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Happy Holidays!

In the greenhouse where the veggies gleam,Christmas feels like a snowy dream.Vines decorated with fruits colorfull and round,Bright LEDS provide a festive surround. Well - let's…

Roberto Ramirez and Chuck Tyron:

"At Bushel Boy, we’re not the new kid on the block"

Although Bushel Boy Farms operated for decades in the tomato sector, the assortment of the US greenhouse company has expanded in recent years to…

Andrew Smith - Butler Market Gardens

“In the Christmas week we sell up to three times more herbs than normal"

At Christmas people tend to splash out a bit and buy ingredients that they might not use regularly, this is true for fresh herbs. According to Andrew…

Bell pepper grower invests in water quality: 'I missed spontaneity in the crop'

Cultivation-wise, it was another challenging year for bell pepper growers. Kwekerij De Westhoek is also familiar with the problems that many growers…

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Plenty:

"As the volume goes up, the cost will go down, enabling us to supply year-round"

"We are getting closer to constructing our Laramie R&D facility and are ready to break ground in 2024. It looks promising for expanding capacity and…

Dave Boer, Huisman Screen Systems

"Screen installations are being used more often and more intensively"

Screen systems have become increasingly important for the cultivation of all kinds of crops and are therefore more often used. The use of screen…

Surexport acquires a majority stake in Jong Fruit, expanding its strawberry production capabilities to Northern Europe

Surexport, a Spanish player in the production and commercialization of berries, has acquired a majority stake in Jong Fruit, a Dutch strawberry producer. The…

"This location ensures optimal plant quality with greenhouse innovations"

At the Lutjebroek location of Beekenkamp Plants Vegetables, a wide variety of young cabbage plants is grown on more than 4 hectares. These plants…

Reduction and replacement of peat in substrates

The growing media industry and users of growing media will need to substitute (part of) their peat usage, as the extraction of peat results in both a…

Kew experts predict horticulture trends for 2024

‘2022 was one of the warmest, driest years on record, and this shows that there’s a pressing need to consider how the UK landscape could change over…

SECURED: USDA issues permit for Santa’s reindeer to enter the U.S.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) today issued a transit permit to Mr. S. Nicholas Claus…

Growth and development of leaf vegetable crops under conditions of the Phytotechnical complex in Antarctica

Ensuring the technical and technological possibility of regularly obtaining fresh, high-quality plant production in Antarctic stations is an urgent…

Fresh herb industry braces for Christmas as busiest week of the year while tackling challenges

As the holiday season approaches, the fresh herb industry braces for the busiest week of the year, navigating challenges that threaten the stability of…

Junior professor and Humboldt Fellow from Melbourne chose JKI for his research

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has sponsored the research project of Dr. Peter Dracatos, breeding researcher and junior professor at La Trobe…

CAN (BC): Windset Farms partners with CityReach Care Society

Windest Farms has partnered with CityReach Care Society since 2010, contributing weekly shipments of fresh, greenhouse-grown produce to the…

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A picking robot for the greenhouse

Working in a greenhouse is both strenuous and time-consuming. The picking robot from ETH spin-off Floating Robotics takes on particularly repetitive…

Financial challenges lead to greenhouse area reduction in Kazakhstan

In 2023, Kazakhstan allocated EUR 250 million for developing the agricultural sector, including greenhouse cultivation. Prime Minister Alihan Smailov cited the…

Approximately $35 billion in cargo diverted already

Global trade to be affected by Red Sea attacks

After an increase in attacks by the Iran-backed Houthis, the world's largest shipping firms are staying away from the Red Sea and Suez Canal. Over the…

Saudi Arabia: 20,000m2 vertical farm construction kicks off

"We require three months to install the equipment and two months to test it. If everything goes to plan, then we’ll be harvesting our first crops in…

"Daughter's epic christmas prank: Brussels Sprouts disguised as chocolates"

Judy Louie Brown pulled off a memorable Christmas prank on her dad, shared on X (formerly Twitter). She devised a playful yet diabolical scheme…

Registration open for "Introduction to Greenhouse Environmental Control" online course

Registration for Advancea Academy’s upcoming online course, "Introduction to Greenhouse Environmental Control for Crop Production” is open. This…

Learn to analyze crop data without programming yourself

By using sensors, companies in greenhouse horticulture increasingly have access to data, for example about diseases. But how can all that data be…

Haim Rosenblum, Hishtil

"Durabello: climate-resilient plants for a green future"

Global warming is the cause of many negative phenomena, such as desertification, extreme climate change, and natural disasters. These impact…

Barry Michiels, Michiels Brothers:

"The Belgian greenhouse vegetable market is very quiet as the year draws to a close"

The Belgian greenhouse vegetable market is unusually calm as the year draws to a close. Various traders seem to be remarkably quiet. "There's always a…

Upper Austria:

BIOhof Geinberg awarded 'Energy Star'

The state of Upper Austria awarded the 'Energy Star' state energy prize to pioneers of the energy transition. BIOhof Geinberg received the award in the "Energy…

Huelva strawberries arrive with high demand and prices and with the great challenge posed by drought

The strawberry campaign kicked off recently in Huelva, Europe's largest berry supplier during the winter and spring, and all eyes there are set on the…

The EU packaging law enters its final stage of negotiations

Spain's agri-food sector is leading the country's companies' efforts to relax the new EU packaging waste regulation, which is approaching its final phase of…

Raspberries in Huelva decreased by 21.5%, and strawberries fell by 3%

Producers in Huelva have devoted a total of 11,243 hectares to berry production for the 2023/2024 campaign. That is 4.75% less than the 11,802 hectares…

After 15 years in the herb industry, Drona Pantjoe launched Kenya Fresh.

"We'll get the first Portuguese salicornia in the second week of January"

After working in the herb industry for 15 years, Drona Pantjoe chose to go it alone a year ago, on December 5. He started Kenya-Fresh. "I started as a…

"Market demand for our strawberries is very good at the moment"

That's what grower Wim de Weert shares from Portugal. He grows strawberries there and has been doing so for 15 years, as he told us just this autumn.…

"Chris van Stam, Bogaerds Architects:

"As an architect, you search for the design's deeper layer"

After a fire ravaged the former vegetable exporter Van Dijk Delft, Bogaerds Architects received its first commission from the fruit and vegetable…

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Coles and Aussie growers have partnered: 50 tonnes of free ‘reindeer carrots’

Iceland: 1p vegetable sale in run up to Christmas

Mercadona ends 2023 with 49 stores in PortugalSpanish supermarket chain Mercadona has expanded its presence in neighbouring Portugal by opening 10 new…