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Going Green – Lighting Designing for Horticulture Synopsis Ian Ashdown, P. Eng. (Ret.), FIES The future of food security in Canada is in greenhouses...

“Perfectly reasonable and valid scientific information is endlessly repeated and distorted from paper to press release to mass media articles”...

We're excited to share Ian Ashdown's latest published article in Fires - IES https://www.ies.org/fires/ultraviolet-radiation-terminology/

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From its introduction forty years ago, the Daily Light Integral (DLI) metric has become an important tool for determining monthly daylight availability for crops and estimating supplemental electric lighting requirements for greenhouses. DLI charts for the continental United States have been available for nearly two decades, but it has only been in the past year or so that DLI information for geographic locations worldwide has been made available through various online DLI calculators.

We are excited to announce that SunTracker Technologies’ Senior Scientist, Ian Ashdown will be presenting at the HortiCann Light+Tech virtual...

NOW NEW AND IMPROVED – SunTracker Technologies is pleased to announce that it has developed a web-based FREE to use online calculator to predict...