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2025 Indoor Ag-Con, Las Vegas, United States
Certhon Denso: Dino Nardicchio, Edwin Vanlaerhoven and Jeffrey Landau, active in both greenhouse building and vertical farming
The Koppert team showcased the Koppert bumblebees and their other products for integrated crop management.
Paul Oneill, BPGrower, is known for their various trays that are rugged and sealed to resist root penetration, ensuring improved plant growth. The one he's holding is the European sized model raft: size 400x1200
Cameron Way and Joost Somford, Jasa Packaging Solutions, were found right at the entrance of the show.
Kurt Smith, Stephan Lafaille, Dalton Allaben and Lindsay Cannavo, Tecogen. Their CHP systems are helping growers deal with increasing energy costs and environmental challenges.
James Eade with Sensei Ag visits Martin Quintal and Laurens Mess, KUBO
Gino Fratarcangeli, Hazel Farms Group, visits the Philips / Signify team. We promised we would not point out how well Amos Bassi's shoes match the carpet in the Indoor Ag-Con venue.
Michael Lee, Planti, visits Ton Versteeg and Abe Wiebe, Universal Fabricating. On of their collaborative projects of this year is the Double Diamond Farms expansion
Steen Mortensen and Floris Berghout, Viemose
Wessel van Paassen with Green Simplicity can talk for hours about light with Craig Frymark, Gotham Greens, Jason Kamphuis, and Matt Sauls, Prins USA.
Most famous at the show were the Koppert bumblebees—they attracted non-stop attention.
From left to right: the new Oreon top light Commander, Tyler Rodrigue, Westland Greenhouse Solutions, and Arnold de Kievit, Oreon.
Eric Harrington, California Lightworks, participated in a panel discussion on how under-canopy lighting can actually result in a 30% yield increase in cannabis.
Teddy Popkin, Shareen Bodha, and Camille Hanna showcased the Skytree Cumulus, designed to capture CO2 and make it available for greenhouse use.
The team of Premier Tech specializes in a variety of crops.
Shine bright like Sollum! In the photo: Christopher Prince, Matthew Bonavita, Abhay Thosar, and Sam Soltaninejad.
John Place, Amanda Emond, and Dulce Diaz, Nourse, showcasing their various berry plants propagated in their high-tech facilities.
Rob Wiese, PB Tec, and Kees Rodenburg, Enza Zaden, visit Adam Greenberg and Alex Franco, IUNU.
the Hoogendoorn team: Peter Hendriks, Luis Trujillo, Oscar Morales, and Jim Pantaleo.
Rob Hanfin, Joey Viegas, and Travis Dixon, Ridder
Don Cronin and Alex Franco, IUNU. The company is expanding its foothold in vine crops
Eric Douw, KUBO, visits Denis Dullemans, DLI
Mauricio Aguilar, Amador Beltran and Adam Ansari, Elevated.
Celena Davis, MFG Tray Company
Artechno Art van Rijn, Wil Lemmers, Julia Erftemeijer, Sven Duijvestijn.
Shaw Yang and Ed Bizari with Pure NanoTech, offering nanobubble systems
Neda Vaseghi and Jac Merrott with MicroClimates
Dmytro Yakymakha and Olha Chebanova, Begrow
Scott Massey with ANU spoke in the panel about the grit behind building a CEA business
Conner Tidd, Patrick Ladly-Fredeen, and Chistopher Di Grazia showing the Just Vertical system
Eric Stein, Center of Excellence for Indoor Agriculture, visits Neda Vaseghi with MicroClimates
Mike Bush shows the Anden products, focusing on advanced dehumidification and air quality systems
Tom van der Waal and Ad kranendonk, Flier Systems USA. After the show, they will participate in the Plantanova open day in Mexico, and take part in GreenTech Americas.
Gary Baze and Jeffrey Conley with Conleys Greenhouse Manufacturing & Sales. The company stocked on steel to prepare for market fluctuations.
Tanya Carroll and Pieter Slaman, Little Leaf Farms. Smiling because they just won the CEAs — Cultivating Excellence - Operational Excellence Award!
