The OHCEAC Annual CEA Conference brings together stakeholders each year to explore key topics in Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA). In 2025, our focus will be on transplant production technologies, recognizing their crucial role in enhancing sustainability and productivity across various crop sectors, including flowering crops, food crops, and landscape/forestry trees.
In partnership with the NC State University CEA-Coalition, this year's conference will highlight how various technologies contribute to transplant production and will foster valuable cross-sector collaboration in plant production.
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Relevant topics include substrate alternatives, root-pathogen-substrate interactions, symbiotic and beneficial microbes, vegetable grafting, stand establishment, seed technologies, and automation.
Keynote speakers
Dr. Paul Fisher, University of Florida. Paul will be speaking on "Production of High-Quality Plugs and Rooted Cuttings in Floriculture"
Dr. Rhoda deJonge, Vineland Research & Innovation Centre, Canada. She will be speaking on "Production of High-Quality Forestry/ Landscape Tree Seedlings – Designing Root Architecture & Rootzone Environment"
Dr. Matt Kleinhenz, The Ohio State University. He will speak on the topic "Production and Use of High-Quality Vegetable Seedlings and Grafting for High Tunnels and Open Fields"
Dr. Ricardo Hernández, North Carolina State University. Ricardo will tackle the topic "Optimized High-Tech Controlled Environment Agriculture Propagation Strategies for Affordable, High-Quality Young Plants"
Dr. Nadia Sabeh, Dr. Greenhouse, Inc. Nadia will address the topic "Designing Systems and HVAC for High-Quality Transplant Production Facilities"
For more information:
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