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Floriculture & Greenhouse Crop Production
MSU Extension’s floriculture educational and applied research programs help improve greenhouse crop production and business management by providing trusted information on new production techniques and management strategies.
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Online College of Knowledge
These online, self-paced courses provide basic training to floriculture growers in Michigan and beyond in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Each section consists of recorded lectures, self-assessment quizzes and links to more information.
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Root Zone Management
These online, self-paced courses provide basic training to floriculture growers in Michigan and beyond in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Each section consists of recorded lectures, self-assessment quizzes and links to more information.
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Control Biológico para Cultivadores en Invernaderos
These online, self-paced courses provide basic training to floriculture growers in Michigan and beyond in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Each section consists of recorded lectures, self-assessment quizzes and links to more information.
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Abiotic Disorders of Greenhouse Crops
These online, self-paced courses provide basic training to floriculture growers in Michigan and beyond in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Each section consists of recorded lectures, self-assessment quizzes and links to more information.
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Iluminación para Horticultura e Invernaderos
These online, self-paced courses provide basic training to floriculture growers in Michigan and beyond in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Each section consists of recorded lectures, self-assessment quizzes and links to more information.
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Greenhouse & Horticultural Lighting
These online, self-paced courses provide basic training to floriculture growers in Michigan and beyond in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Each section consists of recorded lectures, self-assessment quizzes and links to more information.
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Biological Control for Greenhouse Growers
These online, self-paced courses provide basic training to floriculture growers in Michigan and beyond in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Each section consists of recorded lectures, self-assessment quizzes and links to more information.
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Manejo de la Zona Radicular
These online, self-paced courses provide basic training to floriculture growers in Michigan and beyond in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Each section consists of recorded lectures, self-assessment quizzes and links to more information.
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Commercial Floriculture Growers: College of Knowledge
MSU Extension offers the noncredit pre-recorded online courses in the College of Knowledge Series twice yearly (summer and winter). The online courses provide basic training to the commercial floriculture growers in Michigan and beyond in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Currently, four English courses and three Spanish courses are available in the series.
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Sep 21
Bug Bites: Biopesticides and their interaction with biological control agents
September 21, 2021 11:00AM – 12:00PM Zoom
Bug Bites is an intermediate-level online seminar series on greenhouse biological control. In this seminar, Dr. Steven Arthurs from BioBee Biological Systems discusses biopesticides and how they can be used with biological control agents.
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Sep 28
Bug Bites: Supplemental nutrition: theory and application
September 28, 2021 11:00AM – 12:00PM Zoom
Bug Bites is an intermediate-level online seminar series on greenhouse biological control. In this seminar, Veronica Cervantes from BioBest USA discusses supplemental nutrition and how it can improve the performance of biological control agents.
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Nov 4
Educator Toolkit: Map of Beginning Farmer Programs Demo
November 4, 2021 1:00PM – 2:00PM
Demo of new mapping tool for beginning farmer educators and resource providers
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Nov 9
Farmer Toolkit: Map of Beginning Farmer Programs Demo
November 9, 2021 12:00PM – 1:00PM
Demo of new mapping tool for beginning farmers
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Bug Bites! Session 2: Aphidoletes and aphid parasitoids
Published on February 9, 2021
Bug Bites! Session 2: Aphidoletes and aphid parasitoids with Kelly Vance and Erik van der Sluys from Beneficial Insectary. Recorded live on October 13, 2020. Kelly and Eric cover the ins and outs of managing aphids with Aphidoletes aphidimyza (a predator midge) and Aphidius wasps. Pesticide integration and intraguild predation are also discussed.
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Managing crop height
Published on February 3, 2021
Professor Emeritus Royal Heins discusses the history of DIF, which is the temperature difference between the day and night, and how it can be used to manage plant height of floriculture crops produced in greenhouses. He also discusses graphical tracking of the height of potted flowering plants to help growers achieve their desired height targets.
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Bug Bites! Session 3: Quality checks and post-delivery handling
Published on February 9, 2021
Bug Bites! Session 3: Quality checks and post-delivery handling with Chris Anzell from Koppert Biological Systems. Recorded live on October 20, 2020. Chris joins us to discuss best practices for post-delivery handling as well as some simple quality checks that growers can perform on their beneficial organisms.
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Bug Bites! Session 4: Biopesticide integration: strategy and economic considerations
Published on February 9, 2021
Bug Bites! Biopesticide integration: strategy and economics with JJ Klimp from Hidden Leaf Greenhouse in Kalamazoo, MI. Recorded live on Oct 27, 2020. JJ shares his approach to successfully integrating biopesticides into his biological control program - what he sprays, when he sprays, and why he sprays it. He includes examples of real spring floriculture crop cycles and provides cost analyses on his chosen management decisions.
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Bug Bites! Session 1: Poinsettia IPM
Published on February 9, 2021
Bug Bites! Session 1: Poinsettia IPM in Ontario with Dr. Sarah Jandricic from OMAFRA. Recorded live on October 6, 2020. Dr. Jandricic discusses best practices for managing the Silverleaf whitefly (Bemisia tabaci), the most common and troublesome pest in commercial poinsettia production.
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Optimizing LED lighting for flower crops
Published on July 1, 2021
Questions abound when considering use of LED lighting. Choices of fixtures and light quality can be very confusing. In this 45-minute video presentation, Dr. Erik Runkle simplifies the selection and use of LEDs, both indoors and in greenhouses.
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BugBites! Session 5: Effective fungus gnat and shore fly suppression with beneficial organisms
Published on February 9, 2021
Bug Bites! Session 5: Effective fungus gnat and shore fly suppression with Saul Alba and Greg Bryant from Beneficial Insectary. Recorded live on November 2, 2020. Saul and Greg discuss the biology and behavior of fungus gnats & shore flies and the variety of beneficial organisms commonly used to control them. Monitoring techniques and application strategies are also discussed.
