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Ask for the Light Degradation When You Consider Investing in LEDs

January 2025

Due to the rising popularity of LED lighting systems, driven by the high energy costs, the search for sustainability, and further boosted by incentives and rebate programs, the market for fixture suppliers and LED component suppliers has expanded rapidly.

Water Quality and Hygiene can be Managed

January 2025

Water quality and water management are very important in the horticulture industry, that's clear. During the Erfgoed WaterEvent, these were hot topics.

Speaking the Language of Plants in Automation

January 2025

Certhon's core mission is simple yet ambitious: "Growing anything, anywhere. For everyone." Specializing in the development of high-tech greenhouses and systems, they are committed to creating solutions that enable the production of fresh, sustainable food anywhere in the world.

A Look at How AI is Rewriting Crop Genetics

December 2024

The first farmers wrote their stories in seeds, selecting and saving the strongest, the sweetest, and the most abundant. Ten thousand years later, in laboratories across the globe, we're still writing agricultural stories – but now our ink is algorithms, and our paper is the double helix of DNA itself.

Norway: No-venting in greenhouse pushes tomato yield to 160kg per m2

December 2024

"At NIBIO, we don't use natural gas to heat anymore so we do not benefit from waste carbon dioxide. With DAC technology, we capture carbon dioxide from outside and put it in the greenhouse. While using hydroelectric energy, allows us to be a zero-emission system," says Michel Verheul, Senior Research Scientist at NIBIO in Særheim, Norway.

Trellised Mini-Melons Thrive in Limpopo Greenhouse

December 2024

Francois Fourie believes in precision agriculture: he applies the principles himself in growing vegetables (and this season fruit too) while his company Turf Technology & Irrigation (TT-i) sets up irrigation and fertigation systems across South Africa.

Why pH Matters in Aquaponics

November 2024

The ideal range for pH in an aquaponic system is between 6.5 and 7.0. But why? In an aquaponic system, there are three distinctly different living inhabitants…the fish, the plants, and the beneficial bacteria. Therefore, it is important, we pay attention to the specific needs of each living part.

A Succulent with an Olympic Flavour

November 2024

It is a real sports summer this year with the European Football Championship, the Tour de France and soon the Olympic Games. The latter mega sporting event gave Amigo Plant an idea. With the help of some water-based paint, an Echeveria Miranda coloured Olympia was realised, which is also for sale via Floriday.

Is There a Difference Between Roof Vegetables and Garden Vegetables?

November 2024

In the Roof 2 Fork project, researchers at the Institute of Horticulture in Pūre are growing vegetables in a rural setting. In Rīga, the same plants are being grown on the roof of the Institute of Agricultural Resources and Economics.

Use of Fertilisers in EU Agriculture Down 10% in 2022

October 2024

In 2022, the quantity of mineral fertilisers (nitrogen and phosphorus) used in agricultural production across the EU was 9.8 million tonnes. This represented a sharp decline of 10.3% compared with the quantity used in 2021, and a cumulative decline of 15.9% from the relative peak in 2017.

Upscaling Hydroponics in India

October 2024

Vardan Agrotech has been in hydroponics and controlled environment agriculture for over five years. For them, to develop a hydroponic facility that is sustainable in India, it is important to integrate traditional know-how with the latest technology and automation developments. "Leveraging our research and development background, we've refined our growing techniques and nutrient solutions by integrating technology with traditional practices. This approach ensures the production of high-quality, chemical residue-free crops," Madhav Gupta, operational general manager at Vardan Agrotech states.

TikTok Video Craze Continues to Affect Global Cucumber Markets

October 2024

The trend in many countries at this time is that cucumber prices are trending higher. A recent TikTok video craze has also led to higher consumption in the Netherlands and Iceland as people seek to emulate these online trends. In Spain's Almería, an improvement in availability of cucumber volumes is expected. In Italy, cucumbers have high prices with even higher demand. Cucumber prices have been very high for several weeks due to the weather that has slowed down production. In Germany, prices have increased too.

Saudi Arabia: Vegetable and Rose Projects to be Realized in the Makkah Region

September 2024

The Ministry of Environment, Water, and Agriculture announced on Monday the launch of four new investment opportunities aimed at establishing integrated agricultural cities in the Makkah region. These projects include vegetable and crop production, fruit tree cultivation, and the creation of a specialized laboratory for growing wild seedlings.

