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IGrow PreOwned 9/28/17 IGrow PreOwned 9/28/17

Meeting The Environmental Challenge of Growing Food Crops

“The environmental control challenges for vegetables are much tougher because the produce is going to be consumed,” said University of Guelph professor Mike Dixon, who is director of the Controlled Environment Systems Research Facility in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. “The fact that they are destined to be a food commodity requires more attention to things like pest control.

IGrow PreOwned 9/13/17 IGrow PreOwned 9/13/17

Philips Lighting Horticulture LED Solutions adds BWI Grower Technical Sales to North America Partner Network

“We recognize the value of partnering with well-established horticulture suppliers and manufacturers to support our efforts to bring Philips Horticulture LED to greenhouse growers in a highly efficient manner,” said Ron DeKok, Philips Horticulture LED Business Development Director.

IGrow PreOwned 9/11/17 IGrow PreOwned 9/11/17

How to Grow Vine Crops With LEDs

The guide is intended to instruct vine crop growers how to use LED lighting strategies to maximize profits, boost yields, increase crop quality, and elicit desired plant characteristics.

IGrow PreOwned 9/6/17 IGrow PreOwned 9/6/17

Nanochemistry Innovator Debuts GrowBlade™ Flat-Panel Growlights at NYC AgTech Week

Light Polymers’ GrowBlade™ flat-panel grow lights are part of a new generation of LED lights that improve the productivity of multi-layer indoor cultivation for leafy greens and herbs, seedlings, clones, grafts and tissue culture. GrowBlade™ flat panels are made possible by our proprietary Crystallin® lyotropic coating and suspension chemistry which is water-based, lowering manufacturing costs.

IGrow PreOwned 8/28/17 IGrow PreOwned 8/28/17

Philips Lighting Signs New Horticultural LED Lighting Project With Longtime Partner Wim Peters

In total, Philips Lighting will install over 26,000 GreenPower LED interlighting modules in the two rebuilt greenhouses and the greenhouse that is scheduled to be built in October 2017.

IGrow PreOwned 8/25/17 IGrow PreOwned 8/25/17

LED Grow Lights Reshape Agriculture

While LEDs can reduce the operating expense over metal halide and fluorescent grow lights, the real win is when the LED grow lights can shave 10 percent or more off of the grow time to harvest.

IGrow PreOwned 8/16/17 IGrow PreOwned 8/16/17

LumiGrow Partners With CF Industrial For Local Lighting Service in Ontario, Canada

“We are happy to welcome CF Industrial as a LumiGrow Canada Partner. This partnership will ensure that our superior level of technical support can be deployed immediately upon short notice. Our local lighting specialists will be able to personally visit and consult with commercial growers in Ontario, assisting with lighting implementation, as well as environmental and horticultural considerations.” says VP of Sales and Marketing, Jay Albere.

IGrow PreOwned 8/1/17 IGrow PreOwned 8/1/17

Lumigrow LED Growers Guide for Vine Crops

LumiGrow solutions are eligible for energy-efficiency subsidies from utilities across North America.

IGrow PreOwned 7/22/17 IGrow PreOwned 7/22/17

Philips Lighting Begins Largest LED Horticultural Lighting Project In The World

“This LED horticultural project is the largest in the world. It will reduce the electricity consumed to light the crop by up to 50 percent compared with conventional horticultural lighting and uses light recipes designed to boost quality and crop yields by up to 30 percent in the dark period of the winter,” said Udo van Slooten, business leader for Philips Lighting’s horticultural lighting business.

IGrow PreOwned 7/21/17 IGrow PreOwned 7/21/17

Kind LED Grow Lights - The Best Grow Lights

The conversation about the best grow lights, whether HID or LED lights, continues to be a hot topic. With the quickly emerging hydroponic and vertical farming movement, the conversation now expands further than HID vs LED and begs the question of which LED light is the best grow light.

IGrow PreOwned 7/14/17 IGrow PreOwned 7/14/17

LumiGrow Brings Smart Horticultural Lighting to Cultivate'17

Cultivate ’17, North America’s largest horticultural tradeshow is set to use the entirety of the newly expanded and renovated Greater Columbus Convention Center (GCCC). AmericanHort’s Cultivate’17, July 15-18 in Columbus, OH, is the horticulture industry’s renowned professional development event with the largest all-industry trade show. AmericanHort estimates about 10,000 attendees, more than 125 educational sessions and close to 700 exhibitors.

IGrow PreOwned 7/13/17 IGrow PreOwned 7/13/17

Philips Lighting Develops a New Growth Recipe to Reach Seven Times The Average "Vitamin C" Content in Arugula

Philips Lighting (Euronext Amsterdam ticker: LIGHT), a global leader in lighting, today announced that its GrowWise Research Center has produced a vitamin C-rich arugula with seven times higher vitamin C[1] content than the published USDA value of 15 mg/100 gr.

IGrow PreOwned 6/28/17 IGrow PreOwned 6/28/17

Indoor Farming Plus Made in USA LED Grow Lights: Profile 1.7

This is one of the profiles in an ongoing series covering next generation agriculture. We are seeing an increased trend for indoor farming across the United States and around the world.

IGrow PreOwned 6/15/17 IGrow PreOwned 6/15/17

Philips Lighting Horticulture LED Solutions Adds Horticoop Scandinavia A/S to its Partner Network

“Our decision to partner with Horticoop Scandinavia A/S is made after we recently completed our first project in Denmark for Queen Flowers, a high quality producer and breeder of Kalanchoe,” explained Udo van Slooten, Managing Director of Philips Lighting Horticulture LED Solutions.

IGrow PreOwned 6/15/17 IGrow PreOwned 6/15/17

LEDs For Vertical Farming: Buying Guide For Lights

Trying to figure out the right LED lights to buy can be an overwhelming experience. There are more specs, stats, and engineering minutiae packed into product pages for LED lights than anyone running a business should have to parse through.