Chris cCmpbell and Richard Hubbell, Harvest Panel, offering insulated metal panels and doors for modular grow and dry rooms
BFG's David Branco and Kristen Hanson take a tour around the tradeshow
That's one big DryGair tower! Next to it, you’ll find Doug Miller, who can tell you everything about this dehumidification solution.
Michael Lee, Planti, walked the show
Dave Persing with Intek Plastics. In the near future the company will launch an aeroponic gutter with room for larger plants, tomatoes peppers and cannabis. To enable full flexibility, the gutter can be reduced to half of its size thanks to a separate lid
The Oasis Grower Solutions, and the Oasis Grower Solutions team: Erin Yafuso, Sergio Sarmiento, Brenton Williams, Sharon Warschauer and Vijay Rapaka
As if we would not recognize Corenthin Felix Chassouant, Harnois, without seeing his badge!
Luuk Rutten, Niels Mulder and Roy Lemmen, Sormac, presenting various post-harvest solutions.
That's like 198471 cameras on John Place, Nourse Farms! No wonder - their first plants are coming!
Dave Bishop and Michael Still, N3XTG3N Greenhouses
Brian Labelle and Mike Ferrel, GF Piping Systems brought their technical equipment
The lovely Kaylee South explaining more on the CEA Innovation Center
Amanda Debevc, Wadsworth Control Systems, visited by Cameron Grant, Horticulture Lab Manager at Tarrant County College
Michael Ploeg, Dalsem, visited by Freddy Sarkis, Growtec
The team of BFG Supply back at their booth: David Branca, Kristen Hanson, Travis Farrell, and Jason Jacobs
Bon Starnes and Adam Pound, Agratech
That's bright yellow! But how well does it suit Andrew Mondi, Timberfiber!
Brian Loftus and Kevin Pope, Nova Aeroponics
Bill Stone, Legacy Labor, helps growers deal with the challenges of labor and labor management.
Justin Hall, Hannah Massey, and Bob Gunn, Green Rebates
Tom Waggoner, Higher Yields Consulting
Brett Richter, Ecological Labs, and his friend from Long Island: Dave Hazan with NY Sun Works
Dan Ehrlich and Andy Seckinger, United Grants of America, visited by Maxwell Tannenbaum, CAI Foods Company
Happy Hour! Cheers to Dennis van Alphen, Total Energy Group, Pascal Pieper, and Ruud van den Heuvel, Ridder. And to me—but I was on the other side of the camera.
Abha Gupta, Toby Odell, and Margaux Cline with Canna USA, presenting their coco solutions
Trina Semenchuk, Little Greenhouse That Could
Keynote Day 2, about the status of the Canadian industry, with Bahram Rashti, CEO & Co-Founder, UP Vertical Farms, Gabriel Forero, Head Grower, Sunterra Greenhouse, Valérie Terrault, Sales & Marketing Director, Gen V, and moderated by Trina Semenchuk, Little Greenhouse That Could
Glenn Berhman runs into Ben Crowther, LettusGrow
Gregg Urban is responsible for the CEA market within Griffins.
Eric Moody and Damon Hebert, UbiGro. Check out their miniature greenhouse covered with their spectrum-controlling covering!
James Susaimuthu and Avnita Susaimuthu, HortGrow Solutions, showing their specialized growing materials for the CEA market
Ruoshui Ma and Xuan Luo with Wujan Eudeco, presenting paper solutions for living lettuces and several floricultural products
John Mee and Darrell Stittiams, MeeFog Systems, showcasing their new industrial-quality greenhouse fogger
Jason Kravig, Colorado Department of Corrections, visits Carlos Sanchez and Justin Hernandez with Grow Pro Solutions.
For the past few years, SunGro Horticulture has included Pelemix products in its assortment, and Annie Silins and Toby Longstreet can tell you all about it.
Kendra Armstrong, Crop Convergence, Grant Peagler, Siemens, and Kyle Sastanon, Hydrobuilder, discussed the future of farming.
Dante Fernandez, Mike Muchow, and Jim Rearden, Biotherm, presenting their nanobubble technology.