Former Grower Runs Zoo Among Greenhouses

September 2024

What are you doing after retiring? Former grower Jan Knoppert started his own zoo - or at least, he upgraded his backyard to resemble one. Hidden away in the outskirts of 's-Gravenzande, Netherlands, is a zoo with animals that do not even roam around Blijdorp, Omroep West discovered.

Greenhouses Back In The Picture as Coffee Crisis Looms

September 2024

"You're the third this morning," said Filip van Noort of Wageningen University & Research on Wednesday morning, answering the phone. He can guess what the question is: What is the state of greenhouse coffee cultivation?

Air Pollution Harms Pollinators More Than Pests, Study Finds

August 2024

Bees and other beneficial bugs are disproportionately harmed by air pollution compared to crop-destroying pests, a new study published in Nature Communications has found.

Dangerous Heat Threats to Greenhouse Workers

August 2024

Many farms, from vertical farming startups to traditional specialty crop growers, are marketing greenhouses as a way to shelter crops from climate extremes. But overlooked are the experiences of workers inside, who may swelter under high heat and humidity, reports Toronto City News.

Hyundai Opens Vertical Farm and 3-star Restaurant in Its Innovation Center

August 2024

In a collaboration between three Michelin-star Chef Corey Lee and Hyundai Motor Group Innovation Center Singapore (HMGICS), Na Oh, a new restaurant concept, is set to add a unique offering to the culinary landscape in Singapore.

Global Market Overview: Raspberries

July 2024

Raspberry growing and supply is increasing across many countries in the Northern Hemisphere to meet the usual summer demand. Germany has seen an early start to their season. The prospects in terms of yield and quality are quite good, but prices vary greatly from region to region.

"Hydroponics is our main business"

July 2024

Offering one herb - basil - year-round, locally cultivated. The goal, however, is to ramp it up to four herbs by 2028, and Niek Monden of De Kruidenaer in the Netherlands has a good reason for this ambitious plan. "Dutch consumers seem to increasingly prefer locally grown products over imports. We're still exploring the options for fulfilling this. But we're determined to succeed."

Growing Greenhouse Veggies with A Side of Solar Power

July 2024

In the search for sustainable cultivation systems, many have been looking at agrivoltaics providing a dual use of agricultural land for agriculture and renewable energy production. However, the main hurdle of this tech is getting the balance between electricity and crop production right. This prompted the establishment of the REGACE project, funded by Horizon Europe, which aims to investigate the combination of the TriSolar tracking system with CO2 enrichment.

Producing 60 million Ready-To-Grow Young Plants In 45-Acre Greenhouses

June 2024

Ontario Plants Propagation was founded in 2002 along this seemingly desolate stretch of natural splendor. As a family business with immigrant roots and generational wisdom, the passion for nurturing premium starter plants from seeds was pursued on a humble 7-acre plot of land just outside the town of St. Thomas. Today, the operation comprises 45 acres of high-tech greenhouse facilities that produce more than 60 million "ready-to-grow" young plants from seed each year. Approximately 40% of all greenhouses in North America get their starter plants from Ontario Plants Propagation.

A Fully Automated Cherry Truss Tomato Harvesting Robot to Hit the Market

June 2024

Artemy is the brand-new harvest robot developed jointly by DENSO Corporation and Certhon, and it is ready for the commercial market. The robot is equipped with advanced vision technology for scanning the crop by its maturity and harvests ripe truss tomatoes. Artemy has an automatic lane change function, utilizing the sensor and image recognition technology to recognize running lanes so it can move to the adjacent one, even in trackless environments. In addition, Artemy has several other functions, such as automatic replacement and transfer of crates, which reduce heavy work for farmers.

Whose Cucumber is the Longest in The World?

June 2024

Cucumber is one of the most popular vegetables in the world. Thus, growers often like to brag to their colleagues about the size of their cucumbers, often exaggerating by a lot. In this regard, the EastFruit team decided to do all the cucumbers and based only on true and well-documented facts, create a rating of the largest cucumbers ever grown by people. However, when compiling a rating of the largest cucumbers, we encountered an unexpected but not an unusual dilemma – what is more important: the length of the cucumber or its thickness?

