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Reversed osmosis in combination with Artificial Intelligence

Partially because of the current issue of water scarcity, the sustainability discussion, and the legislation in the field of groundwater, the Van der Ende Groep has developed…

GreenTech

GreenTech programme focuses on 'biggest challenges of all time'

In one week GreenTech will open its doors to the virtual platform. The concept of the programme, on 20, 21 and 22 October, is ‘Follow the sun’ to reach out to the global…

Steven van Looveren sees a decline in the demand for diffuse glass

"Light transmission of glass becomes more and more important”

The characteristics of the glass are important. Steven Adriaense, Van Looveren explains: “The light transmission is vital. That’s what it is all about now. The requirements…

A conversation with Pfalzmarkt board members Reinhard Oerther and Hans-Jörg Friedrich

"By providing year-round supply, we want to establish ourselves even stronger as a reliable trade partner"

It was an interesting year in the German fruit and vegetable sector. Good communications between producers, cooperatives and the trade were more important than ever. This is…

Roelands Plant Farms at the Grodan Seminar

Concrete floors versus tables

At the recent Grodan seminar, the second speaker was Roelands Plant from Ontario, a large propagator. The first speaker was Marta Streminski, and the third and last one was…

Juan González Pita of Salix Fruits:

“Connecting digitally with our colleagues is our bread and butter”

For Atlanta-based Salix Fruits, PMA Fresh Summit will be the first virtual trade show they participate in. Despite this, the company feels confident that their participation…

Cathy Burns' State of the Industry

“Don’t wait for the new normal, let’s create a new extraordinary”

On Tuesday October 13th, the very first virtual edition of the PMA Fresh Summit kicked off. While the setting and circumstances surrounding this year’s Fresh Summit are…

AU: Geraldton's wax flower blossoms into native food, with 'unique Australian flavours'

A growing appetite for uniquely Australian cuisine has led to a popular native flower being developed into a food flavouring. If breeders have their way, bunches of edible…

New compostable cucumber wrap to be highlighted at Fresh Summit

PMA's virtual Fresh Summit has kicked off over the past few weeks, many companies made the decision to exhibit at the event. For Nature Fresh Farms, there was no question…

Proposal would add three new product categories to the DLC Horticultural Lighting Program effective July 1, 2021

DesignLights Consortium seeks comments on draft updates to horticultural lighting technical requirements

In response to member and stakeholder input, the DesignLights Consortium (DLC) released draft Technical Requirements for LED-based Horticultural Lighting:…

Special Management

Kalera

Kalera announces two new VPs of sales focused on foodservice and retail accounts

Kalera has hired two new executives to fill the positions of Vice President of Foodservice Sales and Vice President of Sales for Retail Accounts. The newly appointed VP of…

Russia: Greenhouse arises in permafrost region

A leading Russian metal construction producer, Agrisovgas company, takes part in constructing a unique greenhouse complex in the permafrost region, in Anadyr. Greenhouses by…

Rolls-Royce

Rolls-Royce expands Power Systems business unit

Rolls-Royce has announced a $13.9m investment in its Power Systems business unit for the addition of a new research and development building and multi-phase expansion of its…

Powerplants

New Zealand: Powerplants announces new partnership with Advanced Hort

Powerplants has recently joined forces with Advanced Hort to help service the New Zealand Horticulture Industry. Nathan Hewson, the Managing Director has spent the last 12…

CAN (ON): Fruit and vegetable growers welcome additional cost-share funding for farm workers protection

Ontario’s fruit and vegetable growers are pleased with the joint federal-provincial government funding announcement of an additional $11.6 million to further…

Agronomy

Promising composts as growing media for the production of baby leaf lettuce in a floating system

The floating system is a successful strategy for producing baby leaf vegetables. Moreover, compost from agricultural and agri-food industry wastes is an alternative to peat…
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First draft genome resource for the tomato black leaf mold pathogen Pseudocercospora fuligena

Pseudocercospora fuligena is a fungus that causes black leaf mold, an important disease of tomato in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Despite its…

