Acres & Acres

When 25 Equals 100

Chris Beytes

Part 3 of “Plan for profit, plant to plan,” as explained by Dr. Will Healy.

Columns

Aloha Aphids

Paul Pilon

With the warm winter much of the country has experienced, the arrival of aphids is likely to be slightly earlier this year.

Columns

Broad Mites: Don’t Let Their Size Fool You!

Rick Yates

While broad mites themselves may go undetected, the damage they cause certainly does not.

Columns

Keep That Grease Coming

Jennifer Zurko

Think about the problems you have in your business—they range from small potatoes to huge issues, right? How do you know which ones to tackle first?

Columns

Mistaken? Probably …

Sylvia Schaap

Mistakes, although they’re penalized with a poor grade in school and met with displeasure in the workforce, are important in the development of skill and knowledge.

Columns

The Sneaky Little Moth That Tried to Eat Us Out of House & Home

Paul Westervelt

It was another one of those industry news flashes about some new pest I’d never heard of that was a new problem on a crop we barely grew. I hadn’t seen symptoms and I forgot about it as quickly as I’d read about it.

Cover Story

What to Watch For

Jennifer Zurko

What the experts anticipate this year’s largest insect and diseases headaches could be.

Features

Does Feeding Your Plants Affect Aphids?

John Sanderson, Neil Mattson, Elizabeth Lamb & Liza White

Brand new research is trying to determine whether some fertilizers can actually help keep aphid populations in check.

Features

Offense Over Defense

Dr. Daniel Peck

Preventing pest problems before they start.

Features

Out of the Shadows

Ellen C. Wells

Nature’s Way Nursery of Miami just may be the biggest southern landscape, tropicals and shrub nursery you’ve never heard of.

Features

Planning for Pests

Nancy Rechcigl

An agronomic approach to pest management.

Features

Take Your Poinsettia Cuttings for a Dip

Rose Buitenhuis

Starting clean is key to biocontrol success.

Features

Where Do You Buy Bios?

Allison Westbrook

Beneficial organisms can solve a whole host of pest problems. But where do you get them and what do you do with them after they arrive?

Features

WOTUS: Protecting Waters & Creating Confusion

Jennifer Duffield White

How a rule that was supposed to clarify a definition created mass confusion and became the poster child for government overreach.

Growers Talk Business

Searching for Daniel-san

Art Parkerson

Is it unreasonable to tell an employee their job description is “wax on, wax off”?

GT in Brief

2017 Spring Meadow-Proven Winners Scholarship Recipients

Matthew Chappell

The Horticultural Research Institute (HRI), the research arm of AmericanHort, announced the names of the three recipients of the 2017 Spring Meadow–Proven Winners Endowment Fund Scholarship.

GT in Brief

Altman Buying Euro Facility

Chris Beytes

Hot on the heels of their acquisition of Plug Connection last October, Ken and Deena Altman have purchased the plant material of the former EuroAmerican Propagators and have put in an offer on the land and facilities.

GT in Brief

AmericanHort Announces New Industry Leaders

Chris Beytes

When the AmericanHort Board of Directors meets in Columbus, Ohio, at Cultivate’17 in July, they will welcome three newly elected Board Members to the 13-member Board and install a new slate of officers.

GT in Brief

AmericanHort to Manage ONLA

Chris Beytes

The association has announced that they’ll be providing management services to the Ohio Nursery Landscape Association (ONLA). AmericanHort President and CEO Ken Fisher will serve as Executive Director.

GT in Brief

Another Class of EAGLs Takes Flight

Chris Beytes

Dr. Charlie Hall, Ellison Chair for International Floriculture at Texas A&M, is proud to announce the graduation of the fourth cohort of his elite “EAGL” business leaders—Executive Academy for Growth & Leadership.

GT in Brief

Democracy in Action

Jennifer Zurko

The current political climate may make you want to cut yourself off from all news outlets and social media platforms, but it’s for this very reason that constituents and small business owners need to make sure they have the ears of their legislators.

GT in Brief

Emerald Coast Growers Builds State-of-the-Art New Seed House

Jennifer Zurko

Emerald Coast Growers has added a seed house to increase production efficiency at its Florida operations.

GT in Brief

FarmedHere Shuts Down

Chris Beytes

FarmedHere, a large warehouse growing business in the Chicago suburbs, has closed its doors.

GT in Brief

On The Move

Jennifer Zurko

BALL HORTICULTURAL CO.; EASON HORTICULTURAL RESOURCES; HARRIS SEEDS; H.E. ANDERSON COMPANY; HOFFMAN NURSERY; WATERPULSE

GT in Brief

One Expands, One Retires

Chris Beytes

We’ve got a well-respected, large, first-generation greenhouse with owners who want to expand and a well-respected, mid-sized, third-generation greenhouse with an owner who wants to retire. They get together, strike a deal and everybody’s happy!

GT in Brief

Win a Trip to Hawaii

Chris Beytes

The Hawaii Export Nursery Association is hosting the Aloha Plantscape Awards and the winner gets a free trip to the islands!

New Products

Adriana Heikkila

PanAmerican Seed; Argus Control Systems Ltd.; Atlas Manufacturing Inc.; Star Roses and Plants; Bushel and Berry; Nexus Greenhouse Systems

SAF in the Lobby

President Trump Signs Order to Begin WOTUS Repeal Process

Society of American Florists

President Trump has signed an executive order instructing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers to “review and reconsider” a rule seeking to broaden the definition of navigable waters and potentially affecting flower growing operations.

Under an Acre

From Truck to Tractor

Anne-Marie Hardie

For the Schipper family, the journey to enter the greenhouse business began 18 years ago, when John Schipper, a trucker who hauled grain, made a stop at a farm that was growing greenhouse peppers and tomatoes.