No need for an irrigation schedule as plants take the reins in new system

20 September 2023

Imagine an irrigation system that puts the power in the hands of nature herself. With the unveiling of Ecotube Gravitation Irrigation (EGI) the team with ecotube Germany says to have taken a massive step in this direction.

If you can apply hydroponics broadly in tomatoes, why wouldn’t you do it in cotton?

20 September 2023

Is it a pepper plant? A new type of cannabis? A strange tomato? Nope, it isn't. It's cotton that's growing in this Spanish greenhouse.

Toyota grows strawberries and cherry tomatoes at its production plants

20 September 2023

The photo in this article shows cherry tomatoes in cultivation. This scene comes not from a farm but from one of Toyota’s production plants. At another plant, the strawberry harvest is in full swing.

Malta: Aquaponic farming without significant operating costs

7 August 2023

“We first started by growing anything that would easily allow us to enter the market and are now replacing these crops with others that are in higher demand. These are all accessible in vegetable boxes sent directly to clients,” explains Pierre Axiaq, Farmer and owner of Tal-Kampanjol Aquaponics Farm in Malta.

Hydroponics project kicks off Ays Proje’s Mexico venture

7 August 2023

Ays Proje, a subsidiary of Aytekin Group with a focus on greenhouse projects, has started out on a new venture, entering the Mexican market under the brand name Ayt Mexico. The company recently signed an agreement for their first project in Mexico, a 2-hectare hydroponic greenhouse project that will be built this year in Guzman, Jalisco.

Huge greenhouse and open field complex coming online in India

7 August 2023

A new huge project consisting of a combination of open fields and greenhouses is coming online in Bhilwara, Rajasthan, India. “We are building a 200-acre precision farm,” says Meet Patel, founder of Rise Hydroponics. “Eventually, the whole thing will be of one thousand acres. The first phase is 200 acres and is going to be completed in a couple of months.”

Magnesium deficiency in tomatoes

18 July 2023

How can growers prevent nutrient deficiencies in crops? Soil testing and tissue testing for fertility management of vegetable crops is key to having the correct levels of nutrients to have a high yielding, high quality crop to harvest and market. Soil testing is best done in fall so that pH levels can be adjusted with soil amendments like lime that correct pH levels for maximum return on fertilizer uptake. Why adjust pH to proper levels? Plant nutrients are hindered in availability when soil pH is either too high to too low. Besides pH, fertility levels are important to monitor and adjust pre-plant for the best start to new seedlings and transplants.

New greenhouse multifan: reduced noise levels and improved energy efficiency

18 July 2023

Greenhouse growers have long relied on Multifan Greenhouse Fans for their durability, easy installation, and exceptional longevity. Now, the new generation of fans brings even more advantages specifically tailored to the needs of greenhouse growers. These fans boast reduced noise levels and improved energy efficiency, making them an ideal choice for any greenhouse environment. In fact, the Multifan Greenhouse Fan is one of the most energy-efficient horizontal circulation fans available worldwide.

Robot developer Honest AgTech declared bankrupt, relaunch being investigated

18 July 2023

Dutch robot developer Honest AgTech B.V. has been declared bankrupt. On June 27, the Noord-Holland District Court declared bankruptcy on the Delft-based company. The robot developer, known for a highly autonomous driving horticultural robot, filed for bankruptcy itself. There was a liquidity shortage. A relaunch is currently being investigated.

Indoor Farming Gets A Place In Greenhouse Farming LiveTrends Design Group Unveils Valentine's Day 2024 Collection

12 June 2023

LiveTrends Design Group Europe is excited to launch its Valentine's Day 2024 collection. "Drawing inspiration from the captivating beauty, artistry, and meticulous attention to detail demonstrated by pastry chefs and creatives, this collection presents a breathtaking fusion of romance and imagination."

German Grower Reduces Moisture In Slabs With Spacer

12 June 2023

In 2020, a tomato grower in Germany decided to try using Hydroponic Systems' Spacer in his greenhouse to improve his yields. The decision was a wise one. After installing a premium system with Spacer , his tomato plants grew healthier and stronger, without excess moisture or bacterial infections.

