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Learn tips about monitoring environmental conditions to further improve yields.

HVACD Controls for Plant Health, Product Quality, and Energy Efficiency in Cultivation and Drying Processes

From setting up a grow to tracking each plant, a look at new cultivation technology solutions designed to both improve  efficiencies and create more data analytics.

Cannabis Cultivation: The New Agriculture Tech Playground

This article discusses the difficulties of reining in the intense energy use of the cannabis industry from the perspective of the most energy efficient state: Massachusetts.

How to Rein in Cannabis Industry Energy?

Here we explore the role that terpenes play in plant immunity, defense, and signaling.

Back to the Root The Role of Botany and Plant Physiology in Cannabis Testing, Part III: Genetic and Environmental Factors Associated with Terpene Synthesis in Plants

A closer look at the benefits of incorporating drone technology into commercial cannabis operations.

Invasion of the Drones: How Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Can Help Cannabis Growers Improve Crop Quality, Lower Costs, and Save the Planet

With grow light technology constantly advancing, Noah Miller, CEO of Black Dog LED, discusses the research behind grow light technology and its future in cannabis.

The Science Behind LED Lights

The industry needs to address energy efficiency, plastic use, and wastewater to build a long-term reputation of accessibility, legitimacy, and sustainability.

Three Ways Cannabis Can Correct Its Trajectory Toward Sustainability

Let’s explore some options for growth substrates that are essential to the health of your plants.

The Root of Success:  Using the Right Growth Substrate

A closer look at how cannabis cultivation management platforms can track data for you and make recommendations based on intelligence and logic discerned from the numbers.

Cannabis Cultivation is More Math than Science: The Role of Data in A Successful Grow Operation

A case study that demonstrates the utility and necessity of environmental screening in a cannabis production and processing facility.

Environmental Screening of a Cannabis Production and Processing Facility:  A Comparison of an Environmental DNA Microarray and Traditional Microbiological Plating Methods

This article analyzes profitability impacts as they relate to your business by providing a knowledgeable look at the technologies accessible to all sizes of operations and describing the relative economics for various systems.

Smart HVAC Selection for Successful Cannabis Cultivation

Use the techniques described here to pass the state tests and ensure safe cannabis for consumers.

It’s Not Too Late: Post-Harvest Solutions to Microbial Contamination Issues

The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Sonny Perdue, announced the establishment of the U.S. Domestic Hemp Production Program on October 29, 2019.  

USDA Announces Domestic Hemp Production Program

Here we identify the main sources of disease that could impact grow operations and best practices for clean cannabis.

The Keys to Clean Cannabis

What are the biggest challenges in cannabis cultivation? Our panel of experts discuss indoor versus outdoor; the reasons why one is preferred over the other; and how the outcome influences the properties of the plant itself.

Ask the Experts: Cultivation, Part II: What Type of Cultivation Do You Find to be the Most Effective for Your Cannabis Plants?

There is a better, high-tech way of  making sure cannabis plants are truly healthy. Here's how.

High-Tech Imaging System Provides a Deeper Dive Into the Health and Well-Being of the Cannabis Plant

This article explores how vapor pressure differentials (VPD) affect transpiration rates in cannabis plants. Understanding of VPD at different temperatures and relative humidities, and its effect on this process, is important to gain maximum plant growth.

Understanding VPD and Transpiration Rates for Cannabis Cultivation Operations

The cannabis industry is constrained by the continued use of acronyms and nonstandard abbreviations for strain naming in lieu of a scientific-based standardized classification convention or lexicon. Applying chemometric tools can result in not only the authentication of a given cannabis cultivar but also provide a quality control mechanism for both cannabis flower and any resulting cannabis-based drugs.

Making Sense of Cannabis Strains Through Chemometrics in Review

is the President and Founder, jCanna, Inc. and Cannabis Science Conference. He is also a contributing editor for Cannabis Science & Technology.

In this installment of “Cannabis Crossroads,” we take a closer look at the hemp revolution, and more specifically, academic hemp research.

Hemp Science Takes Root at Morgan State University

Laboratories are challenged with highly regulated and difficult sample schematics, sample preparation, extraction, and testing procedures that try to ensure accuracy and precision of testing. Accuracy in analytical testing starts at the very beginning with sampling and sample preparation prior to testing.