Registration Now Open for the 2025 OHCEAC Conference
April 16, 2025 
This year's OHCEAC Conference took place at OSU's Controlled Environment Agriculture Research Complex (CEARC) in Columbus, Ohio.
Now in its fourth year, the Ohio Controlled Environment Agriculture Center’s (OHCEAC) Annual Conference will be held in partnership with North Carolina State University’s (NCSU) CEA Coalition on July 16 at the Controlled Environment Agriculture Research Center (CEARC) in Columbus, Ohio. This year’s event will focus on transplant production technologies and how they enhance sustainability as well as productivity in flowering, food, and forestry crops.
Key topics covered include:
- Substrate alternatives
- Root-pathogen-substrate interactions
- Symbiotic and beneficial microbes
- Vegetable grafting
- Stand establishment
- Seed technologies
Meet the keynote speakers:
- Paul Fisher, Ph.D. – Floriculture Professor and Extension Specialist at the University of Florida
- Rhonda deJonge, Ph.D. – Director of Vineland Research & Innovation Centre in Ontario, Canada
- Matt Kleinhenz, Ph.D. – Vegetable Professor and Extension Specialist at OSU
- Ricardo Hernandez, Ph.D. – Associate Professor at NCSU and member of the CEA Coalition
- Nadia Sabeh, Ph.D. – President and Founder of Dr. Greenhouse, Inc.
In-person and online registration is available. You can find a tentative schedule for this year’s conference and claim your spot by going here: https://ohceac.osu.edu/ohceac_annual_conference.
