If you cannot read this newsletter, click here to view it in your browser.
Hortidaily.com
Thursday, February 20, 2020
Any News?

If you want to share your company news with the entire horticulture industry, please send us a press release or contact our editorial staff. We will publish your news free of charge.

Arlette
Arlette Sijmonsma
Email

Annet
Annet Breure
Email

Elita
Elita Vellekoop
Email

Jan Jacob
Jan Jacob Mekes
Email

 Job Offers
Cultivation specialist Floriculture
Technical Sales Specialist - Canada
Crop Supervisor - Australia
Senior Business development- / Sales Manager - The Netherlands
Global VP of Sales & Marketing
Product Manager - Europe
Product Manager, Horticulture - De Lier, the Netherlands
Chief Executive Officer - Tropical North Queensland (Tully) Australia
Head Grower in USA
Commercial Manager | Cut Flowers - Kenya

Azerbaijan tomato growers add blueberries to assortment

There's much talked about the opportunities in the Azerbaijan industry - but what's it like trying to take these opportunities? Back in 2012 the Azerbaijan company WeGrow…

Erik Buijsman, Buysman Kruiden in the Netherlands:

Vertical farming - new? "We've been growing chives like this for 30 years"

Is vertical farming something new? "Well, no. We have been growing chives this way for 30 years already," laughs Erik Buijsman of Buysman Kruiden from Andijk, the Netherlands.…

Jack Crienen:

"We can optimize high-wire cultivation in order to work more efficiently and increase production"

This year, it’s twenty years since BASF Vegetable Seeds started breeding high-wire cucumbers. A key player in this development was cucumber grower Jack Crienen (53), from…

Illumitex terminates LED lighting operations, shifts focus to AI

Illumitex terminates its LED lighting operations, aiming to become a pure AgTech computer-vision AI company that deploys edge vision systems, edge AI, and cloud services to…

Gearbox Innovations delivers ‘Digital Quality Inspector’ to Looye Kwekers

"With vision & AI as a starting point, our product line is growing"

The term 'digital quality inspector' has become widely known in the fresh produce sector since its introduction. GearVision, as the machine developed by Gearbox Innovations is…

Ontario fruit and vegetable growers re-elect board chair

Grape grower Bill George Jr. will serve a second one-year term as Chair of the Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers’ Association (OFVGA). He first became Chair in 2019 and was…

Horticulture stars in Guggenheim Museum

The exposition Countryside, The Future opens at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York on February 20, 2020. By organizing this exposition, Rem Koolhaas’ think tank AMO…

Dutch schools combine forces in the All Climate Greenhouse

Recently, the final presentation of the first education project in the All Climate Greenhouse took place. Graduating students from Horti Technics & Management of Lentiz, MBO…

Spanish growers plan new protests

The agricultural organizations Asaja, COAG and UPA have described the protests of recent days as a "resounding success", with about 35,000 people taking part in the…

Automated drip irrigation scheduling for maximizing water use efficiency

Maximizing irrigation water use efficiency and utilization of solar energy with drip irrigation systems is essential to irrigate greenhouses for horticultural crops…

Special Trade Shows 2020

Final day for Dutch greenhouse show HortiContact

HortiContact is still in full swing, but is coming to an end today. It took off last Tuesday and yesterday has been the busiest day so far. The show is popular amongst Dutch…

First harvest started in geothermal greenhouse in Kirsehir, Turkey

The geothermal greenhouse which was built in the Karakurt district of Kirsehir (Turkey) with the support of the local university is now fully operational and the first harvest…

Excluding small island countries

Top 10 most obese countries

The Middle Eastern predominance was quite a surprise.

