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(USDA), 2013 ]. The United States produces almost 20% of the world crop and leads the world in production per unit area. The farm gate economic value of strawberries has been between $2.3 billion and $2.8 billion during the past 3 years ( USDA, 2017

) describes 20 years of research evaluating nursery crops grown using hundreds of experimental substrates derived from individual or combined raw or composted farm, industrial, and consumer-waste by-products. With few exceptions, the waste materials served as

retail distribution industry group includes farm and garden equipment merchant wholesalers (423820), nursery and florist merchant wholesalers (42493), lawn and garden equipment and supplies stores (4442), and florists (4531). These green industry sectors

grafting robots). The capital/facility items that we consider are found in the later section of capital costs. Each item has a typical “useful life” according to the available guidelines of the IRS (2012) . For example, farm buildings such as a headhouse

and water usage in the landscape In the residential context, indoor water usage remains relatively stable throughout the year and is largely attributed to household size and appliance efficiency ( Gregory and Leo, 2003 ; Syme et al., 1991 ). However

.3% had purchased trees, and 24.5% had purchased indoor flowering plants. These were similar to Butterfield (2007) who showed that 33% of Americans participated in flower gardening, 30% participated in landscaping, and 22% participated in vegetable

is produced not only in glasshouses but plastic-glazed houses and indoor facilities heated through many methods, most of which are not manure-based. By examining both historical trends and current practices, we can deduce possible future CE hydroponic

of age, and 13.1% were older than age 61. Approximately 90.1% of the sample selected indoor plants as their daily horticultural activity, and 61.6% chose excursions (e.g., visiting botanical gardens, parks, farms, greenhouses, and attending flower

vertical farms. Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd Kozai, T. Niu, G. 2016a Overview and concept of closed plant production system (CPPS), p. 3–5. In: T. Kozai, G. Niu, and M. Takagaki (eds.). Plant factory: An indoor vertical farming system for efficient

determine the factors that influence bruising susceptibility in tomato fruit. In the current study, impact force was monitored by an accelerometer at a farm. Then, bruising and changes in quality were observed by performing an experiment in the laboratory