Strawberry Farm Provides Intimate You-Pick Experience To The Public

12 June 2023

The story now goes that local production is superior, and consumers are mainly looking to buy products that are cultivated close to home. Yet, sometimes this goes one step further, and that’s exactly what Warm Belly Farm has been doing with their You-Pick experience.

Indoor Farming Gets A Place In Greenhouse Farming

12 May 2023

A regular greenhouse is far from always the best solution anymore. Indoor farming gets a place in greenhouse farming. There is a future for indoor farms. Jilles Goedkegt, director of GreenV Indoor, says that in a year or two, it will be the mature solution for various crops. There are several examples of this in practice. A solution involves choosing the best cultivation result by default.

Fresh Black Pepper Offers Opportunities For Dutch Cultivation

12 May 2023

Pepper is one of the most widely used spices in the world, especially in the dried form. The pepper plant is mainly grown in countries with a tropical climate, such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Brazil, Vietnam, and Cambodia. But an exploratory study by the Greenhouse Horticulture and Flower Bulbs Business Unit of Wageningen University & Research shows that fresh pepper can also be grown well in greenhouses.

Nearly 20 Years Of Growing Phalaenopsis And Still Growing Strong

12 May 2023

Growing quality Phalaenopsis Orchids efficiently and responsibly, all year round for the local market. This was the aim of the brothers Mike and Neil van Steekelenburg when they founded CosMic Plants Inc. in Beamsville Ontario in 2004.

Can Stone Wool Be Recycled?

12 April 2023

One of the biggest questions in agriculture is how to recycle waste. Whether it's drip tape, mulch film, nursery pots, or growing media, each product has been challenged to find a new life after being used by growers. The average recycling rate in the US is just around 30%, according to the EPA.

Advantages Of Growing Mushrooms In A Greenhouse

12 April 2023

Greenhouse production has seen a surge in growth over the years, with climate change and the ever-growing demand for produce. Tomatoes, cucumbers, and peppers have been regular staples for some time now, with eggplant added only several years ago. If current trends hold steady, mushrooms and strawberries could soon be major players in this industry, like lettuce and greens, for example.

Research Uncovers A New Approach To Cooling Greenhouse Irrigation Water

12 April 2023

A research project at a southwestern Ontario greenhouse has found a sustainable method to cool the water that growers use to irrigate their greenhouse vegetable crops - improving both plant health and fruit quality in the process.

Using funding from the Greenhouse Competitiveness and Innovation Initiative (GCII), Under Sun Acres Inc., has identified that water from a greenhouse’s stormwater management pond can be used to bring irrigation water to the ideal temperature the crops need, as opposed to using an electric or gas-powered cooling unit.

Pure Flavor Expands Greenhouse Portfolio Through Acquisition

20 March 2023

Pure Flavor® announces the acquisition of Cervini Farms C5 in Leamington, Ontario, to add to its expanding portfolio of greenhouses and distribution centers.

“The addition of the Cervini Farms C5 location was an opportunity to strengthen our strategic footprint. Increasing our owned acreage helps facilitate our growth alongside our grower partners and supports our need to scale up our operations to drive efficiencies. We are excited to add them to our family,” said Jamie Moracci, president.

Spiders Can Protect Tomatoes

20 March 2023

Groups of spiders could be used as an environmentally-friendly way to protect crops against agricultural pests. That's according to new research, led by the University of Portsmouth, which suggests that web-building groups of spiders can eat a devastating pest moth of commercially important crops like tomatoes and potatoes worldwide.

The tomato leafminer moth, Tuta absoluta, has developed resistance to chemical insecticides, which cause human and environmental damage, so different approaches, like using natural predators such as spiders, are needed to combat infestations.

Irish Wasabi Gets The Green Light For Foodservice Industry

20 March 2023

McCormack Family Farms will supply Irish wasabi at a commercial scale for the first time in Ireland. The distinctive Japanese plant, which is notoriously difficult to grow, will now be available in large quantities for use in Irish restaurants and by food processors.
Working closely with plant-based food and crop development specialists Beotanics, McCormack Family Farms was able to secure a supply of premium quality and a sustainably grown strain of wasabi from Japanese breeding lines, which were developed to be suitable for the Irish climate.

