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Bringing research and market together in new Syngenta demo greenhouse

Three weeks ago the new demo greenhouse of Syngenta was filled with plants. The 1.4 hectare greenhouse is now a place where the Syngenta tomato and pepper varieties are…

UK’s largest tomato supplier gets £25m bespoke funding package

Specialist SME lender Shawbrook Bank has successfully completed its largest ever working capital transaction in the North West, providing APS Group with a £25m bespoke funding…

András Újszászi – CTO, Gremon Systems PLC

From reactive to proactive greenhouse management

As many other industries, the greenhouse industry is facing huge problems such as higher wages, the shortage of labor, changing workforce habits, profit expectations, need of…

Costa’s in Australia increasing its size with automation

When considering one of Australia’s largest wholesaler, distributor and exporter of fresh fruit and vegetables, the dynamic and entwined structure of the Viscon Group is able…

50 acre Kingsville projects have a value of $73 million

The four greenhouse construction projects that were realised in 2019 in Kingsville total over 50 acre (20 hectare) in size and according to Kingsville Mayor…

Martin Tietema, CEO of Foamplant:

"We are now able to offer certainty towards growers regarding our claim on biodegradability"

Last year, Foamplant introduced the horticultural substrate Growfoam. Growfoam is a patent pending biodegradable plant substrate for seedling germination and plant…

webinar, January 23

LED basics applied to horticulture lighting systems

This webinar, presented by Dr. Robert Karlicek, will first give a brief overview of LED design and manufacturing, including the different types of LEDs used in…

Digitelling the future of horticulture

Klasmann-Deilmann is driving digitisation forward in commercial horticulture. At the International Plant Fair (IPM) 2020, the company will be presenting IT…

Piet Zwinkels harvests first organic radish from Austrian greenhouse

"My heart is singing, I’m growing radish again"

Cows are walking around with a bell around their neck and the yodeling is unrivalled. But for growing organic radish, they could do with some Dutch help on a plateau in the…

Dutch greenhouses to be erected in Almaty

Kazakhstan has a challenging climate for greenhouse construction. With hot summers and extremely cold winters, the country needs highly divergent technical capabilities. For…

Improving irrigation efficiency through Water-Smart Agriculture

We are in the middle of an unprecedented water crisis: by some counts, water stress now affects a quarter of the world’s population. And with a changing climate, this may only…

Special Trade Shows 2020

New spinach and lettuce seed planter launched at Fruit Logistica

Agricola Italiana's High Precision AI-640-SN seed planter was specially developed to sow lettuce and spinach seeds. It will be shown during this year's Fruit Logistica. They…

High tunnel research increases profits for New York growers

According to the latest Census of Agriculture, there are nearly 8,000 U.S. farms growing tomatoes in protected settings including greenhouses or high tunnels with a total…
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visit to Tomatoworld to learn from the Dutch

Japan to fund millions into modernizing horticulture

On Thursday January 16th, Tomatoworld received the Japanese ambassador Hidehisa Horinouchi together with members of the Japanese House of Councillors and the Ministry of…

Iran, FAO launch joint program to help Afghan refugees

Iran’s Bureau of Aliens and Foreign Immigrants’ Affairs, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and World Food Programme established a greenhouse…

Exhibitor Forum at Fruit Logistica will highlight food production in the Netherlands

At the annual Bayer Exhibitor Forum, experts from across the value chain address developments in the food production of a specific country or region. The…

US (MN): Shipping container to grow leafy greens year-round arrives at CLC

An insulated shipping container outfitted with a complete hydroponic growing system that will provide Minnesotans with fresh, leafy greens year-round reached its destination…

Australia: Bushfire smoke haze results in late tomato season

It is a longer-than-usual wait for tomatoes in the Meander Valley, caused by the recent smoke haze and resulting cooler temperatures. Selbourne farmer Annette Reed of…

US (FL): Strawberry grower faces labor shortage

Gary Wishnatzki and his family-owned berry farm have made a home in Plant City since 1922, growing all kinds of berries year-round. But for the past 20 years, Wish Farms has…

Farewell to the Eu:CROPIS mission

The experimentation phase on board the Eu:CROPIS satellite developed by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) came to an end on 31…

CropX acquires CropMetrics to expand U.S. market presence

CropX, a soil sensing and agricultural analytics company, announced the acquisition of Nebraska-based CropMetrics, a provider of cloud-based, precision-irrigation tools. "We…

Australia: Coral Greenhouse open to divers

The Coral Greenhouse and the Ocean Siren, the first phases of UK diver-sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor’s Museum Of Underwater Art (MOUA) project on Australia’s Great Barrier…

Dutch-Macedonian company to build logistics centre and greenhouse in Serbia

Dutch-Macedonian joint venture Gresto had a groundbreaking ceremony in Ruma, Serbia, marking the beginning of the construction of their logistics centre and a greenhouse.…

The impact of GrowSave

GrowSave, a collaboration between AHDB and NFU Energy, has been around for thirteen years. We look back at the impact we’ve had on the horticulture industry over the last…

Effect of UV radiation and salt stress on secondary metabolites in bell pepper plants

The green biomass of horticultural plants contains valuable secondary metabolites (SM), which can potentially be extracted and sold. When exposed to stress, plants accumulate…

Specialist joins CambridgeHOK to help food processors and producers become ‘truly energy efficient’

Energy specialist Charlotte Penn says she is excited at the prospect of helping businesses reap the ‘significant rewards’ of investing in energy efficient solutions, having…

Plants learn to speak roundworm to say “go away”

Scientists at Cornell University’s Boyce Thompson Institute and UC Davis have found that plants can manipulate the chemical signals of roundworms to keep pests at bay.…

Afghanistan sees 'unprecedented increase' in vegetable crops

The statistic department of Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock of Afghanistan reported that there is a remarkable increase in vegetable crops in 1398.…

AmericanHort HortScholar program now accepting applications

AmericanHort is now accepting applications for the 2020 HortScholar program. Students applying for this program can be enrolled in any horticulture-related program at any…

Non-profit to address growing financial crisis in American farms

Launch of 'American Grown Campaign'

The American Grown Campaign launched at the Southeast Regional Fruit and Vegetable Conference on January 11. The non-profit was created by growers to address the growing…

Xpol sells herbs and vegetable branch to Xfresh

On the 1st of January, Xpol sold their vegetables and herb branch to Xfresh, a new company set up by Marcel Schers and a few new agri business partners. Xpol…

Asaja, COAG and UPA announce new protests across Spain

The Spanish agricultural organizations Asaja, COAG and UPA have released a joint statement announcing a series of demonstrations across Spain. To safeguard the future of…

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