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Thursday, December 19, 2019

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A peek inside Hishtil's facility in Afula

Video Israel: Automation provides the answer to growing demand

With three new sticking machines just having been installed, Hishtil is ready for 2020. Over the last years, they have seen an increase in demand - and particularly for their…

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Sales and Procurement Manager - Arizona, USA

What will be Zuurbier's Next Top Variety?

"It's one of the most difficult questions in our industry: what will you plant?" That applies particularly to rose growers, and with Rosaline Zuurbier and colleagues facing…

Grower reduces labor with LED toplighting

Kalamazoo Specialty Plants (KSP) propagates hundreds of varieties of bedding annuals and perennials, and more than one million herbs under 700,000 square feet of greenhouses.…

Growing plants about nurturing potential

If you stepped inside Brittany Weerts’ greenhouse, the first thing you would notice is how beautiful, colorful, and organized the plants look. Giving great time and detail to keep…

Nursery manager spends day as Christmas elf

For the 13th December 2019 Save the Children Christmas Jumper Day, Walberton Nursery decided it wasn’t enough to simply ask staff to wear a Christmas jumper for the day, and…

Alina Perfumella rose named after floral designer

Alina Perfumella is a smaller-scale garden rose from the Meilland collection. A delicate name for a variety with a delicate look and fragrance. Roses do not name themselves…

Generating electricity from “waste” light can lower greenhouse production costs

Electricity is a major expense for Canadian greenhouse growers. At the same time, their large facilities offer potential to produce renewable solar energy – but the challenge…

Paskal DrainVision Floor-Scale

"Following the online water content in the substrate will improve irrigation efficiency significantly"

Optimal irrigation strategy throughout the day and along the growing period requires a deep understanding of the growing substrate, plant physiology and the water uptake by…

Special Year Overview 2019

October 16-31, 2019:

Unrest Ethiopia, Colombian farm visit reports and more...

When Ecuador has calmed down, unrest started in the Oromia region of Ethiopia, the second half of October 2019. Also here, many industries, including the flower industry was…

April 23-24, Westland and Delft

Robots in the greenhouse

RoboCrops is a key event that seeks to accelerate the development of robotics in greenhouse horticulture with hackathons, presentations and matchmaking. The global leaders in…

Thousands of exotic blooms on display at ‘Japan in Flowers’

Flower fans in Hanoi will have the chance to enjoy thousands of exotic fresh flowers from Japan when an exhibition dedicated to the blooms opens in the city on Thursday,…

August 26-28, Portland

Farwest Show now accepting exhibitor booth applications

The 2020 Farwest Show is now accepting exhibitor booth applications as it heads into its 48th year. The horticultural trade show will be held August 26–28 at the Oregon…


from Picasso to plants: horticulture becomes art Tomatoes to grow in 2020 Guggenheim exposition In 2019 there was a fuss about tomato plants growing in the East River in New York. In 2020 tomato plants will be growing at an even more remarkable location: in the New York Guggenheim Museum! In the exposition Countryside, The Future, created in collaboration with Rem Koolhaas, various horticultural solutions will be shown…

India: Advisor Khan for enhanced expertise to tap huge potential in floriculture

Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, Farooq Khan today maintained that in the age of specialization, invoking expertise would help in tapping huge potential of floriculture sector…

Beneficial Insectary introduces newest IPM Specialist

Erik van der Sluys received a degree in Ecological Systems and minor in Biology in 2014 from Seattle University. Since then, he has worked as a Farm Manager for Seattle…

The rugose virus threat – Will it affect your spring crops?

If you are a Canadian ornamental grower that also grows tomato liners as part of your spring crop selection, or if you grow ornamental peppers, here is what you need to know…

Australia: Applications still open for 2020 Hort Masterclass

There is still time to apply for 2020 Masterclass in Horticultural Business, with applications closing at midnight on Friday, 17 January. This year there will be five places…

Today on social media

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Employees Toy Appeal nets 100 toys for local children. Story 👉 https://t.co/AUN3Hc9qsJ pic.twitter.com/PNaUFF0KNC — Syngenta Huddersfield (@SyngentaHD2) December 18, 2019

CalFlowers installs new officers

At the December quarterly board meeting, the CalFlowers board installed the new officers for the coming year: Frank Biddle, President Steve Dionne, Vice President Marc Robinson, Treasurer…

Profile Products welcomes Andrew Yablonski as Northeast regional sales manager

Profile Products has hired Andrew Yablonski as regional sales manager for the Northeast region. His territory will include West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland,…

UK: Supermarkets’ single-use plastic waste rises to nearly 1 mln tons a year

Despite public commitments to cut down on their packaging, supermarkets' use of single-use plastic has risen to more than 900,000 tons a year. Seven out of the…

Vietnam: Annual Conference Meeting of Flowers and Ornamental Plants held in Hanoi

Tuesday November 10, NVHBP was present at the Annual Conference Meeting of Flowers and Ornamental Plants in Hanoi organised by the Fruit and Vegetable Research Institute…

13 new members joined FSI in 2019

In their last update FSI presented 5 new members (Aldi Netherlands, AIPH, Syngenta Global Flower Business, Kuehne + Nagel and Blomsterlandet), and now they can present another…

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