GrowerTalks & Green Profit Magazine

09/24/2024

A sneak peek inside the labs at AG2TC in Apopka, FL - on tour at AmericanHort’s Plug & Cutting Conference

09/23/2024

Editors Bill Calkins and Chris Beytes are in Florida for AmericanHort’s Plug & Cutting Conference. Today, they are on Bus Tour Leader duties. Here are some pics from the road visiting a Costa facility and Deroose Plants.

09/20/2024

ACRES ONLINE E-NEWS IS OUT! New Phytophthora; New Könst Owners; New Staff for Bailey, Dümmen Orange, North America - read & subscribe at https://www.growertalks.com/Newsletters/View/?article=4690 - topics include Newly detected Phytophthora
- HRI gets research funds for it | Könst gets new owners | NL cuts "hugely under pressure" | Halloween stats, ideas | Bailey's new CHRO, CFO | Dümmen adds sales, tech staff | What do you want to learn online? | Chris Beytes on podcast

09/18/2024

It’s a beautiful day in The Land! Green Profit / Inside Grower / GrowerTalks editor Jen Polanz is off to the BFG distributor show in good old Cleveland, Ohio to find new products. From the looks of the trade show hall, she's got a big day ahead!

09/10/2024

HOT OFF THE PRESS! 2025 Insecticide, Miticide & Fungicide Guide

Our special edition guides have become treasured commodities for greenhouse professionals and when they’re updated, you certainly want to have the latest versions bookmarked digitally or on your shelf. The 2025 INSECTICIDE, MITICIDE & FUNGICIDE GUIDE was just released and includes new chemistries in the handy charts, as well as articles sharing the latest research from crop protection experts. Click the link and download your PDF today!https://www.growertalks.com/pdf/2025_IMF_Guide.pdf

Read up on downy mildew before it devastates your crops, find tips on foliar disease preparation and see how leading growers are implementing sustainable practices in their IPM programs. You’ll also find the latest info on preemergence herbicides and application techniques to optimize efficacy.

Huge thanks to BASF for sponsoring this guide and for their continued partnership and efforts helping us produce this important supplement. Their development of targeted new products and research into compatibility is truly cutting-edge and the Ball Publishing team is grateful for their support and guidance.

08/28/2024

TROPICAL TOPICS E-NEWS IS OUT! NIPW, RCA, TPIE and a new COO - read & subscribe at https://www.greenprofit.com/Newsletters/View/?article=4665 - topics include NIPW Alert! | Farwest’s RCAs | FNGLA’s Future New COO | Speaking of TPIE … | How’s Your Penmanship?

08/26/2024

Questions about testing nursery media? Lynn Griffith covered the topic thoroughly in this month's GrowerTalks. https://www.growertalks.com/Article/?articleid=26930

OR ... You can listen to it as a Tech On Demand Podcast Audio File!
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2KIut9nP7cIfU8263KmOTW?si=f467688fdfed4074
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tech-on-demand-brought-to-you-by-growertalks/id1523055762

EXCERPT: Most of the better nurseries utilize a combination of in-house testing and commercial lab testing. Some universities will test your media as well. Gathering these types of data can help growers evaluate growing programs, make growing decisions and troubleshoot.

08/21/2024

TROPICAL TOPICS E-NEWS IS OUT! Beat the heat, plantscaping trends and is that fall I sense? - read & subscribe at https://www.greenprofit.com/Newsletters/View/?article=4656 - topics include Costa Employees Beat the Heat | Talking Plantscape Trends | Two More | Fall Tinge in the Air?

08/20/2024

TECH ON DEMAND E-NEWS IS OUT! How It's Made; Save Your Mums; Pepper Problems - read & subscribe at https://www.growertalks.com/Newsletters/View/?article=4658 - topics include Perennial Farm Video Playlist | Nick's Tip: Mum Rescue | Mum pH Correction | Xanthomonas on Peppers | Start Clean, Stay Clean | New Danziger Tech Sheets

08/14/2024

GREEN TALKS E-NEWS IS OUT! Growers using grants, and making green infrastructure easy with plants - read & subscribe at https://www.growertalks.com/Newsletters/View/?article=4655 - topics include East Jordan's PCR Cert | Growers Get Grants | Global Greenhouses | Green Infrastructure Collection | Report from the MT Outpost

