Acres & Acres

Operators

Chris Beytes

What makes someone a true “operator” vs. just an owner?

Cover Story

Must-Have Meters

Jennifer Zurko

Regardless of the size and technological level of your operation, these handy—and most times, inexpensive—greenhouse tools can be life-savers.

Features

A Good Partnership

Dr. Brian E. Jackson & Turner Smith

How substrates amended with wood affect the use of PGRs.

Features

Injector Tune-Up Time

Lela Kelly

Some simple steps that will ensure your injectors will be accurate and function properly this coming spring.

Features

Lighting Young Plants Indoors

Erik Runkle, Yujin Park, Mengzi Zhang & Paul Fisher

Part one of a five-part series is an introduction to producing young plants indoors in fully controlled environments from a collaboration between Michigan State University, the American Floral Endowment and the University of Florida.

Features

Managing Temperature in Herbs

Christopher J. Currey

The fourth article in the series highlights how temperature affects herb production.

Features

Sweet Science

Sylvia Schaap

How using a Brix Refractometer can help you gauge the health of your crop.

Features

The Roads That Lead to Salty Water

Rosa E. Raudales & Ryan Dickson

The third of a four-part article series on grower case studies looks at an operation dealing with high sodium and chloride in their water source.

Growers Talk Business

To H-2A or Not to H-2A? That’s the Question?

Amy Morris

A few years ago, we had 90 seasonal positions to fill. In a 10-week period, we hired 432 people to fill the 90 positions. When we switched to H-2A, we were able to take the 90 positions and replace them with 60 H-2A guest workers.

Growers Talk Production

Biological Control—Reinventing Pests

Albert Grimm

It’s important to understand that we must shift our pest control paradigm from target-and-destroy to balance-and-exclude if we want to be successful with biological control.

Growing With Griffin

Blinded by the Blight

Joanne Lutz

What to do when your foliar disease is actually a soil-borne pathogen.

GT in Brief

AmericanHort HortScholars Program Now Accepting Applications

Jennifer Zurko

The 2019 AmericanHort HortScholars program is now accepting applications through March 1, 2019 from enthusiastic students in horticulture-related degree programs of any degree level.

GT in Brief

Bayer Facility Wins Community Award

Chris Beytes

The Research and Educational facility of Bayer Environmental Science has been recognized by Clayton, North Carolina, for achieving “exceptional success through service to their customers and the community.”

GT in Brief

Memorializing a Scientist-Poet

Chris Beytes

The recently inaugurated Francis Kwong Center at PanAmerican Seed’s Linda Vista Farm 2 in Costa Rica commemorates the company’s former Director of Production Research, who passed away from colon cancer in July of 2017 at the age of 65.

GT in Brief

New SNA Scholarship Announced

Jennifer Zurko

The Sidney B. Meadows Scholarship Fund, created in 1989 by the Southern Nursery Association (SNA), is announcing a new named scholarship to honor Dr. Bryson L. James.

GT in Brief

On the Move

Jennifer Zurko

Bartlett Instrument; Bayer; Eason Horticultural Resources; Fall Creek Nursery, Inc.; McHutchison Corporation; Mycorrhizal Applications; Suntory Flowers; Westhoff/PAC Elsner

GT in Brief

Three December Passings

Chris Beytes

David Austin Sr.; Melvin "Mel" Schwanke; Nola Wagner

GT in Brief

United Nations Declares 2020 International Year of Plant Health

Jennifer Zurko

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue commended the United Nations’ decision to designate 2020 as the International Year of Plant Health.

Inside Look

Solutions Up to Scratch

Jennifer Zurko

Have you ever been confronted with a repetitive problem and you just want a simple solution to help you stop the maddening pattern?

JZ on D.C.

Jennifer Zurko

Legal Challenge Tops H-2A News

Paul's Pointers

Water Wise

Paul Pilon

One thing I've observed over the years is that most growers take water for granted and don't have any concerns until they experience a shortage for themselves.

Pest Management

Start Clean by Dipping Unrooted Cuttings

Rose Buitenhuis & Ashley Summerfield

Dipping unrooted cuttings into an oil, soap or biopesticide significantly reduces the risk of pests hitching a ride onto planting stock.

Under an Acre

Returning to Her Farming Roots

Anne-Marie Hardie

Liz Graznak, founder of Happy Hollow Farm in Jamestown, Missouri, grew up gardening with her grandmother.

Young Voices

Our Time in America

Caroline Do Nascimento & Thalia Perez Albela

Having had the opportunity to work in a new country, share with people from different nationalities, cultures and ways of thinking while sharing the common interest of agriculture has proved to be invaluable.

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