HortiDaily Newsletter | Monday, February 27, 2023

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12 charges after Leamington enforces light abatement bylaw

CAN (ON): Lights burn a hole in growers' pockets

Leamington bylaw officers have charged 12 greenhouse owners with a total of 88 charges for allegedly violating the town’s light abatement rules. “It is…

Dutch grower signed multi-year agreement to deploy robotic workers

MetoMotion has signed a multi-year agreement with RedStar for the purchase of multiple MetoMotion’s Greenhouse Robotics Worker (GRoW). RedStar started…

Launch of Roamler’s Monday Morning Price Tracker

After a successful pilot in January, Roamler will launch their newest monitor, the Monday Morning Price Tracker (MMPT), in March 2023. Subscribing to…

Can the LED grow light market recover its growth trajectory?

The global horticultural industry has become one of the most popular end markets for LED lights in recent years. Many companies from the lighting…

"The emperor has no clothes," says Shay Zeltzer

"Paper-based packaging for fresh produce, a colossal mistake"

Shay Zeltzer has been in the business of preserving freshness and reducing food waste for almost 30 years now, yet spending two days at the Fruit…

Getting ready for HortEx: tradeshow starts Wednesday, March 1st

Prior to the pandemic, Vietnam was seen as highly interesting for international greenhouse suppliers, and the HortEx tradeshow provided them with a…

Semillas Fitó will showcase them in the latest TomatoXperience edition from March 7 to 9

ToBRFV-resistant cherry pear and bouquet tomato varieties

The Tomato Brown Rugose Virus (ToBRFV) is one of the main challenges that the tomato-producing sector has been facing in recent years. Since its…

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CEA Alliance announces expanded Board of Directors, new members

The Controlled Environment Agriculture Alliance (CEA Alliance) has announced new Directors elected to serve on its expanded Board of Directors. Members…

UK: Marwell Zoo calls upon horti experts to ‘upcycle’ disused glasshouse and create new ‘semi desert’ animal exhibit

A popular Hampshire zoo has turned to the expertise of East Yorkshire commercial glasshouse specialists CambridgeHOK to 'upcycle and revamp' an old…

CAN (ON): Ontario’s fruit and vegetable growers elect new Chair and Vice Chair

Ontario’s fruit and vegetable growers have a new Chair and Vice Chair leading their organization. Vegetable grower Shawn Brenn was elected as the new…

Transplanting young vegetable plants on rockwool automated

At Beekenkamp Plants, a new machine helps sort plants by quality and leaf direction of tomatoes, among other things. The machine can also tilt pepper…

The advantages of double energy screens

The use of double energy screens is not a new concept among greenhouse cultivators. "Due to rising energy prices and the goal to be carbon-neutral by 2040,…

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US (NM): Campus greenhouses provide control for research, peaceful space

Castetter Hall at the University of New Mexico is home to several greenhouses, utilized for everything from research to serving as a peaceful oasis on…

Agrivoltaics: more sustainability and cost efficiency for agriculture

Skyrocketing prices for electricity and fossil energy carriers, the climate protection debate, and – not least – sustainability: All these aspects are fueling…

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Tomato prices soar in Ukraine as imports from Türkiye lack

The supply of greenhouse tomatoes on the Ukrainian market has decreased again this week, EastFruit project analysts inform. Most Ukrainian…

Brussels urban farms Peas & Love are bankrupt

Peas & Love‘s rooftop farms in Uccle and Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe have been declared bankrupt. However, the Brussels pioneer of urban agriculture still remains…

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Türkiye: Antalya municipality donates greenhouse nylon to growers

Antalya Metropolitan Municipality does not leave the producer alone on their difficult day. The Metropolitan Municipality provided 14 thousand 8 square…

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Iran: 6,800 tons of products produced in Kordestan greenhouses per year

As announced by a provincial official, 6,800 tons of products are produced in greenhouses of Kordestan province, in the west of Iran, per annum. Peyman…

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Indonesia: “This nursery will later produce roughly 20 million seeds annually”

President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Thursday paid a visit to the Mentawir nursery, which is located in the area of the future new capital city of…

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Farming with AI: Optimizing pollination for better food production

A new monitoring system developed by Monash University researchers uses artificial intelligence (AI) to track bees’ movement to help improve…

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Cambodia: Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Dith Tina keen on Japanese-backed net house culantro plan

Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Dith Tina has shown support for a Japanese-backed plan to grow culantro (Eryngium foetidum L) in net…

Watercress from Spain: Salad leaf still in good supply in the UK

In Spain, where many winter vegetables and salad crops are grown for the UK market, bad weather and transport disruption have resulted in widely reported…

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CAN (ON): Growing smarter and for longer in the North

Can technology help alleviate labor and climate challenges facing Northern Ontario’s horticultural sector? That’s the question the Northern Ontario…

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US (NB): Greenhouse enhances education at Adams Central

The school started discussing the addition of a greenhouse about two years after the agriculture and FFA programs were brought to Adams Central.…

Portugal record fresh produce and flower exports, reaches over €2 billion

Portuguese fruit, vegetable and flower exports reached the highest value ever in 2022: 2040 million euros. This result represents an increase of 15.6%…

Fruit and vegetable industry continues to battle market forces and tough weather conditions

16 percent increase in the cost of fruit and vegetables compared to 2022

The release today of the monthly Food Price Index showing a 16 percent increase in the cost of fruit and vegetables around Aotearoa compared with January 2022…

“Vegetable prices were constantly rising over the past two weeks”

The vegetable market can feel the uncertainty of the bad weather and other challenges the Spanish and Dutch have had to endure the past weeks. It’s…

Fortuna and Rociera continue to be the most planted strawberry varieties in Huelva

As highlighted by Ifapa's estimate of the varietal composition of Huelva's 2022/2023 strawberry campaign, there is a significant decrease in the planting of…

NL: Not a wave of bankruptcies, but a cry for help from greenhouse horticulture was justified

As winter set in, the alarm sounded that almost a third of greenhouse horticulture entrepreneurs were in liquidity problems or at risk of being in liquidity…

Enova acquired by software group

Enova has become part of Vitec Software Group. On 23 February, the company, active in energy management for greenhouse horticulture, among others, was acquired. Vitec has offices…