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Harvest Faster, Smarter: How Precise Lighting Cycles Cut Down Time to Market

One of the most effective (yet underutilized) strategies for accelerating production is optimizing your lighting cycles. With precision-controlled lighting, growers can shorten vegetative phases, stimulate earlier flowering, and ultimately harvest sooner—without compromisi

Multi-Zone Greenhouse Lighting: A Practical Guide to Advanced Dynamic LEDs

Learn how an advanced dynamic LED solution improves yield, quality, and energy efficiency in each bay of a multi-zoned greenhouse.

Lighting Innovation at Tomatoworld

Tomatoworld’s decision to switch from HPS lights to LED lights was mainly driven by the aim to reduce energy consumption. The new lighting was designed to improve crop visibility for visitors while also supporting research activities involving cameras, sensors, and robots.

Crispy lettuce: achieving yield, quality, and longer shelf-life in vertical farms

Our trials with modern cultivars such as Crismina, Finstar, and Hydrolique showed that today’s crispy lettuce can handle higher light levels and warmer temperatures without tip burn, doubling yields compared to low-light, cool conditions, and extending the shelf-life.

Competitive Advantages of LED Greenhouse Lighting

Not all LED greenhouse lights are created equal. Learn how dynamic lighting with real-time spectrum control delivers superior yield, quality, and energy savings.

The Cost of Downtime: How Reliable Lighting Impacts Commercial Profits

In commercial cultivation, uptime is everything. Any disruption—from a single light failure to a complete zone outage—can derail production schedules, reduce yield quality, and cut into profits.

Multi-Channel LED lighting for Greenhouses

Optimizing light levels is crucial for enhancing productivity and maintaining plant health. LED lighting provides an opportunity to achieve just that, with specific benefits for growers transitioning from traditional HPS to high-intensity LED solutions.

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How to Match Crop Production to Climate and Community Needs With Precision Agriculture

Incorporating precision farming helps you maximize crop production and stay on top of climate change. With so many responsibilities to attend to, farmers can benefit from precision agriculture’s innovative technology and ability to limit potential setbacks.

Vertical Farming Market to Surpass USD 19.7 Billion by 2034

Hydroponics remains the preferred method due to its ease of use and proven productivity, followed by other sustainable alternatives.

Looye Kwekers achieves summer production levels in winter tomato cultivation with Philips full LED

The young plants of the Piccolo variety arrived in the brand new 8.2-hectare greenhouse in Burgerveen in mid-October 2024. Four weeks later, the Philips GreenPower toplighting force system supplied by Signify was switched on for the first time.

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Indoor Ag-Con and Sollum Technologies Announce 2026 Scholarship for Doctoral Students in Controlled Environment Agriculture

Graduate Student Will Receive Full Conference Experience, Travel, Lodging - Plus Exclusive Mentorship and Media Opportunities

UbiQD Secures $6M in Growth Capital from Silicon Valley Bank, Appoints Tony Beams as Chief Financial Officer

Venture debt financing will accelerate quantum dot manufacturing scale-up in New Mexico

SecondBloom to Liquidate Bowery Farming's $70 Million Vertical Farming Facility in Locust Grove, Georgia

-Bowery's $70M farm equipment auction -Over 250 Lots of State-of-the-Art Equipment from Never-Commissioned Facility Available at Unprecedented Discount

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New XP-G3 Far Red LEDs Boost Horticulture Performance
New XP-G3 Far Red LEDs Boost Horticulture Performance

New XP-G3 Far Red LEDs Boost Horticulture Performance

Cree LED has introduced its new XLamp® XP-G3 Far Red LEDs, delivering 21% higher efficiency than the previous XP-E2 generation and built with S Line technology for superior sulfur and corrosion resistance in demanding horticulture environments. Available in three optical profiles - standard dome, Horizon70 and Horizon90 - the XP-G3 Far Red offers enhanced light uniformity, flexible beam shaping and seamless drop-in upgrades with its familiar 3.45 mm XP footprint.

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