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Bom Group enters into strategic alliance with new partnership Atrium Agri

This week, on 18 December, Bram van der Kooy and Piet van Vliet transferred their shares in the Bom Group. The company is now in the hands of the current management (Mike…

Vacancies:

Autonomous Greenhouses Challenge gets underway

Can artificial intelligence outperform the greenhouse grower?

Tomatoes are planted in the greenhouses of the 2nd Autonomous Greenhouses Challenge. Growing tomatoes with artificial intelligence (AI) in autonomous greenhouses, even from…

control your drain with Paskal DrainVision

Increase growers income by reducing the daily drain

The ongoing trend of growing in substrates increases the necessity of efficient water and nutrient management for greenhouse production. An optimal irrigation strategy is…

Better light distribution over the crop

Proven results of LED interlighting for high-wire cultivation?

With a high-wire crop such as tomatoes, the light level decreases rapidly towards the bottom of the crop. Interlighting brings light to the spot in the crop where there is not…

Axia Sementi, the new Italian adventure for Axia Vegetable Seeds

"The Italian tomato market is very important, so we pay special attention to this market in our breeding activities. We'll breed directly in Italy and make the product…

Technology and the future of horticulture: a view from Canada

As part of the SmartHort project to accelerate the uptake of automation and robotics in UK horticulture, AHDB spoke to Saber Miresmailli, Founder & CEO of Ecoation. They asked…

Growing number of Chinese horticultural companies bring in foreign technology

The 18th China Greenhouse & Horticulture Industry Conference took place on November 13th, 2019, in Guiyang City. This conference attracted more than 700 participants from…

Flooding in Kenya challenges herb market during busiest time of year

“We have never seen rain like this before in these areas"

Weather issues in Africa causes challenges for the herb market right during their busiest time of the year. Saul Isaacs is from Agriver, an Israeli company that works with…

Franky van Looveren switches from De Ruiter to Tomeco

Franky van Looveren is going to make a transfer. After having worked for thirteen years as account manager and later as sales manager for De Ruiter Seeds in the Benelux and…

US (CA): New greenhouse facility allows for expanded research space

A project underway on the east side of the UC Riverside campus will offer high-tech greenhouse space where researchers from different disciplines can work together in a…

Tomato grower automates palletizer to stack higher, faster

To maximize how much product could fit on a truck for shipment, Canadian tomato farm Cecelia Acres wanted to stack its pallets higher than its employees could comfortably…

Plant breeding is the answer to the growing global need for food

As a result of the growing global population the demand for food is increasing. At the same time available agricultural land for food production is decreasing. “Making use of…

Special Year Overview 2019

Year overview November 1-15

November rain of expansions

Rain in November is nothing special, but the weather report for the first half of November was something else: it positively rained expansions, with a 50-hectare greenhouse…

Vestical farming

Always have your veggies with you

When Aroussiak Gabrielian, an assistant professor at USC Architecture, was pregnant with her daughter, she was amazed at her body’s ability to produce and deliver the exact…


Theodore Huggins, grower "The difference between growing at a pH of 5.5 and of 6.2 has an enormous impact on a crop” It’s not the most riveting subject in horticulture but if you don’t pay attention to pH, it can cost you a customer. Every grower knows that pH needs to stay between 5.5-6.5 in hydroponics because certain compounds can only be absorbed by plants at this level. "Many cannabis growers believe that by adding a significant amount of…

February 12-14, Wageningen

Lighting in greenhouses and vertical farms 2020

Do you want to improve the use of LED lighting in greenhouse production or vertical farming? Would you like to know how to reduce energy use and carbon foot print, how to…

Pleasing peppers for garden and plate

John Stommel is a plant geneticist, but he should probably be known as Professor Pepper. Stommel has devoted much of his 30-year career at the Agricultural Research Service…

Effects of water stress and modern biostimulants on mint

Natural biostimulants combine different elicitors that may influence economic properties of herbal crops, such as mint. In a new study, mint (Mentha longifolia L.) plants were…

Mike Chapman: HortNZ:

"Minimum wage needs a rethink"

Horticulture New Zealand believes minimum wage laws need to be reviewed so they reflect the reality of living and doing business in New Zealand. The Government confirmed that…

"Future of agriculture relies on diverse, inclusive workforce"

“We aren’t going to be successful in the aims we have for building diverse and inclusive thought partners, workplaces, universities, without the participation of everybody in…

New Zealand finds CGMMV in Queensland melon shipment

Biosecurity New Zealand has suspended fresh melon imports from Queensland following a border detection of an unwanted fruit disease. Biosecurity New Zealand detected cucumber…

New directorate of FiBL Switzerland

The Foundation Council of FiBL Switzerland has elected the new directorate: Knut Schmidtke, Marc Schärer and Lucius Tamm will take over the management of the Research…

UN declares 2021 to be international Year of Fruits and Vegetables

Last Thursday, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution to declare 2021 the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables. The resolution says the UNGA considered…

Nigeria: Greenhouse farming getting rooted in Lagos, Ogun

As the gap in efforts to produce enough food to feed the country’s increasing population continues to widen, experts have severally called for the innovation of agriculture in…

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Tangmere Nurseries

It’s all hands on deck to set up for the next season across our 75 acre site and to create the best growing environment for young pepper plants to thrive🌱Thank you to our…

Number of years since a "record hottest" and "record coldest" year

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American serpentine leafminer: A threat to all of horticulture

The American serpentine leafminer (Liriomyza trifolii) is a small fly belonging to the family Agromyzidae, that infects plants from 29 plant families including many…

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Fortuna strawberries ensure continuity in the market

"Returning to early season strawberry varieties after so many years was a choice encouraged by my clients. Despite our wide range of fruit and vegetables, we were asked to…

Conclusions of the round-table on Circular Economy at the COP25

Proper packaging can reduce global food waste

The director of the UNESCO Life Cycle and Climate Change ESCI-UPF course and observer of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change at COP25, Pere Fullana i…

"In November, the price of tomatoes was 38% lower than in 2018"

Spanish greenhouse vegetables: excess supply and low prices

“The average price of tomatoes this season is 29% lower than in the previous one. In November, Moroccan exports caused prices to fall by up to 38% compared to 2018, bringing…

The value of a hectare is 17 times greater than the national average

Almeria has the most expensive farmland in Spain

The results of the annual Land Price Survey carried out by the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture reveal that Almeria has the most expensive farmland in Spain. In 2018, the price…

Ban on genetically modified crops to be lifted in South Australia

The South Australian Government will let mainland farmers grow genetically modified (GM) crops from the start of 2020, sidestepping State Parliament which has…

Ary de Jong from Demokwekerij to HortiTech

After 10 years of loyal service at Demokwekerij Westland as cultivation manager, Ary de Jong will be joining HortiTech. There he will become a trainer and mentor from January…

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