London Design Festival

Tiny greenhouse shows effects of climate change

If you remember the movie Interstellar, you will recall that all the food on their dining table was made from corn – cornbread, corn side dish, whole corn kernels, etc. Why?…

Virginia Tech

Uneven agricultural productivity growth raises concerns in a time of pandemics

The 2020 Global Agricultural Productivity Report (GAP Report) — “Productivity in a Time of Pandemics” — released by the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences…

Agronomy

Growth, yield and quality of sweet pepper fruits fertilized with polyphosphates

The aim of a new study was to investigate the effect of phosphorus application in the form of polyphosphates on the yield and quality of sweet pepper fruits grown with LED…

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CRISPR and our food supply: What’s next in feeding the world?

The latest adventure in food enhancement is CRISPR (e.g., clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/Cas9) gene-editing technology. It potentially has many…

Rise Gardens

Amazon Alexa Fund invests in vertical farming system for consumers

Chicago-based Rise Gardens, maker of in-home, smart hydroponic garden systems, has received an investment from the Amazon Alexa Fund. Building upon a $2.6M seed round that…

Mayor Laura White-Brown

US (KY): AppHarvest launches container farm at high school

The newest classroom at Rowan County Senior High has big aspirations and it starts inside a shipping container. AppHarvest presented Rowan County students with one of the…

Jersey Fresh

New Jersey Department of Agriculture recognizes farmers in Farm to School program

New Jersey Secretary of Agriculture Douglas Fisher recognized Drop the Beet Farms in Monmouth County as the 2020 winning farm for the Jersey Fresh Farm to School Farmer…

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Garry Sandercock - Propak Industries

Automatic systems which can reduce labour and plastic

Increasing automation while reducing plastic usage is a very valuable service and if you can do this while also increasing the use of recyclable materials then its a definite…

French European Affairs minister Clement Beaune:

“Brexit deal needs to be done by start of November”

Last weekend, France’s European affairs minister Clement Beaune stated that the European Union and Britain must reach an agreement on their post-Brexit ties by…

Canadian Research Institute for Food Safety - University of Guelph

Canadian officials tell California growers to test their lettuce for E. coli

Extensive federal import restrictions on romaine lettuce and salad mixes from California’s Salinas Valley are an indication of problems in the U.S.…

Serroplast

Covers for small fruit cultivation

In a global scenario where the supply of fruit of various origin is high and where there is demand for healthy produce, there is the need to employ new cultivation…

Alphabet

‘Mineral’ project addresses sustainable food production

Alphabet’s latest X project: A crop-sniffing plant buggy

Former Google division Alphabet X lab has presented a computational agriculture project called ‘Mineral’. This project focuses on sustainable food production and farming at…

Canada invests in cold storage and packing facilities

'Vegetable cold storage facilities will grow food self-sufficiency'

The Honourable Elvis Loveless, Minister of Fisheries, Forestry and Agriculture, announced a $1.25-million investment to help establish vegetable cold storage…

NZ: Courgette prices fall back to earth

Courgette prices were down 58 percent in September 2020 as the growing season resumed and more local produce arrived back on the shelves, Stats NZ said today.…

UK and Ukraine sign post-Brexit free trade deal

On October 8, the UK and Ukraine have signed a Political, Free Trade and Strategic Partnership Agreement. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson hailed the agreement as proof that…

Terphane

Sustainable line of PET films to be showcased at Fresh Summit

Fresh produce consumers are looking for natural, healthy, and convenient products. As packaging gains more relevance in the produce category, Terphane, a producer of specialty…

North American vegetable producer to showcase new products at Fresh Summit

Grimmway Farms, carrot producer and organic vegetable producer, is exhibiting new products and sustainable packaging initiatives this week at the first-ever virtual Produce…

USDA clarifies that firm is able to operate in the produce industry

The U.S. Department of Agriculture previously listed Suncrest Produce Solutions as being currently restricted from operating in the produce industry. This is a…

Almeria, Spain

Organic chili pepper takes root in the Cabo de Gata Natural Park

Naturchac, a company from Almeria located in the heart of the Cabo de Gata-Níjar Park, has incorporated a new product to its catalog of organic products:…

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