Columnist Chris Beytes

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Chris Beytes

Chris Beytes Editor-in-Chief

Editor-in-Chief of GrowerTalks, Green Profit magazine and the Acres Online e-newsletter, Chris has been in horticulture for more than 40 years. He owned his own greenhouse - Indian River Ornamentals - in Merritt Island, Florida, after he graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in journalism and a minor in horticulture. After he and his wife Laurie sold the greenhouse business, he started writing full-time, first for local publications in Florida and then moving to the Chicago area when he began writing for GrowerTalks. He's been with Ball Publishing since 1993 and only thinks about retirement once in a while.

Recent Articles

Pillar SC Fungicide Now Available in California

BASF’s Pillar SC Intrinsic fungicide is now available for use on greenhouse and nursery crops in California.

Selecta One Getting IP Protection for its New Rooting System

Selecta One has developed a very cool new system for sending rooted cuttings across international borders along the same lines of rooting cuttings in paper pockets.

Happy Anniversary, Emerald Coast!

A very happy 35th anniversary to Florida grass, perennial and succulent liner specialist Emerald Coast Growers.

GreenTech North America on for September

The first-ever GreenTech North America, sister show to the big one held in Amsterdam every June, is slated for September 23-24 at the Philadelphia Convention Center.

A New Deep South Trial Comes to Homestead

They’ve launched a new trial in Homestead at the Tropical Research & Education Center, just 10 minutes from Costa’s old trial grounds, and under the able direction of Assistant Professor Xingbo Wu.

In Memoriam: Bob Van Wingerden

We’re very sorry to have to report the passing of Bob Van Wingerden, founder of Catoctin Mountain Growers in Keymar, Maryland.

Seeing Red (and Yellow and Marble and Mojito and …)

Euphorbia pulcherrima may be a love/hate crop for you, but consumers love/love them—or they wouldn’t buy them.

Wake Up & Smell the Coffee

Consumers happily spend the equivalent of $35 per gallon for their favorite fancy drive-up coffee. Don’t you think they’ll spend a few more cents for your beautiful plants?

A Strategy of Change

Winner of the Operational Excellence category in the 2nd annual CEAs—Cultivating Excellence Awards, at Indoor Ag-Con earlier this year, lettuce grower BrightFarms has been flexible in its strategy and bold in its builds. We paid a visit to their newest location in Macon, Georgia, plus spoke with EVP of Operations Eric Dobbins to learn how Macon fits BrightFarms’ strategy, the challenge of growing lettuce in the Deep South, and what the future holds.

Atlas Acquires Stuppy

Consolidation news in the greenhouse structure world, as Atlas Greenhouse of Alapaha, Georgia, acquired one of the oldest names in the U.S. greenhouse world, Stuppy Greenhouse of North Kansas City, Missouri.

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