Posts by Jessica McKeil
A Guide to LED Lighting Certification for Commercial Grow Rooms
Growers once shrugged off LED grow light technology as a subpar alternative to traditional HPS lighting. But this tech has rapidly proven naysayers wrong. Today’s best LED grow lights easily outperform legacy lights — you just have to know how to establish which come with LEG lighting certification and which are low-quality knockoffs. Which leads…
Read MoreHow to Navigate the Supply Chain Crisis as a Cannabis Cultivator
The global supply chain is in shambles. Two years of continuous manufacturing disruptions, the impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns, the Ever Given in the Suez Canal, and now, the Ukraine war have accumulated into a crisis of historic levels. Every industry is feeling the crunch of the global supply chain crisis. The effect of this crisis…
Read MoreHow to Weather the Falling Price Per Pound of Cannabis with Vertical Farming
At the end of 2021, the price per pound of cannabis had fallen off a precipice in California. Reports indicate they dropped anywhere from 34 percent (Green Market Report) to up to 50 percent (The Union) in a year. Although primarily impacting outdoor farms, this drastic downturn has repercussions rippling across the industry, including for…
Read MoreGrow Room Solutions for Ergonomic Design Improves Cannabis Cultivation
For most cannabis cultivation companies seeking to build new facilities or revamp existing spaces, one consideration is paramount: maximizing canopy size. But the future of indoor cannabis farming needs to broaden its scope beyond the hyper-focus on square footage. What if there are grow room solutions that could improve outputs by pivoting to also focus…
Read MoreOptimizing Cannabis Facility Design and Workflow for Maximum Output
The average indoor cannabis cultivation facility is now more than 33,000 square feet (Statista). Within the walls of these large-scale commercial operations, producers have begun to realize that the all-too-familiar cannabis facility design is no longer working. Cultivators have become acutely aware of how workflow and facility features impede overall output. Indoor cultivation has reached…
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