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The Grower & The Economist — 131 episodes

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The Potential of Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA

2

Radishes and Kale: Profitable Crops in Hydroponic Vertical Farms

3

Water Conservation in Horticulture: A Conversation with Dr. Joukhadar

4

From Lab to Land: Advancing Urban Agriculture Through Science Communication

5

Crafting Condiments: The Rascal Relish Story

6

Cultivating Careers: Engaging the Next Generation in Horticulture

7

The Future of Hydroponics: Insights from a Young Innovator

8

Voices in Plant Breeding

9

A Pain Free Conversation About Finance

10

Good Agriculture for Small Farmers

11

What Can You Learn At Indoor Ag-Con 2025?

12

Indoor Ag-Con 2025!

13

Building Scalable Automation for Small Farms: Insights from Rooted Robotics

14

Have You Checked In With Your Neighbor?

15

Do You Have A Virtual CFO?

16

Local Food to Local Plate

17

Is Bigger Really Better?

18

Tell Your Story! Marketing for Small Businesses

19

The Buyer's Perspective: Hanover Co-Op

20

U.S. Vegetable Sales Jump 82 Percent?!

21

In the Year 2525...

22

More Greenhouse Grower Podcasts!

23

Spring Has Sprung - Have You Started Your Plants?

24

Is $6,000 for Data a Good Price?

25

What's The Deal with Peat?

26

Technology and AI: For the Small, Medium Sized Growers 

27

It's Global

28

Seed Catalogs Are Presents in January

29

SNOW DAY!

30

Software, Date & Analytics

31

Marketing Bonus!

32

Growing Trust: Strategies for Farm Marketing and Customer Loyalty

33

Three Major Horticulture Trends & A Call for Education Programs

34

Welcome To Season 2!

35

Avoid the ROI Trap

36

4 Tips for July 4th

37

Dr. Knuth Talks Horticultural Entrepreneurship & Beneficial Insects

38

A Soil Scientists Take on Soilless Growing

39

Taking the Plunge & Going Digital

40

Things are heating up...

41

More Than Just a Glaze: Bonus

42

More Than Just a Glaze

43

Spring has Sprung

44

BONUS EPISODE: Back2Basics at #Cultivate2023

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Regenerative Agriculture Biotech Company Tackles Crop Loss

46

Eradicating Invasive Species with Goats of Dover

47

It's 65 Degrees, Should I Start My Seeds?

48

Respect for the home gardener

49

Fashion Trends & Agriculture

50

Let’s recap GROW Executive Summit!

51

Is a Propagating Greenhouse Right for Your Operation?

52

Baby, It's Cold Outside - Don't Lose the Heat!

53

How to Manage Greenhouse Heating Costs This Winter

54

Donating Excess Produce. What does it Means for Farm Budgets?

55

Inflation 101 from Professor Klieger

56

Mega-Grocery Merger Impacts Local Farmers

57

Willy Wonka's Landscapes

58

On-Farm Risk Mitigation Strategies

59

5 Steps to Leverage Input Purchases in Your Business

60

Redefining Food Security

61

The Power of Collaborative Farmer-to-Farmer Peer Networks

62

Flowers without Smell?

63

What is the food system of the future?

64

Topless Greenhouses: Innovation Required to Feed America

65

Finding a Way to Stand Out

66

Everything Fertilizer: Inflation, Disruptions, & Sustainability

67

The Top Metric to Evaluate Your Lighting

68

Diverse, Integrated Family Farms are Positioned for Success

69

Shortages: Worse than Inflation

70

Just in Time is Out of Time

71

Chevy vs. Ferrari of Greenhouses

72

Eat Your Ramps

73

Practical Advice from Dr. Gloom & The Grim Reaper

74

BONUS: The Many Benefits of Permaculture

75

Dynamic Accumulators: Turning Farm Waste into Farm Food

76

Eat Less of the Cow and More of What the Cow Eats

77

Ecological to Economical

78

Growing Urban Ag: Part 2

79

From Abandoned Lots to Roof Tops: Urban Ag Moves In

80

Best of 2021

81

Understandable Business Fundamentals Every Grower Needs

82

Own a Family Business? Tips to Survive the Holidays

83

Donating Excess Produce. What does it Means for Farm Budgets?

84

Can You Turn Inflation Into An Opportunity?

85

Big, Scary Inflation... What do you need to know?

86

From Starch Content to Disease Resistance, Plant Breeding Offers Solutions

87

Keep It Simple Stupid

88

Growing Tomatoes? When Sell'em, Eat'em, or Win a Tomato Fight...

89

Trustworthy Resources Every Grower Needs

90

Are Biologicals Ag's Solution to Limited Inputs?

91

It's Our Game to Lose!

92

Is Lack of Skilled Labor Negatively Impacting You?

93

Regenerative Farm Financing Takes Off

94

3 COVID Trends Sticking Around

95

Additional Opportunities to Automate on Every Size Farm

96

The Local Premium

97

Farmers Markets Reinvisioned

98

Defining and Achieving Success

99

Being Better Than Last Year

100

Crop Marketing - What Does It Really Mean?

101

Cocoa Trees Growing During a New England Snowstorm

102

Clinging to Control During Unpredictable Time

103

Illuminating a Plant: Science, System, and Business

104

The Greenhouse Journey from Thermostats to APIs

105

Food Safety is on Everyone's Mind

106

Economics of Donating Produce

107

Grower Education Solutions and 2020 Trends from CropKing's CEO

108

Time to Tackle Variable Costs

109

Cost Accounting Increases Profitability

110

In-season notes, Post-season improvements

111

Trialing Like a Pro

112

COVID Silver Linings for Small Producers

113

Why Small Producers Should Pick Specialty Production

114

The Power of Bees

115

Where do consumers get their nutrient education from?

116

Teacher turned Grower- We're Never Done Learning

117

Transforming Potatoes into a Dinner Superstar

118

Home Gardens Aid Local Farms, Not Compete

119

Food Education: From Classroom to Controlled Environment Agriculture

120

Local Foods: An Opportunity for Small Growers

121

Bringing New Crops & Varieties into Rotation

122

Greenhouse & Vertical Farm Food Production Duet View

123

Can Small Growers Survive?

124

How Farmers Can Transition from Supplying Restaurants to Home Consumers

125

Research Shows the Benefits of Flowers

126

Pushing the Boundaries of Indoor Farming

127

What To Grow With Nationwide Protein Shortages

128

Avoiding the Silent Assassin

129

Now what are we going to grow?

130

33 Years of Experience & It's Practically Useless

131

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