08/09/2024

ACRES ONLINE E-NEWS IS OUT! Financial Benchmarking Survey; 5 AAS Winners; Ode to Poinsettias - read & subscribe at https://www.growertalks.com/Newsletters/View/?article=4653 - topics include Remembering Bob Ench | Mountainmint good for cuts, too | New Ohio conference coming | Financial benchmarking survey | Five for 2025 from AAS | Rebates still available | PW's employee portal | Fixing floppy hydrangeas | SePRO's new partners

08/07/2024

Check out the video version—recorded live at Cultivate—where Tech On Demand podcast host Bill Calkins discusses new chemistries with Dr. JC Chong from SePRO!

Joining host Bill Calkins live on the show floor at American Hort’s Cultivate ’24 event, Dr. JC Chong dives deep into a few new products from SePRO, recent r...

08/06/2024

DID YOU KNOW? Ball Publishing produces TEN e-newsletters, each covering a specific topic or market segment! That's ten opportunities (either weekly or bi-monthly) to read timely and relevant news items and stories squarely focused on your business interests. Be sure to share this message with your entire team because no matter what their role in the operation, spending some time reading up on what’s going on in the industry will aid in effective decision making.

From perennials to tropical plants and cut flowers to controlled environment agriculture (and our once-a-year CAST coverage), our experienced editors have the best connections in each market to bring you cutting-edge info.

Here's a link where you can CHECK OUT ALL OF OUR NEWSLETTERS—sign up to receive the ones you need. And jump back in the archives to read past issues: https://www.growertalks.com/Newsletters/

08/05/2024

Ball Seed Company CUSTOMER DAYS 2024! It's been an annual event for the flower industry for 70 years or more! It's Ball Seed's Customer Day ... now Days, stretching the last two days of July.

Join GrowerTalks/Green Profit editors Jennifer Polanz and Chris Beytes as they seek out the highlights in the garden. And learn which flowers are the favorites of Anna and Susannah Ball!

It's been an annual event for the flower industry for 70 years or more! It's Ball Seed's Customer Day ... now Days, stretching the last two days of July. Joi...

08/02/2024

NEW PODCAST EPISODE! Critical Chemistries (Recorded Live at Cultivate ’24) with JC Chong

Joining host Bill Calkins live on the show floor at American Hort’s Cultivate ’24 event with his buddy Dr. JC Chong! In the latest Tech On Demand podcast episode, JC dove deep into a few new products from SePRO, recent research findings and why some chemistries offer more benefits than meets the eye.

JC is the Technical Development Manager at SePRO following an extensive academic career that includes a BS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Arizona, graduate training at the University of Georgia, post-doctoral training at the University of Florida and a professorship at Clemson University. With almost 20 years in the turf and ornamental industry, he’s now leading SePRO’s ornamental R&D program, delivering innovative solutions to complex problems. He’s also the editor of PestTalks, a fantastic Ball Publishing product. If you’re not subscribed to it, now’s the time. Here's where you can sign up: https://www.growertalks.com/Newsletters/Signup/?newsletter=pesttalks

In this fun and informational episode, Bill and JC chatted about the 2024 season, Thrips parvispinus and what pests and diseases are impacting fall annuals, perennials and holiday crops now before moving into some new products SePRO has introduced in the past year. Bill got to learn a new word, “symbiont”, and the science behind why a PGR like Topflor is showing visible plant quality benefits in production.

JC shared some reasons all growers should consider adding the fungicide Obtego to the toolbox and then shares exactly why SePRO’s new StriCore herbicide is a true breakthrough. It’s not often that we see new active ingredients enter the pre-emergent herbicide market, so it makes sense turf and nursery growers are excited about this one.

You can find the Tech On Demand Podcast, brought to you by GrowerTalks on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and just about any other app. You’ll want to subscribe, as well, so you never miss an episode and take some time to jump back in the archives for more than 135 episodes covering a wide range of topics for greenhouse professionals.

