 25 years of experience in agriculture... more »

AgroFresh finalizes Tessara acquisition

AgroFresh Solutions Inc., an AgTech company specializing in post-harvest produce freshness and quality solutions, announced it has completed the acquisition of Tessara. South African-based Tessara is an industry provider of intelligent packaging solutions for preserving... more »

Pop Vriend’s 2023 PopFest takes place in September

PopFest, an event is for growers, distributors and partners to discover Pop Vriend's newest varieties and latest innovations, will be held Sep. 25-29, 2023. The PopFest Open Days take place at the breeding station in... more »

Profile Horticulture expands Nutricote distribution

Profile Products has been awarded national distribution rights for Nutricote controlled release fertilizer (CRF) in all 50 U.S. states. Nutricote is Profile’s flagship nutritional product line and is a NPK homogeneous coated fertilizer. Prior to... more »

Signify, Wageningen University & Research collaborate on demonstration center

Signify and Wageningen University & Research have extended its collaboration in the Innovation & Demonstration Center in Bleiswijk for the application of Philips GreenPower LED lighting in horticulture (IDC-LED). This partnership will allow research into... more »