Educational Webinars
New Varieties Month
GPN’s New Varieties Month features on-demand webcasts by companies presenting 2025 introductions. Look for new sessions on Tuesdays and Thursdays in June.
This year we hear from Syngenta Flowers.
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Syngenta Flowers 
2024 Vision: Insights Into Trends and Opportunities for Big Growers
Hear exclusive insights from industry leaders as they examine the issues facing our industry and help growers make sense of these challenging topics and how they could influence the industry in 2024.
Lowering the Greenhouse Temperature at Night: Risks and Rewards
Day and night temperature control crop production time as well as various quality attributes. It can be tempting to lower the greenhouse temperature at night to decrease heating costs, but there are some trade-offs that need to be considered. This presentation will discuss how lowering the night temperature influences flowering time and crop quality, as well as how it interacts with other environmental variables including light and humidity.
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2023 Cannabis & Hemp Week
Join GPN for Cannabis & Hemp Week, a free, multi-day, interactive event. This webcast series is designed to provide growers with the latest insight, production tips, and guidelines to grow successfully.
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New Varieties Week 2023
GPN’s New Varieties Week, featured 60-minute webcasts by companies presenting their new varieties for 2024 is on-demand NOW!
This year we heard from Suntory Flowers, Bailey Nurseries and Star Roses and Plants Dümmen Orange.
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What’s on the Horizon in the Coming Year for Consumers, Legislation, Labor & Your Plants.
Presenting the fifth annual Big Grower Executive Webinar! Hear insights from Bridget Behe, Ph.D., Michigan State University; Sara Neagu-Reed and Evan Lee, AmericanHort; and Diane Blazek, All-America Selections as they examine the issues facing our industry and help growers make sense of these challenging topics and how they could influence the industry in 2023.
Selecting the Right Lighting System for Your CEA Crop
Lighting up CEA crops: Selecting a lighting system that works for you.
There has been a huge increase in the options available for CEA lighting fixtures and control systems. Where should a grower begin with selecting their lighting system? The session will start with a refresher on lighting needs for the most common CEA crops. Neil will then discuss the most important factors when choosing a lighting system, including: light output, up-front cost, energy efficiency, and spectrum. Learn about calculator tools available to determine your own lighting needs and run scenarios to see which fixture will be most cost effective for you in the long-run. Advanced plant lighting controls determine how much light is available from the sun and precisely deliver the supplemental light needed without wasting money on over lighting. Neil will present research based results on the energy savings of advanced lighting control.
2022 Plant Health Management Week
Day 1
Impacts of Water Quality on Pest Management with Raymond Cloyd, Ph.D.
Raymond A. Cloyd, Ph.D. professor and extension specialist in Horticultural Entomology/Plant Protection, Department of Entomology, Kansas State University. Raymond’s professional specialty areas include: plant protection, biological control, plant-insect interactions, insect ecology, pesticides, integrating pesticides with biological control agents, and sanitation.
Day 2
Disease Management with Carrie Lapaire Harmon, Ph.D.
Carrie Harmon, Ph.D. has worked in diagnostics for 20 years and currently leads a research, teaching, and extension program that focuses on disease diagnosis, assay development, and diagnostic training. Dr. Harmon teaches online courses in plant disease diagnosis and applied disease management, provides hands-on diagnostic training to traditional students and professionals, and conducts research to improve plant disease detection and diagnosis. Additionally, her research has included comparative analyses and development of ring testing procedures for the improvement of disease detection and diagnostics.
Day 3
Plant Growth Regulators with Roberto Lopez, Ph.D.
Roberto Lopez, Ph.D. is an assistant professor and controlled environment/floriculture extension specialist with a 45% research, 30% teaching, and 25% extension appointment in the Department of Horticulture at Michigan State University. His research focuses on propagation and production of young and finish plants (floriculture, leafy green, and culinary herb crops) in greenhouses, growth rooms/containers, warehouse-based plant factories, and vertical farms.
2022 Cannabis & Hemp Week
Day 1 of Cannabis & Hemp Week with Aaron Van Wingerden.
From Ornamentals to Hemp
Aaron will share his experiences as the founder of Royale Botanicals, a wholesale industrial hemp cultivation facility with its own, bred-in-house genetics. In this interactive webinar, he will tackle similarities and differences between growing ornamentals and hemp: cultivating superior hemp genetics; promoting the superiority of clones over seedlings; and tackling the hemp industry as a whole.
Day 2 of Cannabis & Hemp Week.
Cannabis Economics & What Growers Need to Know
Join the authors of “Can Legal Weed Win? The Blunt Realities of Cannabis Economics” for some unadulterated facts about the new legal segments of an old industry. Dan Sumner and Robin Goldstein will give a whirlwind tour of the economic past, present, and future of legal and illegal cannabis.
Day 3 of Cannabis & Hemp Week.
Panel Discussion
An interactive conversation with Editorial Director Abby McGarry and a panel of growers, including Colin Clark, owner of Never Winter Botanicals; Travis Higginbotham, vice president of production at Harborside Inc.; Sean Sangster, regional director of cultivation at Curaleaf; and Javier Garces, horticulture advisor at Treadwell Farms.
Big Grower Executive Webinar 2021
OUTLOOK 2022:
What’s on the Horizon in the Coming Year for the Economy, Consumers and Legislation
Presenting the fourth annual Big Grower Executive Webinar! Hear exclusive insight from Dr. Charlie Hall, Craig Regelbrugge and Dr. Bridget Behe as they examine the up-to-the-minute issues facing our industry and help growers make sense of these complicated topics and how they could influence the industry in the coming year.
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