Adam Earle and Kyra Smith with Rimol Greenhouse Systems
Jeremy Mahon, Prihoda, presenting their air ducting & diffuser systems.
Did somebody say rebates? Here are Alexis Dubourdieu and Abigail Wood with What Rebates.
Ron Wyatt and Neil Watson, Pindstrup. Their Forest Gold is a wood fiber optimized for horticulture that can easily be blended into different substrate mixes.
Of course, the booth of the International Sprout Growers Association was filled with beautiful fresh produce.
Hey Matthew, here’s proof we did come back for a photo with your colleague—and that we indeed captured him!
Good talks at the PolyFlex booth.
Look at those strawberries! Though the focus should be on the Ellepots they are grown in, as David Dobos and Grant Kees of Ellepot US by Blackmore proudly shared.
Marcus Rosenthal, Sensei AG, visits Brent Kenney, Jilian Whitehead, and Chuck Buffington.
Diving into the FGM system at the AdeptAg booth.
Busy times at the Hoogendoorn booth!
Lindsey Jackson, Multivac, showcasing the company's packaging solutions.
Rabbe Ringbom with Valoya got a lot of visits from researchers, as the lights are specially designed for these applications.
Ryan Lindsey and John Huber with Apogee Instruments talk to a visitor about the different sensors the company offers.
Yufei Qian with Davis University visits the Hoogendoorn team: Peter Hendriks, Luis Trujillo, Oscar Morales, and Jim Pantaleo.
Showing the Advanced Energy lights: Shou Chang, Connor Gorman, Andy Nguyen, Cathi Baker, and Pam Myers.
Walking the show: Jaebin Yoo and Malaia Martinez with Malaia's Microgreens.
Keith Lewis, Cody Lewis, and Edwin McClure with Bio520, offering various liquid mineral nutrients. They claim they’re so safe you could drink them—but although we love validated information, we did not try this out.
A South Africa meet-up! Warren Russell with Moleaer connects with Tinneke Hatting, HortiDaily.
Keeping it clean with Natural Plant Protection Solutions like Clear Zona.
Daniel Lewis showcased the Good Natured Products packaging solutions, based on plant material.
The BIOS Lighting team presented their specifically designed products: Endeavour 970 and The Bridge.
Dima Chernobilsky, GrowDirector
Grant Ramsay and Philip Daugherty with FabricAir shared some interesting case studies on how their products improve airflow—and thus, cultivation.
Guillermo Baquero Busse, NGS, and Tom Kendall with Inevitable. Inevitable specializes in the first phase of cultivation, while NGS helps further along. Together, they offer growers a complete solution from seed to harvest.
Mike Methe and Justin Graves, Fogco.
Masho Strogoff, Mike Murray, and Manu Souza with Growbud, showing how sensors can optimize crops.
Ferdi van Elswijk, Jason Lovell, Shane Hutto, and Erik Waterman with Profile Growing Solutions.
The FY Lighting Co. growing system offers a hands-off growing experience. Cherry Yu and Jim Huang show.
John Keeley and Tim Sarna, Sonoco.
The GK Growing System was showcased at Indoor Ag-Con 2025.
Josh Crichton and Chip Seidel with Desert Aire and their various HVAC products and chillers.
Dominic Stringer and Mark Ruggs with TSO Green, showcasing their solar solution for greenhouse crops, equipped with tools to check DLI and natural sunlight for optimized cultivation and energy generation.
Martez Pointer, LLK Greenhouse Solutions.
Rick Bauer and Ed Miller with Harrington
Davide Tosatto and Uliana Davide, Da Ros
Matt and Jennifer Kowalski, Warhammer
Matthew Krum, Advancing Alternatives, will update us soon on the projects the company is currently working on
The show is almost over, but the VT Dry & Cure Technologies continues to smile
THAT'S A WRAP! Tinneke Hatting and Arlette Sijmonsma, representing HortiDaily, MMJDaily, VerticalFarmDaily (and also FloralDaily but yeah) had amazin days at the show
Kenneth Tran and his colleague with Koidra visited the show
Rebekka Boekhout, Phyto by RCB, and Katia Zacharaki, Innophyte Consulting
Show organizers Kyle Barnett and Suzanne Pruitt
Excited for the start of the conference!
