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

10/21/25, 05:30 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, | Lighting

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

09/23/25, 05:36 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, | Lighting | CEA, | Grow Lights, | LED

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

09/04/25, 11:32 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, | Lighting

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

08/20/25, 05:28 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, | Lighting

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.

How Supplemental Lighting Contributes to Higher Yields and Profits

07/08/25, 05:14 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, | Lighting | CEA, | Controlled Environment Agriculture, | Greenhouses, | LED

Supplemental lighting is a vital part of maximizing yield and profit in Canada's limited growing season. Growers should contact Sollum for solutions.

Scaling Your Grow Operation: Choosing the Right Lighting for High-Volume Production

07/01/25, 05:36 PM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, | Lighting | Growlights

Scaling your grow operation is a significant milestone that requires careful planning, especially when it comes to selecting the right lighting solutions. High-volume production demands lighting systems that ensure consistent light distribution, energy efficiency, scalabilit

Modern Machines for Automated Agriculture - How Modern Seedling Transplanting Works

06/03/25, 05:34 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, | Supply Chain | robotics, | seeding

With more automation and robotics in agriculture, the way food is grown is changing significantly. This brings numerous benefits, including improved efficiency and productivity, as well as more sustainable and environmentally friendly farming practices.

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How Thermoformed Agricultural Plastics Support Farm Efficiency & Hygiene Practices

08/29/25, 05:42 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, | Precision Farming | Greenhouses

In this article, Ansini, specialists in agriculture thermoforming, look at why thermoformed plastics are emerging as an ideal material choice for farms, balancing hygiene, cost and sustainability.

Vertical Farming Market to Surpass USD 19.7 Billion by 2034

08/18/25, 05:43 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, | Lighting

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

07/09/25, 05:45 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, | Lighting | Greenhouses

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.

Propane, greenhouses, vertical farming, and the food supply

10/27/25, 06:29 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming | Supply Chain

Propane plays a key role in greenhouse and vertical farming, helping control growing environments efficiently. The Wildhorse Propane & Appliance team explores how this clean fuel supports the shift toward sustainable indoor farming.

Light Science Technologies renews partnership with Gavita International to supply Agrolux LED range in the UK & Eire

10/24/25, 05:28 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming | Lighting

Controlled environment agriculture specialist, Light Science Technologies (LST), announces their renewed partnership with Gavita International, continuing their distribution of world-leading Agrolux LEDs.

Growers Edge Launches Agcor Xplor: the First Generative AI Platform for Agricultural Mortgage Lending

10/21/25, 07:31 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming | Precision Farming

First-of-its-kind tool empowers lenders to query massive datasets with plain language and transform how they access, analyze, and act on agricultural data

Photophyll™ Select from CREE LED

Photophyll™ Select from CREE LED

Photophyll Select is a new phosphor-converted LED color with blue and green spectral output tuned for horticulture applications. These LEDs are designed to replace the white LEDs that are common in two-channel white + red horticulture luminaires. By maximizing green content and minimizing red content versus standard lighting LEDs, this LED color enables significant enhancements to luminaire cost and performance. Photophyll Select LEDs are the industry's first LEDs to be entirely binned in horticulture metrics, enabling more straightforward spectrum design without confusing translations or conversions. The spectral output of these LEDs is binned into two metrics, both of which are based on the amount of PPF in standard Blue (400-499 nm), Green (500-599 nm) and Red (600-700 nm) bands. The two spectral metrics are percentage of Red PPF content and the ratio of Green to Blue PPF content.

Sollum Technologies

(Montréal, QC, Canada)

Sollum Technologies offers a 100% dynamic LED lighting solution that modulates the full spectrum of the Sun's natural light. With our cloud-based platform SUN as a Service® and our smart fixtures, enjoy the flexibility of unlimited light recipes & multi-zone light management, and automatic dimming that provides the right amount of light in real time at any given time to save energy.