How Was Your Spring?   Greenhouse Product News August 2010   By Tim Hodson and Shanna Casey
Every spring is a big question mark for growers: Will sales be up or down? How are profits going to be affected this year? What kind of an impact will the economy have on consumers? How will the weather be? Read on to see what happened for our readers this year.
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Fungus Gnat Adults and Growing Media   Greenhouse Product News July 2010   By Raymond A. Cloyd, Karen A. Marley, Richard A. Larson and Bari Arieli
How attractive are parboiled rice hulls and related media to this greenhouse pest?
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Reducing Greenhouse Energy Consumption   Greenhouse Product News April 2010   By Ryan Warner and Erik Runkle
Growers are on tight budgets and under pressure to be more sustainable. MSU researchers are hard at work looking for solutions to help them with both
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Bright Ideas in the Works   Greenhouse Product News February 2010   By Erik Runkle and Ryan Warner
Research at Michigan State University is under way to improve crop quality through lighting and PGR use.

OSU Learning Gardens: 2008 Mixed Container Trial   Greenhouse Product News October 2009   By Bart Hayes and Claudio Pasian
With plants from four companies and plenty of monocultures and mixed containers to evaluate over the summer, the sixth year of this university’s trials focused on the combinations’ sustainability of design.
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Silicon-Based Fertilizers and Insect Pests   Greenhouse Product News August 2009   By Ray Cloyd
Some have suggested that silicon-based fertilizers can prevent insect outbreaks in greenhouse plants — but is there any basis for those claims?
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Factors Affecting Activity of PGR Media Applications   Greenhouse Product News July 2009   By Jim Barrett, Jessica Boldt and Carolyn Bartuska
With all the recent developments in the world of plant growth regulators, both in the products available and the methods to use them, it’s important to understand the factors affecting each PGR, depending on how they’re applied.
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Manipulating Light In the Greenhouse   Greenhouse Product News June 2009   By Matthew Blanchard and Erik Runkle
New technology for long-day lighting has been developed for greenhouse production. How does it stack up to the options currently available?
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Breeding Brilliance   Greenhouse Product News June 2009   By Rosanna Freyre, Dave Clark, Zhanao Deng, Brent Harbaugh and Jake Henny
The University of Florida’s breeding program involves a diverse array of projects spearheaded by a group of talented plant scientists.
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Enhancing Postharvest Performance   Greenhouse Product News April 2009   By Ria T. Leonard and Terril A. Nell
The floriculture postharvest research program at the University of Florida works to enhance flowers’ quality and extend their lives once they reach the consumer.
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