University researchers shift from ornamentals to food crops
“As the ornamental side of the greenhouse industry has been undergoing consolidation with fewer but larger operations, we have seen an increased interest from the industry in growing greenhouse food crops,” Evans said. “The number of emails and phone calls related to greenhouse food crops have greatly increased. Also, more students who are interested in greenhouse production want to learn about growing food crops. Here at the University of Arkansas we put in different kinds of soilless and hydroponic production systems.