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Glase Uses Outreach Activities To Inform And Educate Growers, Manufacturers And Suppliers

The goal of the Greenhouse Lighting and Systems Engineering (GLASE) consortium is to create a more sustainable and profitable greenhouse industry

IGrow PreOwned 7/17/19 IGrow PreOwned 7/17/19

Heliospectra Continues Global Expansion With Tokyo Office

General Manager Yasuhiro Suzuki to Lead Installations of Heliospectra’s integrated LED and helioCORE™ Light Control Solutions for Japan’s Plant Factories and Vertical Farms

IGrow PreOwned 7/16/19 IGrow PreOwned 7/16/19

2019 Five-Day Introductory Training Course on Plant Factory With Artificial Lighting (PFAL)

In response to increasing global demands from indoor farmers, researchers and future entrepreneurs in the exciting emerging field of plant factory with artificial lighting (PFAL), also known as vertical farm, this coming September

IGrow PreOwned 7/14/19 IGrow PreOwned 7/14/19

Great Lakes Growers

An early LED adopter, Bonner began trialing LEDs in 2015, and after seeing the success in a small area, expanded his Philips LED toplighting installation in 2016, again in 2017, and will install Philips grow lights with his greenhouse expansion

IGrow PreOwned 7/13/19 IGrow PreOwned 7/13/19

IHS ‘Ready to Grow’ Horticultural LED Grow Lights Named As Innovative New Product Winner at HTA National Plant Show

Intelligent Horticultural Solutions (IHS) was thrilled to be announced the Innovation winner in the New Product Showcase at the HTA National Plant Show, which took place on 18-19 June 2019 at Stoneleigh Park, Coventry.

IGrow PreOwned 7/12/19 IGrow PreOwned 7/12/19

Is Vertical Farming Really the Future of Agriculture?

Indoor, LED-lit growing operations produce food without soil or sunlight — but scaling up could prove difficult

IGrow PreOwned 7/11/19 IGrow PreOwned 7/11/19

U.S. Vertical Farms Are Racing Against The Sun

Leafy salad greens grown under banks of LED lights, with mist or drips of water are having their day in the sun. Several top U.S. indoor farms, stacked with plants from floor to ceiling, tell Reuters they are boosting production to a level where they can now supply hundreds of grocery stores

IGrow PreOwned 7/10/19 IGrow PreOwned 7/10/19

Recently, FOX Business Aired A Segment About Full Spectrum LED Grow Lights And Spectrum King LED

Spectrum King LED, the pioneer of full spectrum LED Grow Lights (patent No.10238043), specializes in designing, manufacturing and selling professional-grade LED grow lights for indoor grows and greenhouse applications.

IGrow PreOwned 6/26/19 IGrow PreOwned 6/26/19

LEDs and LED Systems For Horticultural Growth - Horticultural Seminars

Join OSRAM Opto Semiconductors, world leaders in LED technology for horticultural and agricultural applications, with Intelligent Horticultural Solutions (IHS), their UK Systems Integration Partner, for a free one-day seminar

IGrow PreOwned 6/13/19 IGrow PreOwned 6/13/19

Wageningen University Proves Viability of Fluence by OSRAM LEDs

Dr. Heuvelink, and his team at WUR, tested PhysioSpec Greenhouse in comparison to HPS lighting from a recognized vendor. The research was conducted on Tomagino and Merlice tomato cultivars. WUR will publish the full data set later this year

IGrow PreOwned 6/12/19 IGrow PreOwned 6/12/19

Canon Exploring The Vision of Indoor Agriculture

A small team based out of Richmond, Virginia brought a prototype vision system for the indoor vertical farm industry

IGrow PreOwned 6/3/19 IGrow PreOwned 6/3/19

June 12, 2019 - LED Conference During GreenTech

The application of the LED technology can propel a cultivation business or a plant research project forward but can also pose challenges

IGrow PreOwned 6/3/19 IGrow PreOwned 6/3/19

TotalGrow Launches New Mult-HI Light Fixtures

These high intensity, multi-bar light fixtures from 170-640W at up to 2.7 µmol/J provide exceptional growing power, quality and uniformity with excellent affordability and ease of implementation, all at only 2” thick

IGrow PreOwned 6/3/19 IGrow PreOwned 6/3/19

"Vertical Farming Is A Viable Solution For Urban Environments"

What are the key factors to operating a successful vertical farm?
I think the two key factors for creating a successful and profitable vertical farm are 1) the choice of crop and 2) the choice of technology

IGrow PreOwned 5/30/19 IGrow PreOwned 5/30/19

KropTek Announces Angel Capital Raise of £3 Million

KropTek announces Angel Capital Raise of £3 million

IGrow PreOwned 5/29/19 IGrow PreOwned 5/29/19

"By Water-Cooling Our LEDs, We Reduce Heat And Air Conditioning Load"

Cannabis growing facilities are known to generate a great amount of heat which, if not monitored and controlled properly, could result in issues that require a real big effort and a substantial amount of money to fix

IGrow PreOwned 5/16/19 IGrow PreOwned 5/16/19

Samsung Introduces Benefits of Horticulture LEDs for Vertical Farming

The development of agricultural innovation has become more and more urgent than ever given the factors of increasing world population and global warming

IGrow PreOwned 5/15/19 IGrow PreOwned 5/15/19

Growing The Future: High-Tech Farmers Are Using LED Lights In Ways That Seem To Border On Science Fiction

Thousands of young collard greens are growing vigorously under a glow of pink-purple lamps in a scene that seems to have come from a sci-fi movie, or at least a NASA experiment

IGrow PreOwned 5/9/19 IGrow PreOwned 5/9/19

Valoya To Host The LEDs & Innovators Conference At GreenTech Again

Valoya announces the second edition of this event, to be held on June 12th, the second day of this year’s GreenTech

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[Going Green 2] How Samsung is Helping To Take Healthy Food From Farm To Table

As awareness of environmental issues grows, the impacts of the agricultural industry and our own personal food consumption are of increasing public concern