Gus Brennan (Greenswell Growers), Tim Reusch (Dramm Corporation), Rachel Warner (Lufa Farms) and Rob Eddy (Resource innovation institute) with their talk "Water Wise"
The Water Wise panel enjoying all the questions from the audience!
Peter Temitope Agboola from Prairie View A&M University, connecting their university research to the industry
Viscon Group with Scott and Michel showcasing their AI vision systems and smart picking technologies.
Kort Hotzwart of Lambert Peat Moss. "We got product, at the root of your success."
AME with their in-house DNA testing. Pathogen detection, have the answer within 30 minutes!
Ceres Certifications with Dr Karl Kolb of Ceres University, Mayra Cruz, and Kari Neubauer.
Valeriaa Kogan and Ron Dekok of Fermata
Sergio Christancho and Evija Gossr of Aranet
Francesco Basili of IMA ILAPAK, Bruno Garavelli of XNEXT S. P. A., Simone del Tongo of IMA ILAPAK, Enrico Gribaudo of Turatti North America, and Masoud Vaghefi of Turatti
Ferd Desantis, William Riffey of Landmark Plastic with their thermal farming and injection plastics operations
Casper Knook and Arnoud Bolten of Bosman van Zaal. Featuring their digitized and integrated systems.
Spotted: Gus, Tim (Dramm), and Doug Deppe (Pacific plug and liner)
Taylor (AGS automated gutter systems) with Kaleb Langston from Lubing
Crop King with Jason Jurey, Nathan Donley. Exciting to share education at the show.
TAKS handling systems with Arie Meeuwissen and Chantal Broeders. Focusing on quality control within their systems.
Lots of discussions at the Barlett stall!
BiotaNutri with Peter Klein. Living nutrients
United Greenhouse Systems with Nathan Bilhorn
UltraTech Vermiculite, Jen Bagher
Charles Kim, Dong Joon Lee with Gigatera Lighting
Techmark Inc: Jason Koroniotis, Ted Gates and Brian Santruce
Ikeuchi USA. Takafumi Omotehara and J. D. Tierney.
Atlas Greenhouse, Joey Lockett and Bill Rowohlt
Always interesting to have discussions with Ceres Greenhouse Solutions
AGronomicIQ Bernard Parent, John Homenik, Al Grosskurth, Erika Summers
Quest, John Pratt
Argus Controls - Molly McKinney and Tim Beardall
Airlux Technologies. Looking for partners in the USA. Rob Leek, Ronald van de Oudeweetering, Robert Bakker
Legro Group- Botanicoir® Pablo Segovia
SGS Jason Guelph, Lynn Byrns
Stuppy Greenhouse- Jennifer Deshaw
Nygaia® - Klasmann-Deilmann and Maan: Mark Thomas, Martin Nugteren and Luuk Groenewoud
AdeptAg, FGM Evan Sharples, Ulrik Rasmussen Derek McLaughlin, Dave Taylor, Ashytn Chen, Kevin Prol
Growtec- Brian Zimmermann, Freddy Sarkis and Rob Vandersteen
Wicked Green - Mary Kay Carlo
Purifico Ozone- Rosalind Clarke and Cam Clarke
Synexis, Colin Henthorne
Sun Farmer's Group- solar builders. Brian Haynes, Jennifer Rogers, Matthew Pace
Provision - Jaymee McInerney
Siemens Tom visser, Stefania Stoccuto, Rick Schneiders, Raymundo Baca and Grant Peagler
Chorus with Chorus Gro™ David Johnson and Dan Logan
GoDEX with their GoLabel II
Agricultural Soil Products, Fabian Vital
Agrotek showcasing GrowControl
Dr Greenhouse celebrating their 100th episode! Danna Sweidan, Chanda Perman, Marcia Sabeh, Dr Nadia Sabeh
Higher Yields Consulting Cory Waggoner and Tom Waggoner
TagoIO Rob Moore and Bruno Rosa
Borlaug, Kurt Parbst and Nicholas Clover.