TECH ON DEMAND ON SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/2KIut9nP7cIfU8263KmOTW?si=587d9334e044495f

TECH ON DEMAND ON APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/tech-on-demand-brought-to-you-by-growertalks/id1523055762

07/31/2024

FREE WEBINAR! How to Choose Your Propagation Media

Date: Thursday, August 1, 2024
Time: 1:00 PM Eastern/12:00 PM Central

REGISTER NOW! https://ballhort.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xv9qRHlYROerHEJPrn9kgg #/registration

In our webinar “How to Choose Your Propagation Media,” guest expert Mike Cade will present a comprehensive guide to starting your plants off strong. This webinar will highlight the importance of selecting the right propagation media for successful plant growth, comparing all the various products on the market, including loose fill trays, paper-style pots, so-called “glue plugs” and more, including Jiffy’s popular Preforma plug technology. Mike will then do a deep dive on Preforma, including technical aspects, case studies, cost evaluations and more. You’ll even get a sneak peek inside Jiffy’s new factory.

Mike, Key Accounts Manager for Jiffy Products of America, has more than 45 years of industry experience selling and competing with every form of propagation material on the market, so he knows what works and why.

07/31/2024

GREEN PROFIT'S buZZ! E-NEWS IS OUT! Retailers’ Choice, a SCOTUS ruling and Fa-La-La - read & subscribe at https://www.greenprofit.com/Newsletters/View/?article=4635 - topics include Retailers’ Choice Awards | It’s A Nono | Proven Winners Takes Two | Metal Art and Pretty Plants | Wrapping It Up | Bill on a SCOTUS Ruling | It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like

07/29/2024

ACRES ONLINE E-NEWS IS OUT! Loads of Education & Cool Products from Cultivate'24 - read & subscribe at https://www.growertalks.com/Newsletters/View/?article=4636 - topics include Correcting/Clarifying | SCOTUS tax ruling | A new open-roof GH | Colorado trials coming up | Observations from Cultivate'24:
- State of our industry
- 4 reasons to be sustainable
- Lots of new products
- Congrats to our Young Grower!

07/26/2024

Editors spotted in the wild!

07/26/2024

The GrowerTalks, Green Profit and Inside Grower team is back at it for day 2 attending Ball Seed’s annual field days in The Gardens at Ball! Here’s just a taste of what’s happening in the gardens this morning. Watch for video coverage coming soon. 😉

07/25/2024

Today at Ball Seed Customer Day … For those who think Bossman Chris Beytes likes to hog the spotlight … he’s happy to share it with managing editor Jen Polanz, who is discussing new herbs with PanAmerican Seed’s Josh Kirschenbaum.

07/25/2024

It’s the first of two Ball Seed Customer Days here in West Chicago! If you’re here or planning to visit tomorrow, make sure you stop by the Ball Publishing space in the Ball Cafe to pick up grower guides and update your subscription to GrowerTalks, Green Profit and Inside Grower!

07/22/2024

Join us as Kip McConnell from PDSI takes us on a live tour of the four offerings in the Better Boxwood brand at Cultivate’24.

Join us as Kip McConnell from PDSI takes us on a live tour of the four offerings in the Better Boxwood brand at Cultivate’24.

07/19/2024

TECH ON DEMAND E-NEWS IS OUT! Ask Dr. Hall; Wet/Dry, Warm/Cold Poinsettias; Little Leaf Syndrome - read & subscribe at https://www.growertalks.com/Newsletters/View/?article=4631 - topics include Dr. Hall Looks Back ... | ... and Looks Forward | Nick's Tip: Poinsettia Conditions | Sclerotinia Deep Dive | Feed Your Echinacea | Cabbage & Calcium

07/18/2024

Editors on the road! Some of the GrowerTalks, Green Profit and Inside Grower team stopped by an open house Saturday before Cultivate’24 to see a new open-roof greenhouse range in action!

Here's a photo of Jacco van Delden, managing director (and owner) of Rovero Systems, with his customer Mark Foertmeyer, in Mark’s new Rovero Roll-Air greenhouse, the first one in North America. The range, including the DeCloet headhouse, is about 3 1/2 acres. It features Erfgoed floors and heat by Biotherm. While not quite finished, Mark plans on moving fall mums in as soon as he can.