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“We’re sharing our geothermal energy source with the local spa”

“We’re sharing our geothermal energy source with the local spa,” says Wolfgang Steiner with Steiner Gemüsebau. In their new greenhouse complex, built in collaboration with…

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Australia: Flavorite sells and leases greenhouse to enable further growth

One of the Australian Flavorite greenhouses is changing owners. In two phases, their Victoria greenhouse is acquired by private equity firm Roc Partners, while Flavorite…

Shenandoah Growers changes name to Soli Organic and announces $120 million funding

Soli Organic, formerly known as Shenandoah Growers, a soil-based, controlled environment agriculture company, announced a $120 million financing arrangement…

"Poland offers an export opportunity for Sicilian tomatoes"

In 2019, there were 2,102 hectares of greenhouses in Poland, producing 677 thousand tons of crops. Greenhouse tomatoes are grown all year around - half of them (1,037…

Researchers develop new robot pollinator to assist in greenhouse

The shortage of natural pollinators, such as bees, is threatening global food production around the world. Researchers at West Virginia University have come up with a plan B…

Tomato grower uses smart sensors as tool for optimizing crop strategies

Dutch tomato grower Koos van der Burg has been around for a while. He was already paying visits to the regional Horticultural Research Station back in the days when, "after…

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Solar greenhouses lengthen growing season in Pakistan's mountains

The people of the Baroghil area in Pakistan have started growing different varieties of vegetables and cereals with the help of passive solar greenhouses. Amin Jan Tajik said…

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Greenhouse complex in Belgium gets new function as 'agro-incubator'

A greenhouse complex that used to belong to BASF has changed owners. The complex is now owned by VIB, with ILVO as a strategic partner, and with financial support from the…

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Dutch aquaponics grower moving up after successful start

In March this year, a floor of a factory in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, was transformed into a farm where they grow lettuce in water which has fish manure added. Things are…

Italian tomato prices have skyrocketed

Cesena wholesaler Massimo Castrogiovanni confirms that the plant diseases and low prices of the past few years caused a drastic drop in cultivated areas, meaning current…

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Canopy photosynthesis using one- and three-dimensional light models on greenhouse cucumber canopies

One-dimensional light models using the Beer-Lambert equation (BL) with the light extinction coefficient k are simple and robust tools for estimating light interception of…

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UK feed from food waste firm wins funding

Feed from food waste firm Inspro has won a £14.5 million fund designed to help farming practices evolve to be more efficient and help meet the UK’s net-zero goals. Inspro,…

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'Ugly' fruits and vegetables find patrons

Pro-environment consumers and suppliers are patronizing ‘ugly’ agricultural products that do not fit ‘market standards’ to counter the practice of discarding them. Most of the…
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Would you eat a salad grown with toilet water?

Israel is a leader in the use of reclaimed water for agriculture. With investments of more than $700 million over the past 20 years, wastewater reclamation has provided Israel…

Video Hydroponic lettuce for pizzerias

As you might have read earlier this month, Pure Green Farms is now supplying its hydroponically grown baby greens to 66 LaRosa pizzerias. The restaurants serve many salads to…

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November 16

Bulgarian horti sector offers opportunities for Dutch business

On 16 November, join the exclusive webinar organized by the Netherlands Agricultural Office in Bulgaria in cooperation with the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RvO). With 5…

Video Providing every school with an aquaponics greenhouse

Viridis Aquaponics have the aim to put an aquaponics greenhouse in every school in the US. In the video below, they show their own, big greenhouse, where they receive students…

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November 11 and 18

Ciopora organizes two plant breeding webinars

The 2nd edition of the CIOPORA Breeding Academy is back with two webinars in November. On November 11, learn from Dr. Robert Boehm (Head of Molecular Breeding at Klemm + Sohn…

US lettuce grower appoints new chief technology officer

Revol Greens is adding Mohammed Oufattole, MBA, as Chief Technology Officer. The ag-tech executive brings over 20 years of experience in life sciences and agricultural…

LEAF sets new tar­get that will see 85% of all UK fruit and veg­eta­bles grown more sustainably

LEAF (Linking Environment And Farming) has set a new target for 85% of all UK fruit and vegetables to be grown more sustainably. The target will see the amount…

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Building an ecosystem at Bouldin Food Forest

In 2015, Ben McConnell planted a forest in his front yard in Bouldin Creek. "It was probably close to 30 different trees that I planted, smaller trees, all sorts of fruit…

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Egypt: implementing integrated management for controlling Tuta absoluta

Two field experiments were implemented at two districts in Egypt; the first one was conducted in the spring season, at Dahshour district, Giza Governorate, Egypt, in which…

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Report: Opportunties for greenhouse production in tropics

Kerala Agricultural University and Indian Society of Vegetable Science jointly organized a National level Web Conference on “Challenges and opportunities in vegetable…

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2022 Hydroponic Tomato Intensive Workshop

Join the University of Arizona Controlled Environment Agriculture Center for the Hydroponic Tomato Online Intensive Workshop (online and on-site). This three-day workshop is…

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Tesco to launch PET ‘tray to tray’ recycling initiative with Faerch

Supermarket chain Tesco and sustainable packaging solutions company Faerch have collaborated on what they claim is an industry first, closed-loop recycling solution that…

High temperatures are in the past: cold sealing is here

Most packages are sealed under high temperatures. However, there is now a new, not so hot way of enclosing the produce: cold sealing. At the Fruit Attractión 2021, Juan José…

Participation in Fruit Attraction 2021 exceeds expectations

The 13th edition of Fruit Attraction saw the participation of 65,000 professionals from 110 countries. Although almost 90,000 people had attended the latest on-site edition,…

Single-use plastic products banned in Slovakia

In Slovakia, an amendment of the Act No. 79/2015 Coll came into force on July 3, 2021, prohibiting companies from placing certain single-use plastic products…

Primaflor growing with 100% renewable energy

Primaflor, the Almeria-based fruit and vegetable company, has achieved a new milestone after implementing the use of renewable energy in its various production…

BLE market report week 42/2021:

'Spanish deliveries increased, presence of Belgian peppers decreased'

Spanish deliveries increased, forming the basis of the bell pepper assortment. The previously dominant Dutch lots lost importance and were no longer consistently convincing in…

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