VelociGro - Jonathan Romo, Tim Cuthbertson, Hunter Baldwin
Pathosans - Ken Campbell, Jim McCNn, Brian Rominski
AGEYE, Tiffany Carroll, Nick Genty
AGEYE and their beautiful stand
RapidGrowLED - David Fried, Luis Garcia
ZGroup USA LLC - Florent Philippot
The Indoor Ag-Con kicked off with a keynote panel. Tom Stenzel, Executive Director of the CEA Alliance, moderated, discussing the state of the controlled environment agriculture (CEA) industry. Panelists included Tisha Livingston, CEO of Infinite Acres; Abby Prior, Chief Commercial Officer of BrightFarms; and Skip Hulett, Vice President and General Counsel of NatureSweet. https://www.hortidaily.com/article/9713184/we-were-never-going-to-disrupt-overnight-but-we-are-doing-it-now/
Tom Stenzel
A filled venue
Ready for the event!
Filled hall for the keynote
Tom Stenzel, Executive Director of the CEA Alliance
Tisha Livingston, CEO of Infinite Acres
Skip Hulett, Vice President and General Counsel of NatureSweet
Abby Prior, Chief Commercial Officer of BrightFarms
Graham Farrar, President and CCO, Glass House, Erika Summers, Business Development and Sales Manager, AGronomic IQ, Andrew Volpetti, Vice President Commercial Sales - MSOs & Key Regionals, Hydrofarm LLC and Max Wu, Head of North American Commercial Sales, Hydro Builder Holdings (Elevated) gave an overview of the cannabis industry within the framework of CEA
Jack Maruna, Program Coordinator For FoodU, Auburn University, David FlynnCEO, AmplifiedAg Inc, Ekene TharpeHead Grower, Babylon Micro-Farms and Henry Gordon SmithFounder & CEO, Agritecture discussed potential growth opportunities between CEA and the hospitality sector
Eric McClam, Co-Founder, City Roots Farm, Eva Helen, Executive, BRAVE Industries, Nina Sadighi PE, SMIEEE, Founder of Eradeh Power Consulting on waste to watt: innovative ways CEA operations can harness energy from unconventional sources
Elizabeth Reilley, President, Jonathan Sprouts, and Noah Meyerowitz, Co-Owner, Mumm's Sprouting Seeds, talked about the fascinating history of sprouts and their vital role in our evolutionary journey
Nanne Bentvelsen, VB, and Thomas Lindholm, US Organic Farm, had enough to talk about when meeting up
Glenn Behrman, Growtainers / Hydrofarm, with Shlomy Raziel, Grow-Tec
Kees Rodenburg, Enza Zaden, and Chris Froehlich, Hydrosun Hydroponics
Rebekka Boekhout, Phyto by RCB, moderated a panel on emerging crops in controlled environment agriculture, with Tsipi Shoham, Co-Founder & CEO, GreenOnyx Ltd, and Shun Sano, Founder & COO, Cai Foods Co
Shun Sano, Founder & COO, Cai Foods Co
The second cannabis panel examined the differences between intra-canopy and sub-canopy lighting in cannabis cultivation. The panel included David Hawley Ph.D, Principal Scientist, Fluence Bioengineering, Timothy Crowell, Founder, Faven Lighting Company, Jonathan Karall, Ph.D. Director of Production Research, Connected Cannabis Co, and F. Mitchell Westmoreland, Ph.D. Director of Science, Due Diligence Horticulture
Douglas Evans, CEO, The Sprouting Company, spoke about nutritional benefits of sprouts and their untapped potential to nourish all living beings
Tisha Livingston, CEO, Infinite Acres, Marc Oshima, CEO, Babylon Micro-Farms and Chris Higgins, President, Hort Americas, talked about the road to profitability in CEA, led by Kelli Rodda, Editorial Director, Produce Grower
Marc Oshima with Babylon Micro Farms and Matthew Lohr, Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry
Daniel Arredondo, Center for Food Innovation and Jack Maruna, Auburn University
Dramm and CE-Line were awarded the Product Innovation award
80 Acres won the Good Stewardship Award
Little Leaf Farms won the Operational Excellence award