Growers worry that Florida Bill will exacerbate labor scarcity problems

Paul J. DiMare, one of the country's leading producers of fresh tomatoes, is among a group of businessmen trying to stifle a Florida bill that would require private companies…
fd

Dead or alive

A non-destructive method for determining and predicting seed viability

Monitoring the viability of seeds is of paramount importance to plant breeders, traders, farmers, researchers and seed bank managers. The globally recognized standard method…

US (NJ): Camden County continues to grow during the new year

Despite a lack of snow across South Jersey this winter season, the cold weather and frigid temperatures still prevent the flourishing of plants, crops and other growth in…

"Our goal is to demonstrate that aquaponics can be very useful in Africa"

A growing number of people in Cameroon are using an innovative method to integrate fish farming and plant cultivation. The novel initiative called aquaponics has been…

The cucumber: Not so simple

The period in a country when there is little news (often the period when its government is on holiday) is called the “silly season” and in many countries this time period…

Turkish tomatoes at Russian border: 5,000 tons could rot away

Hundreds of trucks, loaded with some 5,000 tons of tomatoes from Turkey, have been stranded for over a week in the buffer zone between Russia and Ukraine,…

864 people responding to the question: Which stage of a banana's ripening is best?

Classic question.

Young Ghanaians use tech for more efficient greenhouses

Four young Ghanaians armed with technological insight and passion, are making it their mission to revolutionise agriculture in their country. The group, that met in 2018…

"This ain’t your grandfather’s lettuce"

The vegetable farming of the future look very different from the fields of lettuce and other crops you’ll find in places like California’s Salinas Valley today, according to…

"Vertical farming is all the rage, but the downsides will limit its potential"

Vertical farming is all the rage. It makes great click-bait by combining key buzz words: 'technology' in the form of new LED lighting; 'novelty' food that some celebrity chef…

Today on social media

@PureFlavor

Pure Flavor®

Nothing can beat that #sweet @GeorgiaGrown hand-picked #flavor. Picked in Peach County, GA and shipped #daily to grocery stores near you. Be sure to look at the sticker, it…

Food Freshly presents solutions for shelf life extension

Fresh-cut: Rising demand for innovative products

This year FOOD freshly will again present new solutions for the fresh-cut sector that will make a difference. The Bielefeld-based company develops antioxidants that will…

Rangpur division, Bangladesh

Farmers Gaibandha district see boost in chilli production

Many of the farmers in Bangladesh’s Gaibandha district have become self-reliant economically, applying modern and systematic cultivation methods on their barren char lands.…

Light-colored mini-zucchini from Calabria reach Northern Europe

Light-colored flowerless mini-zucchini are a niche product, less known that their darker and longer cousin. In Calabria, they are grown in five hectares of greenhouses and…

DoekenDraad.nl and Screen4seasons to collaborate

"The profession is way too enjoyable"

The screening companies DoekenDraad.nl and Screen4seasons from the Westland are going to collaborate. The ‘old-timers’ in the business, Cees van der Kaaij from DoekenDraad.nl…

Serwo Packaging with new packaging alternative at the Fruit Logistica:

"All the advantages of wood pulp trays with the processability of PET"

The search for sustainable packaging alternatives for the German market will not go away. Some major supermarket chains have already changed their programmes several times to…

Spain

Murcia loses 144,000 hectares devoted to agriculture in the last decade

In the last decade, ​​the Region of Murcia's agricultural acreage has been reduced by 144,000 hectares, which at the time were used for rainfed crops, but…

Mixed reactions to new minimum wage for farmworkers in South Africa

Two of South Africa’s national agricultural organisations have expressed opposing views on the new national minimum wage, that is  due to come into effect on 1 March.…

2019 US vegetable production down 3 percent from 2018

In 2019, US  production for the 26 estimated vegetable and melon crops totaled 739 million cwt, 3 percent below 2018 for comparable crops and States. Area harvested in 2019 was…

Something is causing a rise in value chain costs

Increasingly tight margins for large fruit and vegetable companies

For a number of years, the agrarian organizations have been denouncing that agricultural producers are the weakest link in the chain, sometimes failing to even cover their…

Funny

Time for coffee!



Unsubscribe

Copyright (C) 2020 Hortidaily.