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Put the Griffin CEA Experts

to Work for You

By Tami Van Gaal, GGSPro Technical Support Representative

                          The field of horticulture presents  operations and other warehouse production facilities.
                          rich diversity and opportunities    These crops can be grown in conventional media or
                          for enterprising growers            in hydroponic systems. They can be grown under
                          looking for ways to adapt their     natural light, supplemented natural light or entirely
                          business to serve developing        under artificial light. Production can use conventional
                          markets. Controlled Environment     fertilizers and crop protection tools or certified organic
                          Agriculture (CEA) represents one    products and biological control agents (BCAs). And,
                          such market, and Griffin offers     production of all of these crops can be supported by
                          solutions to serve CEA growers.     the experts at Griffin.

                          Before we learn more about          In any given day, Griffin supports CEA growers from
how Griffin helps CEA growers, we need to                                 concept to production. Our construction
understand one thing: What is CEA?                                               team helps to guide new greenhouse
Quite simply, CEA encompasses the                                                    and warehouse builds and also
production of edible crops under                                                         guides renovation projects. The
cover. Common greenhouse                                                                    team helps growers select
edibles include vegetables,                                                                   the best lighting (HID,
lettuce, herbs, soft fruits                                                                     LED or fluorescent) for a
and medicinal crops.                                                                             particular application,
Growing under cover                                                                               details irrigation plans
encompasses traditional                                                                            and recommends
greenhouse structures,                                                                              complete strategies for
hoop houses, cold                                                                                   environmental control,
frames, vertical growing                                                                            including heating and

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