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Colin Chapdelaine, president of BC Hothouse

"Steady, controlled greenhouse expansion in British Columbia"

“Our greenhouse industry covers only 0.1% of the available farmland in British Columbia but produces an enormous amount of vegetables. Roughly 12,000 acres would be needed to…

Webinar on the future of food production

"Cities can produce their own food when space is used in a smart way"

Building a greenhouse is one, but running it successfully in a long term is somewhat more complicated. This is exactly what Dutch horticultural suppliers have experienced in…

company to divide into two business units

DGT by Senmatic returns

This year, Senmatic A/S will separate its sensor business and its horticulture business to improve reactivity to new trends in the two very different markets, says CEO Mads Nychel.…

Queen’s University project feature P.L. Light systems

"New LEDs have greatly improved light uniformity over our crops"

An integrated driver and high efficiencies were two of the top reasons Queen’s University chose to retrofit their research greenhouses with the HortiLED Top 2.0. The Queen’s…

Blue Radix & ecoation create autonomous find & fix solution

"Vision technology provides input to improve grower’s crop strategy further"

Blue Radix, an independent Dutch AI-tech specialist for the international greenhouse industry, and Ecoation Innovative Solutions, a Canadian developer of automated greenhouse…

New varieties with high resistance in pipeline

Additional commercial varieties with intermediate resistance to ToBRFV

Bayer announced today the commercial availability of tomato varieties bred to help growers address the challenges of the tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV). These…

Bosman Van Zaal opens branch in Germany

"Growers in Germany now have access point to horticultural expertise"

Bosman Van Zaal of Aalsmeer, the Netherlands, recently opened a new branch in Geldern (North Rhine-Westphalia), Germany. Thomas Bauer, who last year joined the company as a…

Greenhouse cultivation of exotics in Amsterdam?

Many people of many different cultures call Amsterdam-Zuidoost in the Netherlands home. So, there's a great demand for exotic fruit and vegetables. The…

TSI Italia has created a greenhouse exhibition, digitized and accessible online, from pc and smartphone

Virtual open day to overcome Covid restrictions

To overcome the limitations linked to Covid, TSI Italia has created a remotely accessible showcase. There are over sixty varieties exhibited, each one with one or more videos,…

Spanish greenhouse being rebuilt

The Dutch company, Westlandpeppers, is supplied by several Spanish growers. One of these is hard at work renovating one of its older greenhouses. They've demolished the old…

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Koppert provides greenhouse horticulturists with Horiver® adhesive plates.

Chromotropic traps that catch 400% more thrips

The adhesive traps marketed by Koppert under the Horiver® brand have shown an unbeatable effectiveness in horticultural greenhouses, especially in capturing thrips and…

"We avoid plastic waste, we close the material loop"

The BASF Group's agricultural research station requires plant pots in large quantities every year. With the help of Pöppelmann TEKU, a supplier of plastic products for…

Study on tomato detection model for robotic platform using deep learning

Fruit detection plays a vital role in robotic harvesting platforms. However, natural scene attributes such as illumination variation, branch and leaf occlusion, clusters of…

Study on water quality and farming growth benefits of intelligence aquaponics system

In 2019, the degree of food self-support in Taiwan was 32.08%, which was lower than that in the previous year by 2.4%. Taiwan does not have the ability to control the…

Study on extensive management system to enhance marketable yield of tomato landraces

Landraces are a valuable part of World agricultural heritage, however, the production of them requires compromises from consumers in terms of visual…
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EU: Sustainable farming methods helping farmers earn a fair income

The fruit and vegetable auction in Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium, may look like a space mission control center, but it's actually one of the most major auctions of its kind in…

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Ontario agri-tech innovation program to modernize workplaces

Recognizing the importance of keeping Ontario’s agri-food sector strong through the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Agri-Tech Innovation cost-share…

Phillippe Kahn (Herbafrucht Ltd) on the business takeover and today's herb industry

"For sustainability reasons, we are increasingly trying to avoid air-shipped goods"

For almost 20 years now, Herbafrucht Ltd has been regarded as a specialist trader in fresh cut herbs in the Munich wholesale market hall. On Feb. 1, 2021, company founder and…

"Why did we expand our distribution center?"

Nature Fresh Farms Sales has been growing with the addition of new partners. "Our latest expansion project doubled the size of our Distribution Centerin Leamington, ON to…

Webinar: who's your perfect agtech leader?

Farming has been around for thousands of years, but investments in agricultural technology have exploded over the past five years. With over $130 billion in…

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Researchers call for tools to prevent plant disease pandemics

"Plant diseases don’t stop at a nation’s borders either"

Plant diseases don’t stop at a nation’s borders and miles of oceans don’t prevent their spread, either. That’s why plant disease surveillance, improved plant disease detection…

UK: greenhouse builder appoints experienced construction manager

CambridgeHOK is delighted to announce the appointment of experienced commercial construction manager Steve Swallow. Mr. Swallow joins as General Manager of the construction…

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Healthier school lunch thanks to greenhouse

Three Lakes - Lettuce, peppers, tomatoes, carrots, radishes, pumpkins, cucumbers, basil. The Three Lakes School Greenhouse has just about anything you can imagine growing in…

Central Virginia: Strawberry season has arrived

The strawberry season is in full swing in Central Virginia. Although there aren’t as many pickers as last year, when bored citizens were looking for safe ways…

Grower support visit in Limpopo, South Africa

The first season of AtlasBlue ‘FCM12-045’ blueberries at Fall Creek South Africa are thriving on the producers’ farms. Dane Castle, one of the Grower Support and Sales…

USDA invests over $2.3M for innovative horticultural business research

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) announced today an investment of over $2.3 million as part of the USDA Small…

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Qatar vegetable production growing strongly

The uptrend in the volume of vegetable production in Qatar is expected to continue year-on-year, ensuring a steady supply of fresh produce from local ‘active farms’, a…

Bayer adds to commercial crop science division

Bayer announced that Brett Begemann, Chief Operating Officer, Crop Science, will retire from his role after 38 years with the company. Rodrigo Santos, currently Head of Crop…

Delayed British strawberry season means "larger, juicier’ fruit"

The British strawberry season has finally arrived after the recent unseasonable weather delayed ripening, but consumers have been promised bigger and juicier…

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India: Vegetable farmers in Pollachi hit hard by pandemic

A vegetable farmer at Sultanpet in the Coimbatore district had to dump the harvest last week as there were no buyers. Rakimuthu, another vegetable farmer at Aandipalayam,…

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