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Brent Burky with Sierra Gold Nurseries

“Container nursery helps us respond quicker to changing market demand”

In addition to switching their tree propagating activities from field to containers, US propagator Sierra Gold Nurseries has also been able to shorten the time to grow…

Vacancies:

“South-East Asia has a high demand for Japanese fresh produce”

Although produced in small volumes, Japanese fruits and vegetables have received increasing attention from overseas customers. Nihon-Agri is a professional exporter of a…

Signify expands collaboration with Planet Farms

Signify is expanding its collaboration with Planet Farms, a European operator of vertical farms based in Italy. Thanks to the latest agreement, Europe’s largest vertical farm…

Farmers, nonprofits sue USDA, saying hydroponics can't be organic

Center for Food Safety (CFS), along with a coalition of organic farms and stakeholders, filed a lawsuit challenging the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA's)…

Graines Voltz to acquire HILD Samen business from BASF

Graines Voltz, a French floral and vegetable seeds distributor, signed an agreement with BASF to buy its HILD Samen business in Marbach, Germany. Currently, it is part of the…

Tomatoes are the most popular vegetables with Europeans

A convention entitled "Markets and Opportunities" was held during the first Sicilian edition of Enza Zaden's House Fair. Above and below: tomato display set up by Enza Zaden Hans-Christoph…

"Cliff would have been so pleased"

UK: Suffolk greenhouse tomatoes finding their way to supermarkets

Tomatoes grown in a giant greenhouse complex near Ipswich are now available locally under a new brand name - meaning shoppers will no longer face a search to find them.…

CAN (BC): 100-machine commercial-scale vertical-farming system comes to Surrey

CubicFarms has finalized an agreement for the sale of 100 CubicFarms growing machines, and received a deposit in the amount of C$1.2 million from a commercial grower and…

Tasting a tomato without destroying it

One of the most important properties of a fresh tomato is its taste. But how do you quantify taste? Breeders are very interested in that question. For the answer the taste…

webinar, March 17

Fit roots for plant health

On March 17, 2020 Koppert Biological Systems and Hoogendoorn Growth Management jointly give a webinar about how to facilitate root health and condition to get the best…

Special Climate

Semi-closed greenhouses equipped with night cooling system

Semi-closed greenhouses are no longer only for areas with a temperate climate. For more extreme climates there are also solutions - creative solutions. Three…

Andermatt Iberia subsidiary established in Spain

Andermatt Biocontrol has established a new subsidiary in Barcelona, Spain, called Andermatt Iberia S.L.U. Juan Rodriguez Martin will be joining Andermatt…

Square Roots' Kimbal Musk profiled by CNN

Elon Musk's younger brother, Kimbal Musk, who was named "Global Social Entrepreneur" of the year by the World Economic Forum in 2017, started Square Roots, an indoor urban…

Sahara Forest Project in cooperation with Norwegian wholesaler BAMA

Jordanian high-end vegetables: Spreading to new markets

This week, the Sahara Forest Project (SFP) will launch cooperation with Norwegian wholesaler BAMA to bring cherry tomatoes and sweet potatoes from Aqaba to Norway.…

Australian spotlight on Tomato spotted wilt virus

Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) causes a range of symptoms, depending on the age of plants, weather conditions and nutritional status. Symptoms include yellow mottling of…
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"ChemChina’s Syngenta Group to seek China IPO by mid-2022"

Newly formed agrochemical giant Syngenta Group Co. Ltd. will seek to go public in China by mid-2022, in a move which could broaden its access to financing and…

ADB to help modernize vegetable production, irrigation in Mongolia

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved $40 million in loans to support the modernization of government-owned irrigation networks and vegetable production in Mongolia.…

South Africa: How aquaponics benefits children and the community

In his State of the Nation Address in February 2019, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced government’s plan to introduce six new subjects in schools’ curricula. One of these is…

US: Minimum hourly agricultural wage rates highest in Washington and Oregon

The H-2A Temporary Agricultural Program provides a legal means to bring in foreign-born workers into the United States on a short-term basis. Workers employed on an H-2A visa…

Ukraine increased agro-food export to Turkey by 71%

According to the results of 2019, Ukraine became the second largest supplier of agro-food products to Turkey and occupied 11% in terms of the structure of…

How pest management strategies affect the bottom line

The economics of pest control

A study out of Mississippi State University evaluated the impact insect pest management strategies have on the economic return of small-scale tomato production. The results of…

US (IN): Urban Agriculture certificate now offered online

The College of Agriculture’s Urban Agriculture team is launching the online Urban Agriculture Certificate in partnership with Purdue Online, to be offered 100% online.…

US (MI): Governor Whitmer proclaims March as Michigan Food and Ag Month

Governor Gretchen Whitmer has proclaimed March as Michigan Food and Agriculture Month, to honor and celebrate Michigan’s farmers, the diversity of products…

US (PA): Hope Street Learning Lab opening aquaponics classroom

Hope Street Learning Lab will be opening a community aquaponics classroom this summer, following plans announced in November to install a hydroponics lab. "We are super…

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This is fantastic and a great use of automation technology 😎#IntelliDose #IntelliClimate #agtech #education #FutureofFood https://t.co/q9UO4ktQ8D — Autogrow (@autogrow) March…

Japanese chef hand-carves intricate patterns into fruit and vegetables

Japanese chef and food artist Takehiro Kishimoto is still a master when transforming everyday fruit and vegetables into edible masterpieces. Image: Takehiro Kishimoto  The instagrammer,…

UK survey shows slight rise in concern about British food safety

The concern of consumers about food safety in the United Kingdom has gone up based on results of a survey by the Food Standards Agency (FSA). Findings from late last year show that 45…

Worldwide Fruit on adopting the PakStation

“Packing operatives couldn’t keep up with the pace and it became quite a bottleneck"

International fruit marketing and distribution company Worldwide Fruit, supplier of quality fruit products to UK supermarkets, has boosted its capacity to load flow wrapped…

Argentina: Region of Patagonia interested in Russian tech for vegetable cultivation

The Argentinian province of Tierra del Fuego in Patagonia, the coldest region in the country, is interested in Russian technologies for the cultivation of vegetables. The head…

The Netherlands produces 8.5 times more cucumbers per square meter than Spain

According to data from Faostat, the statistical agency of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the global cucumber production in 2018 amounted to…

Spain

Prison for a propagator in Huelva for selling blueberry varieties without a license

A court in the Spanish province of Huelva has convicted a propagator for a crime against industrial property. The man multiplied the blueberry varieties…

Spanish scientists develop new eggplants resistant to climate change

In the framework of the EggpreBreed-II project, the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) is developing new eggplant seeds with improved resistance to extreme dry weather…

Producers fear unsaleable products

Swiss vegetable growers on alert for tomato virus

A tomato virus has appeared in the French production area of Brittany. It is spreading rapidly and is rapidly approaching Switzerland. The disease causes a…

Austrian agri sector wants to contribute to climate protection with less imported vegetables

"We'll see how we can extend the season for the growers"

Günter Achleitner is harvesting kale. Lettuce, leeks and spinach also grow in variations and organically on his fields around Eferding. The farmer is one of…

Development of urban greenhouses in Belgium

In Brussels, fish and vegetables go hand in hand. BIGH (Building Integrated Greenhouses), the largest urban product farm in Europe since 2015. With a surface…

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