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Combatting Tuta Absoluta with LED technology

LED lights are being used more and more in the horticultural industry, most often as grow lights. Yet now the Spanish company ATG Ingeniería has launched a tool in what LED…

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HSE 300: New automatic solution for spraying in a greenhouse

HSE 300 is the latest solution for spraying in a greenhouse. The machine has two spraying bars up to 3m high, one spraying the end of the row, the other spraying the plants on…

Growers mitigate labour pressures with efficient technology

Labour represents roughly one third of greenhouse growers ongoing costs, meaning that even a modest improvement can result in a big impact to bottom line performance. "With…

Buysman Kruiden prepares for Dutch Christmas rush

"Our turnover's soared; selling to retailers and garden centre puts us on the right side of things"

Buysman Kruiden in the Netherlands is getting ready for the Christmas bustle. "Because of COVID-19, everyone's having Christmas dinner at home. That's resulted in a…

PMA Australia-New Zealand

Food safety more of a focus for consumers than packaging sustainability in COVID-19 affected year

The COVID-19 pandemic has temporarily shifted consumers' views when it comes to the priority of sustainability in fruit and vegetable packaging, according to Produce Marketing…

Shore Breeze Farms is Northampton County Chamber of Commerce Business of the Year 2020

"Northampton County is made better by business owners such as the Sturgis Family"

The Northampton County Chamber of Commerce Business of the Year Award Recipient is selected each year by nominations from the Membership. The recipient is one who provides a…

2Grow and 30MHz partnership

'New app offers detailed plant insights to grow smarter'

Biotechnology company 2Grow and 30MHz have joined forces to develop smart data tools that provide growers, breeders and researchers with even more detailed insights into the…

New novel tomato variety debuts

Village Farms has introduced its newest exclusive tomato variety, Sensational Sara®. Sensational Sara® is a novel tomato variety with a deep red color inside and out. The…

Indian research

"Polyhouse greenhouses have a positive effect in the stability of growers' income"

India is the fifth largest producer of tomato accounting for 6.0% of the world production. The major growing states are Odisha, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. Tomato…

Special Year Overview 2020

Summer temperatures and hot novelties in July

Over summer we published about various LED novelties on our newsletter. The acreage of LED-lit cultivation is growing rapidly and the knowledge on the lights as well. And…

BioTherm

Roll’N Grow makes heating floors and benches easy

Bottom heat that rolls out like a carpet

Growers now have a quick, easy way to provide the game-changing root zone heating that plants prefer. Roll’N Grow covers benches and floors with growth-enhancing heat in a…

Pepper Joe’s in Urbana’s Clickstop complex

US (MA): Pepper seed breeder expands with a new greenhouse

Pepper Joe’s in Urbana’s Clickstop complex is expanding its production with a new greenhouse and plans to have it completed by mid-March of 2021. “Despite the state the…

CPVO releases new version of Variety Finder

The CPVO has released an improved version of its Variety Finder database on 10 December 2020. The Variety Finder database, managed and kept up to date by the CPVO, contains…

AI Institute for Next Generation Food Systems

"Artificial Intelligence improves America’s food system"

Technology is everywhere in the 21st century, and America’s food system is no exception. Scientists with the USDA Agricultural Research Service’s (ARS) Western…

United Fresh Tom Stenzel comments on Vilsack USDA nomination

President-Elect Joe Biden announced Tuesday that he would nominate Tom Vilsack to be his Secretary of Agriculture. Vilsack previously served as USDA Secretary…

Tomatoes offer affordable source of Parkinson’s disease drug

Scientists have produced a tomato enriched in the Parkinson’s disease drug L-DOPA in what could become a new, affordable source of one of the world’s essential…

Farms.com

'CEA or vertical farming will be an important area for agriculture in the future'

John Harnett, Founder and CEO of accelerator THRIVE, joined the Virtual Precision Agriculture Conference from Silicon Valley in California. He explained that the worlds of…
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small-scale tomato growers

Blocking light for postgrafting healing researched

The use of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) grafting is gaining traction across the United States, but small-scale growers face the challenge of creating optimum postgrafting…

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UK: Go ahead for expansion of tomato greenhouse Woodend Nursery

Unanimous approval has been given to the expansion of the Woodend Nursery in Over Peover.  Cheshire East councillors gave the go-ahead to the scheme, which will see a new glasshouse,…

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An update on our ongoing project at CJ Love, Dartford. The glasshouse will cover approximately 1440m2 featuring a partial horizontal screening system, and glasshouse air…

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Jan Potgieter – Grow BothaRoodt

Shortage of Saladette tomatoes on South African market

The shortage of tomatoes now developing on the market, after a month-long glut, is masked by low demand, says Jan Potgieter, tomato specialist at Grow BothaRoodt agency in…

Building fresh produce brand recognition and food education through direct connections with consumers

A new online food directory linking customers with agricultural producers is seeing more at-home consumers showing an interest in learning more about where their fresh produce…

France’s vegetable vending machines

With the business of selling chocolate bars to office workers in meltdown owing to the Covid crisis, French vending machine makers have turned to experts on growth: farmers.…

S. Korea to send chartered flights to Singapore with strawberry shipments

South Korea's agricultural ministry said Thursday it will send chartered flights to Singapore to support exports of strawberries, as local farmers have been…

United Fresh BrandStorm™ marketing conference goes virtual

United Fresh’s sixth annual BrandStorm™ event will take place online March 9-11, 2021. The signature marketing conference will gather produce marketers for…

Cajamar's analysis of the 2019/2020 horticultural campaign

The value of Almeria's horticultural exports grew by 21.3% in five years

According to the recently presented analysis of the 2019/2020 fruit and vegetable campaign prepared by Cajamar, the prices at origin of most of the products of…

Frutura announces ambitious new building plans

New logistics center to create around 100 jobs

Austrian fruit and vegetable retailer Frutura is converting the former Wick window factory in Vorchdorf (Styria) into a logistics hub that is to employ some 100 people towards…

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