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Growers count heating hours while getting reacquainted with autumn tomato cultivation

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Michigan Greenhouse Growers Expo & Great Lakes Expo concluded

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Greenhouse growers, Leamington mayor welcome news migrant workers may be able to bring families

The greenhouse industry and the mayor of Leamington are applauding the federal government's plan to extend work permits to family members of temporary foreign workers in the…

How Agaris aims to build more sustainable growing media

Horti-BlueC is an inter-regional research project studying how the commercial strawberry and tomato cultivation can be made more sustainable by, for example, using local,…

Pablo González, BerryDealer Manager:

"We expect strawberry sales will be as good as forecast"

Huelva's strawberry campaign started a few weeks ago with the earliest varieties, and even though the offer is still limited, the demand for Spanish products is starting to be…

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82.62% of the Spanish zucchini exported in the 2021/22 campaign were produced in the greenhouses of Almeria

In the 2021/2022 campaign, Almeria exported 319.8 million kilos of zucchini and was Spain's leading zucchini-exporting province, accounting for 82.62% of the 386.42 million…

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Kenya: Synnefa charts a food security path with smart greenhouses

By providing farmers with smart sensor-installed greenhouses, agriculture technology company Synnefa is solving three problems in Kenya: reducing the cost of farming,…

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10 stories about growers dealing with the energy crisis from 2022

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US (PA): Goodwill Greenhouse program expanding

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Video Meet the biologist behind a space mission to grow plants on the Moon

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Sustainable solutions using biocontrol and IPM strategies

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As water becomes increasingly scarce in the American West, a group of university and industry partners has been pursuing innovations in the largest use of this key resource:…

Paul Greve, PBR International on their rooting hormone powder Dynaroot

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