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COVID-19 update

What is the recent status of Chinese growers?

The COVID-19 epidemic began more than a month ago and food has become a matter of fundamental importance. The growers who produce fruit and vegetables have started to play a…

Vacancies:

High tech in the basement at university greenhouse

A ‘green’ university obviously also wants ‘green’ greenhouses. For this reason, construction started on a one hundred percent electrical ‘high containment’ research greenhouse…

British grower adds 6 ha soft fruit greenhouse

Beeswax Dyson Farming has been granted permission to construct a state of the art 6 ha glasshouse with associated infrastructure at their farm in Carrington. Strawberries and…

CAN (PE): Kensington greenhouse operation now 100 per cent heated by renewable fuel

An Island farming operation will receive more than $800,000 for a project to increase energy efficiency and reduce fossil fuel use in its greenhouse operation. The Schurman…

Marco van der Velden new director of Berg Hortimotive

Since February 2020, Marco van der Velden has been Managing Director and CEO of Berg Hortimotive Group. With a background in the metalworking industry and general machine…

Video Enza Zaden introduces new tomato varieties

One thousand operators - producers, traders and buyers - from over 850 companies attended the House Fair Sicily 2020 Tomato DemoGreenhouse promoted by Enza Zaden in Sicily.…

Ohio State ATI adds hydroponic production of vegetables to greenhouse and nursery management program

The Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute (Ohio State ATI) greenhouse students now can engage in a hydroponic crop production course. The course is available…

Interview with Hilke Bos-Brouwers

Making circularity work

Hilke Bos-Brouwers has worked on the recently finalised, EU funded Horizon 2020 REFRESH project, where 26 partners from 12 EU countries and China were working together to…

This neural network knows all about plant development

iFarm, in cooperation with Poteha Labs and developers from Catalyst-Team, have started a Telegram bot for identifying deviations in crops growth in vertical farms: a neural…

UK: Survey to find out skills gap in edibles sector

Seeking better industry solutions to skills shortages in edible horticulture is the focus of a new survey by the AHDB and the NFU. Funded by AHDB and supported in kind by the…

Special Climate

A first for Honduras: wireless control irrigation unit

It is not the first country that comes to mind when people think about high-tech greenhouse horticulture innovations, but Honduras recently did have a scoop. At grower Exveco,…

4.5 hectares of geothermal greenhouses to be built in Sakarya, Turkey

The Akyazi municipality in Sakarya, a city located in northwestern Turkey, is planning to take a significant leap in greenhouse production in the area. The municipality…
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Russian company buys 11 ha greenhouse complex in Leningrad region

One of the biggest vegetable producers in Russia, GK Rost (earlier known as Technologii Teplichnogo Rosta), enters the Leningrad region. The company, owned by Mr. Sergey…

SEPC event

Southern Flavor Cocktail brings Georgia partners together in Tampa

An impressive list of Georgia growers, packaging suppliers, and retailers came together for a special evening during SEPC’s Southern Exposure at the ‘Southern Flavor Cocktail’…

Mastronardi, Oppy and Red Sun Farms among Canada’s Best Managed Companies award winners

Canada’s Best Managed Companies is a business awards program, recognizing excellence in Canadian-owned and managed companies with revenues over $25 million. The award, which…

Strategic partnership brings botanical-oil-based fungicide-bactericide to U.S. market

Kemin Crop Technologies has announced a strategic partnership agreement with Laboratoire M2, a Canada-based technology and science company, to distribute Thymox Control, a…

Research update: Internal rot in Aussie capsicums and chillies

Researchers are a few steps closer to unravelling the cause of internal rot in Australian capsicums and chillies. Samples of capsicum and chillies with internal rot, sent from…

Vertical farming: The advantages of growing up, not out

We share this planet with more than 7 billion people, and the UN forecasts that by 2050 we will need to feed over 9.7 billion. If you’re like me, you’re wondering what we can…

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"Congress must take action to address the structural limits in the H-2B program"

AmericanHort issued the following statement as the Department of Homeland Security announced the release of 35,000 supplemental H-2B visas for Fiscal Year…

"We want to see a world where commercial urban agriculture is economically feasible"

Alberto Lopez of Agritecture Consulting was interviewed by Diana Macovei of the Vertical Farming Conference, discussing trends and opportunities in the…

"Nectar Farms project still on the horizon"

Stawell's Nectar Farms project is still forging ahead says company chief executive Stephen Sasse. The company is still waiting to finalise legal documentation of funding.…

FDA’S 2020 Leafy Greens Action Plan

The leafy greens farming communities in California and Arizona welcome any action that helps prevent future foodborne illness outbreaks associated with our products. We value…

"Whitefly, aphids, moth eggs, spider mites, thrips – Macrolophus gobbles them all up"

While Macrolophus eats the eggs and larvae of greenhouse and tobacco whiteflies, it also loves aphids, spider mites and moth eggs. The bright green Macrolophus-System…

Purdue study finds signal cascade that keeps plant stem cells active

Pools of stem cells in the apical meristems of plants are key to continued growth and development. Understanding how these stem cells are maintained and balanced against…

Year-round fish and vegetables in the northern climate of Wisconsin

Recently, FarmHer visited Rebecca Nelson who, along with her husband, has quietly become a driving force in the aquaponics industry.  Armed with just a desire to grow their own…

Tomato seeds from space sown in Hungarian greenhouse

In the Veresegyház tomato greenhouse, cherry tomato specialties are cultivated in a hydroculture greenhouse, by a clean, natural method, biological plant protection, and in a…

Turkmenistan: Agri producers keep growing exports

In January-February of this year, Turkmen growers exported about 6,500 tons of tomatoes, over 3.6 thousand tons of legumes, and 76 tons of other vegetables.…

Catalonia approves first anti-food waste law in Spain

On Wednesday, March 4, Catalonia approved a law that aims to reduce food waste throughout the entire value chain, from the primary sector to the final…

New office and Public Affairs Advisor for Growing Media Europe

Eugenia Arcos Messana has started her position as Public Affairs Advisor on 2 March 2020 and will strengthen the GME team. Eugenia will be replacing Cecilia Luetgebrune during…

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