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"Everybody said we couldn't do it"

Happy New Year! Here's the best of the last: the best read articles from 2022

Almost everybody knows the feeling of somebody telling you that you will fail and then succeeding after all. Feels pretty good, right? Well, that might be why our best-read…

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Netherlands: Four greenhouse vegetable companies merge into one company: The Valley

Dutch tomato growers Greenway, Greenvalley, Van der Voort, and Kwekerij van den Berg are joining forces and continuing under one name and as one company. The four companies…

$127 million sale-leaseback of Berea greenhouse

COFRA Holding and Mastronardi acquire AppHarvest's Berea greenhouse

On December 27, 2022, AppHarvest announced that it has finalized the sale-leaseback of its Berea, Kentucky, lettuce greenhouse for just over $127 million and has opened its…

Mediterranean fruit fly

US: Pepper imports from Spain prohibited

The U.S. has suspended imports of fresh bell peppers from Spain due to multiple Medfly detections during Customs and Border Protection (CBP) inspections of…

LED lighting installed in first greenhouse in Greece

Signify has supplied its Philips GreenPower LED toplighting to Intelligent Green Crops S.A (IGC S.A.), known as the Magikos Kipos (Magic Garden), an innovative company which…

Perfection Fresh Statement:

Baby cucumbers linked to salmonella cases in Western Australia

On December 23rd, Perfection Fresh was notified by the Western Australia Department of Health that up to 19 people had become unwell, after a common factor…

"Our R&D Lab helps fine-tune and automate all the in- and outputs of plant production"

"I think the CEA market will grow rapidly over the next years. It can be the solution for a lot of problems we will be facing in the future. Increased demand for food due to…

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CAN: As Ontario farmland disappears, vertical farm industry grows

According to data from Canada’s 2021 Census of Agriculture, Ontario is losing 319 acres of farmland daily. This number is likely to increase after a housing law passed earlier…

Marco Romein handles sales for Spanish growers

"Our mixed pallets of Spanish specialties help us stand out on the market"

Marco Romein used to own the Dutch company Snijpunt, so he started getting vegetables from Spain back in 2001 to source fresh vegetables for processing in the winter. Over the…

UK: "Energy and labor must not hinder the hort sector in 2023"

In his New Year message, NFU Horticulture and Potatoes Board chair Martin Emmett praises the determination of the sector and looks to the government to deliver its ambition to…

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Introduction to hydroponic crop production

AmHydro of Arcata, CA, will be hosting another  “Introduction to Hydroponic Crop Production” Seminar taking place on Thursday and Friday, February 23rd and 24th. Taking place at…

Special Trade Shows

It's trade show time!

It's been two years, but we can start 2023 with a nicely filled-up agenda! We'll kick off with the Soft Fruit Conference next week, the Tropical Plant International Expo in…

What’s the best strategy to market a product that no one thinks you can grow?

For Cindy and Ron Mueller, who run Fisherville Greenhouses near Lake Erie, an hour south of Hamilton, the farm business was ticking along. It felt like they had it pretty much…

Spinach contamination warning issued

Australia: Open field spinach contaminated and recalled

Nine people from four different Sydney households have required medical attention after experiencing toxic reactions linked to eating packaged spinach. Authorities believe the…

Susanne Mosmans leaves Future Crops

Susanne Mosmans, formerly the Business Unit Director at Future Crops, will take on a new role at The Line. Future Crops is a vertical farm positioned in Poeldijk, the…

Egyptian farmers exploit climate change by drying tomatoes

Several farmers in the Nile Valley region believe that the high temperatures caused by climate change could be turned into an opportunity and a blessing for a…

Bonduelle Group reacts to dissemination of false information

The Bonduelle Group has issued a statement in a reaction to what it has called 'dissemination of false information': "On December 30th, Russian social media…

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Russian Scientists develop new technology for Plant Breeding

Skolkovo (Russia), Dec 30 (ANI/ TV BRICS): The scientists at Skoltech Agri-technologies Design Centre are using the latest breeding technologies to produce plants with special…

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Harvest pesticide-free greens at PJ mall’s rooftop farm

Consumers can now harvest their own pesticide-free vegetables at the rooftop farm of a Petaling Jaya mall. Fresh Growcer at 1 Utama Shopping Centre in Petaling Jaya is open…
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How conventional and organic growers can achieve higher yields while saving on fertilizers

He grew up in New York City, didn’t have any contacts in the agricultural industry, and had never been to a farm. But after selling a successful business at age 63 and being…

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Belarus extends embargo on Western food imports until June 30, 2023

Belarus has extended the embargo on food products from Western countries for another six months. This means that Paragraphs 1 and 3-5 of Government Resolution…

Domestic radicchio rosa season gets underway at the beginning of 2023

Primed to start when consumers are ready to put holiday eating behind them, the domestic radicchio rosa season will get a slightly later start this year out of California. J.…

Oppy’s logistics arm looks back on a 30-year long haul

Oppy's third-party logistics arm celebrates three decades of delivering goods from around the world to its retail and food service partners. Originally established in 1992 as…

The Food Safety Agency calls for caution on the Salmonella outbreak that Norway links to Spanish cucumbers

The Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition (Aesan), attached to the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, has called for caution to avoid generating alarm…

"Even during the pandemic, the market demand for dataloggers has not declined"

With the relaxation of domestic pandemic prevention policies in China, the market is gradually recovering. Frigga is a professional real-time Datalogger solution provider. At…

Goh Ah Huat, - Daikin Refrigeration

"This technology works well for all perishables but particularly on commodities such as lettuce, cut flowers"

Daikin Active CA was launched into the market in 2017. The Daikin CA unit works within a shipping container with a self-contained nitrogen generator that produces its own…

Luis Miguel Valero, from Camposeven:

"The current overproduction of Iceberg lettuce could later create a gap in the market"

The weather has been a decisive factor in this year's Spanish lettuce campaign. "We have a widespread overproduction because of the atypical high temperatures at this time of…

Frutaria:

"Candine, one of the sweetest apples on the market, hopes to win over younger consumers"

"The club apple market is increasingly more competitive year after year. Since apples can be shipped to very distant markets without quality problems, the market is flooded…

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The 13 best songs about fruit of all time

Strawberries, blueberries, peaches, pineapple, cherries, and oranges would make a delicious fruit salad. They also happen to make up a list of great songs. So many songs have…

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