"It teaches students about local sourcing, growing your own food, as well as saves money for the food service department by ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University’s horticulture department will host its first ever hydroponic lettuce production workshop on March 29 from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. to provide lettuce producers ...

Krishna Nemali and Petrus Langenhoven ([email protected], 765-496-7955), Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University A question many growers are asking is whether ...

As controlled environment agriculture and vertical farming gain a greater foothold in modern agriculture, a new $300,000 grant aims to enhance hydroponic lettuce production. Kristen Gibson, director ...

Josh Scott is a University of Arizona entrepreneurial student and mechanical engineer who wants to be a lettuce farmer. It may sound like a waste of a couple of potentially lucrative, or at least ...

The midmorning temperature on the hillside just outside Ithaca is 18 degrees. Light snow is falling. The landscape is bleak, and the ground is pure white. Inside the Finger Lakes Fresh greenhouse, ...

Right now, hydroponic and indoor grown lettuce account for around 4-5% of lettuce production in the US, but that figure will rise “substantially” in the coming years as more growers prove that water ...

The Giant Company donated $20,000 to Harrisburg University of Science and Technology to fund the purchase of equipment needed to finish greenhouse renovations at HU’s hydroponic production system at ...

The steady march of industrial automation continues to envelop the world. Many of us have a quaint early 20th century vision of agriculture, but the truth is that the farmer of the 21st century is a ...

Whether it comes to addressing our nation's stressed food supply chain, its labor shortage and even such weighty matters as climate change, LaRosa’s is doing what it can to deliver. Last month, in an ...