Educational Webinars
New Varieties Week 2023
GPN’s New Varieties Week, featured 60-minute webcasts by companies presenting their new varieties for 2024!
This year we will here from Suntory Flowers and Bailey Nurseries.
What’s on the Horizon in the Coming Year for Consumers, Legislation, Labor & Your Plants.
Presenting the fifth annual Big Grower Executive Webinar! Hear insights from Bridget Behe, Ph.D., Michigan State University; Sara Neagu-Reed and Evan Lee, AmericanHort; and Diane Blazek, All-America Selections as they examine the issues facing our industry and help growers make sense of these challenging topics and how they could influence the industry in 2023.
Selecting the Right Lighting System for Your CEA Crop
Lighting up CEA crops: Selecting a lighting system that works for you.
There has been a huge increase in the options available for CEA lighting fixtures and control systems. Where should a grower begin with selecting their lighting system? The session will start with a refresher on lighting needs for the most common CEA crops. Neil will then discuss the most important factors when choosing a lighting system, including: light output, up-front cost, energy efficiency, and spectrum. Learn about calculator tools available to determine your own lighting needs and run scenarios to see which fixture will be most cost effective for you in the long-run. Advanced plant lighting controls determine how much light is available from the sun and precisely deliver the supplemental light needed without wasting money on over lighting. Neil will present research based results on the energy savings of advanced lighting control.
2022 Plant Health Management Week
Day 1
Impacts of Water Quality on Pest Management with Raymond Cloyd, Ph.D.
Raymond A. Cloyd, Ph.D. professor and extension specialist in Horticultural Entomology/Plant Protection, Department of Entomology, Kansas State University. Raymond’s professional specialty areas include: plant protection, biological control, plant-insect interactions, insect ecology, pesticides, integrating pesticides with biological control agents, and sanitation.
Day 2
Disease Management with Carrie Lapaire Harmon, Ph.D.
Carrie Harmon, Ph.D. has worked in diagnostics for 20 years and currently leads a research, teaching, and extension program that focuses on disease diagnosis, assay development, and diagnostic training. Dr. Harmon teaches online courses in plant disease diagnosis and applied disease management, provides hands-on diagnostic training to traditional students and professionals, and conducts research to improve plant disease detection and diagnosis. Additionally, her research has included comparative analyses and development of ring testing procedures for the improvement of disease detection and diagnostics.
Day 3
Plant Growth Regulators with Roberto Lopez, Ph.D.
Roberto Lopez, Ph.D. is an assistant professor and controlled environment/floriculture extension specialist with a 45% research, 30% teaching, and 25% extension appointment in the Department of Horticulture at Michigan State University. His research focuses on propagation and production of young and finish plants (floriculture, leafy green, and culinary herb crops) in greenhouses, growth rooms/containers, warehouse-based plant factories, and vertical farms.
2022 Cannabis & Hemp Week
Day 1 of Cannabis & Hemp Week with Aaron Van Wingerden.
From Ornamentals to Hemp
Aaron will share his experiences as the founder of Royale Botanicals, a wholesale industrial hemp cultivation facility with its own, bred-in-house genetics. In this interactive webinar, he will tackle similarities and differences between growing ornamentals and hemp: cultivating superior hemp genetics; promoting the superiority of clones over seedlings; and tackling the hemp industry as a whole.
Day 2 of Cannabis & Hemp Week.
Cannabis Economics & What Growers Need to Know
Join the authors of “Can Legal Weed Win? The Blunt Realities of Cannabis Economics” for some unadulterated facts about the new legal segments of an old industry. Dan Sumner and Robin Goldstein will give a whirlwind tour of the economic past, present, and future of legal and illegal cannabis.
Day 3 of Cannabis & Hemp Week.
Panel Discussion
An interactive conversation with Editorial Director Abby McGarry and a panel of growers, including Colin Clark, owner of Never Winter Botanicals; Travis Higginbotham, vice president of production at Harborside Inc.; Sean Sangster, regional director of cultivation at Curaleaf; and Javier Garces, horticulture advisor at Treadwell Farms.
New Varieties Week 2022
GPN’s New Varieties Week, featured 60-minute webcasts by companies presenting their new varieties for 2023! During the webcasts, attendees heard from Suntory Flowers, Danziger and Dümmen Orange as they presented their new introductions for the 2023 season.
Suntory Flowers
Danziger
Dümmen Orange
Big Grower Executive Webinar 2021
OUTLOOK 2022:
What’s on the Horizon in the Coming Year for the Economy, Consumers and Legislation
Presenting the fourth annual Big Grower Executive Webinar! Hear exclusive insight from Dr. Charlie Hall, Craig Regelbrugge and Dr. Bridget Behe as they examine the up-to-the-minute issues facing our industry and help growers make sense of these complicated topics and how they could influence the industry in the coming year.
Sponsored by:
NuFarm 
Hydroponic Production Systems for Leafy Greens and Herbs
Many factors play into selection of hydroponic systems for greens and herbs: cost, maintenance, ease of use, crop performance and automation. In this webinar, Neil Mattson discussed the most common systems including deep water culture, nutrient film technique, vertical towers and aeroponic systems. Pros and cons of each system, factors to consider and tips for success including care and management.
Sponsored by: bpgrower.com
Pest Management: The Fundamentals of Sanitation in Greenhouse Production Systems
An effective integrated pest management (IPM) program begins with proper sanitation practices in the greenhouse. During this one-hour webinar, watch and learn about what you can do to keep your greenhouses clean and minimize the impact of insects on your crops.
Sponsored by:
NuFarm
2021 Cannabis & Hemp Week
To view the sessions on-demand, click on the following links:
Day 2: Lighting up CEA Hemp
Day 3: Panel Discussion – The Latest Tales from the Greenhouse and Field
Sponsored by: Arbojet, Beaver Plastics, Griffin, SunGro
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