Acres & Acres

25 Years in Rear View

Chris Beytes

The first quarter of the 21st century has been an exciting time to be alive. Let’s relive some of the highlights, shall we?

Cover Story

Invest, Listen & Coach

Neal Glatt

Team performance through employee engagement.

Culture Notes

Growing I’Conia Begonias

Michelle McElhannon

Bred equally for foliage and flower, I’Conia Begonias make a dramatic statement in the garden, combination container gardens and hanging baskets.

Features

Building Tomorrow’s Head Grower

Rayne Gibson

How great operations pass down what works.

Features

Profitability in the Greenhouse: A Practical Guide to Cost Accounting

Bill Swanekamp (condensed by ChatGPT)

In this era of ever-tightening margins, it’s more important than ever to know the true costs of producing each of your crops. But how many of you know your overhead costs in spring vs. fall? Or how many sq. ft. weeks to allocate for 10-in. hanging baskets? Or even know what a sq. ft. week is?

Features

Rooted in People

Todd Downing

Why HR matters in Horticulture.

Features

SOPs in 1-2-3

Katie Elzer-Peters & Heather Prince

Documenting your standard operating procedures can help in multiple areas of your business.

Features

The Future of AFE Research Begins With You!

Laura Barth

Here’s your chance to fuel the solutions our industry needs.

Features

Workforce Finders Keepers

Written by Jennifer Zurko, data compiled by Industry Insights

Our 30th annual survey of the industry on wages and benefits—and the third year we’ve partnered with AmericanHort and Industry Insights to collect the data—shows growers using a variety of means to attract and retain staff.

Growers Talk Business

Does it Matter?

Art Parkerson

What we do as a collective only matters if what we do individually matters, and if what we do individually matters, then what we do collectively must matter, too.

Growers Talk Production

Knowing Where We’ve Been

Trudy Watt

One of the secrets to success in this industry, I believe, is the willingness to review, revise and adapt.

GT in Brief

164-Year-Old Bulb Business Closing

Chris Beytes

Sixth-generation Royal Van Zanten of Hillegom, the Netherlands, will be closing its doors after 164 continuous years in business.

GT in Brief

Back in Business

Chris Beytes

If this aerial photo of Brad’s Bedding in Fort Pierce, Florida, makes the place look brand new that’s because it pretty much is brand new, completely rebuilt one year after a tornado spawned by Hurricane Milton ripped across the property on October 9, 2024.

GT in Brief

Proven Winners Partners With Private Equity to Consolidate Ownership, Expand Capabilities

Chris Beytes

In the first big consolidation/private equity deal horticulture has seen in some time, the owners of Proven Winners have sold a share of their greenhouse businesses and the Proven Winners plant brand to Staple Street Capital, a private equity firm out of New York.

GT in Brief

Restart of Schneider Young Plants

Chris Beytes & Jennifer Zurko

In mid-October, the announcement came out that Schneider B.V. had declared bankruptcy.

GT in Brief

Sakata Partners With Kientzler in Guatemala Cutting Farm

Chris Beytes

Sakata (AKA Sakata America Holding Company, Inc.) announced the formation of a new company called Tikal LLC, a joint venture with the Kientzler family of Germany.

Guest Column

Love Gourmansun Sunrise

Lowell Halvorson

Love Gourmansun Sunrise (LGS) is a French-bred tomato whose red-and-gold coloring earned how the formal name of it came to be.

Inside Look

Milestone Musings

Jennifer Zurko

Milestone birthdays force you to grapple with the present you, but also make you look ahead to the future you.

JZ on D.C.

Jennifer Zurko

Annual inflation rose to 3% in September, its highest level since January, driven largely by higher gasoline and energy prices.

Paul's Pointers

Time for a Seasonal Reset

Paul Pilon

Take the time during slow seasons to reflect on past experiences, identify opportunities for improvements, and to formulate ideas and plans that can be implemented in the upcoming busy season.

Pest Management

Battling Botrytis

Janna Beckerman, Ph.D.

Seedlings, cuttings, blossoms and buds are especially at risk for Botrytis, often collapsing before they ever reach the sales bench. The result? Lower quality, lost marketability and plenty of frustration.

Pest Management

Two-Spot Cotton Leafhopper on Hibiscus

Muhammad Z. “Zee” Ahmed

Status, simple biology and early control lessons for U.S. ornamental production.

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