Kurt is the President of Borlaug LLC, a controlled environments engineering consultancy and systems integrator.

Kurt holds an MS in Biological and Agricultural Engineering from NC State University and over the past 20 years, Kurt has worked in engineering, sales, and marketing roles in the field of design and specification of environmental control technologies for the commercial cultivation of plants. He focuses on the energy intensive aspects of cultivation including systems for power generation/cogeneration, humidity control, lighting, with an eye on energy, resource, and labor efficiencies.

He regularly writes and speaks about the importance that the growing environment has on greenhouse crop production and about technologies that allow us to grow plants commercially with efficient and environmentally sensitive methods.