Farwest 2014 announces greenhouse tech session

The 2014 Farwest Trade Show, August 21-23 in Portland, Oregon, has scheduled a seminar that will take a close look at some of the industry’s most current and critical emerging greenhouse technologies.

 

The seminar, Using New Technologies to Optimize the Greenhouse Environment for Efficiency and Increased

Profitability, will showcase systems and methods that have shown great potential to enhance growing conditions and serve to increase effi ciencies and dramatically increase profitability

 

Scheduled for 9-11am on Aug. 21, as part of Farwest’s greenhouse education track, the meeting will be conducted by Lloyd Traven, partner, Peace Tree Farm and Al Zylstra, Division Manager, DRAMMwater, a division of Dramm Corporation.

 

Technologies apply to propagation and regular potted production, but are also fully applied to nursery production. Traven and Zylstra will inform attendees about incredible sensor technology that can literally make irrigation as precise as setting a cruise control, revolutionary new methods for total disinfection and oxygenation of irrigation water, using systems with virtually no ongoing expenses after installation, and a full range of lighting possibilities.