Combining Vertical Farming And Greenhouse Horticulture To Decentralize Lettuce Production

13 February 2023

The Salinas Valley, known as the "salad bowl of the United States," has been a vital source of lettuce and leafy greens for decades. The region has historically supplied most of the lettuce and leafy greens consumed across the nation. However, the recent disruption of supply chains, labor markets, water resources, and weather exposed some familiar pain points that continue to plague conventional growers and frustrate consumers with limited supply, deteriorating quality, and volatile pricing.

A More Natural Form Of Artificial Lighting With An LED Pulse Technology System

13 February 2023

There are many factors that influence the amount and length of light exposure plants receive. Things like the time of year, weather conditions, overlapping leaves, and even the position of individual plants all play a role. It’s in response to these phenomena that Perfand LED came to create technology imitating nature based on the modulation of light with a spectrum suitable for the crop. The unique pulsed lighting system for plants; the Horti 2 line.

Paving The Way For Sustainable Greenhouse Cultivation In China

24 January 2023

The greenhouse horticulture industry has developed fast in China over the last few years. Modern technology can minimize the limits imposed by the region and climate, allowing them to create an optimal climate for crop cultivation while increasing the yield and quality of certain vegetable varieties. The greenhouse at Hortipolaris is not considered a large-scale operation, but they continuously offer safe and healthy vegetables to the big urban city of Beijing.

Key Mistakes of Vertical Farms

24 January 2023

In her speech at the “Vertical Farms: Development Strategies, Business Models and Risks” online conference, Kateryna Poberezhna, FAO International Consultant, noted that “Very expensive technologies and an insufficient level of knowledge are also challenges, especially since this is not only agronomy but engineering, as well.” Despite the growth in investments in vertical farms around the world, many startups are going bankrupt, and this is due not only to insufficient market research and rising energy costs.

Could Almería's Greenhouses Serve As One Large Solar Park?

24 January 2023

The 33,000 hectares of greenhouses in Almería are an important source of food and have the potential to be much more, according to the Sana Energy company. Their development in nano-paste could ensure that Almería's greenhouses also become a source of electrical energy. But what is nano-paste?

Mobile Aeroponic System Requires Less Maintenance And Guarantees Even Irrigation

19 December 2022

Everyone is talking about sustainability and ways to reduce operational costs while doing – possibly – more. A cultivation method that addresses all of that is aeroponic. At the same time, setting up a large-scale aeroponic greenhouse is a huge task. That’s where the Swiss company CleanGreens Solutions comes into play.

New Report Outlines and Quantifies Catastrophic Loss From The Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus (ToBRFV)

19 December 2022

iUNU published a new report on the Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus (ToBRFV) titled Learning to Live With ToBRFV. The report contains information on how ToBRFV spreads, how to detect ToBRFV, diagnostics for every stage of production, and more.

"You Can't Grow on Water Without Lights"

19 December 2022

Peter and Christel Verschaeren of Hydroponic recently installed a new CHP system. That means these Belgian growers are all set to grow a crop under lights this winter, having already invested in LED lighting. "We couldn't have switched to LED at a better time. We can achieve the same cultivation rate but with less light," begins Peter.

Training Dogs to Scout Greenhouse Pests

04 November 2022

Scouting pests in a large greenhouse can be quite a challenge. After all, the pests are hardly visible to the eye, and populations grow rapidly in number. For that reason, Deanna Kjorlien and her colleagues are training dogs to respond to the odor of greenhouse pests. After all, a dog's nose is sensitive enough to perceive the presence of an insect colony, even when it's still too small for a grower to notice.

In Some Situations, Using Artificial Lights can be Just too Expensive

04 November 2022

Many growers have to deal with increasing energy prices, and we have already seen some major producers halting winter production or outright close business. "In some situations, using artificial lights can be just too expensive," says Tim van Hissenhoven, managing partner of Cultivators. "It all depends on the energy contract a grower has, but at some point it is almost inevitable to start calculating. If a grower finds out it's not possible to continue like that any longer, then the only choice is to stop."

"We noticed considerably lower Pythium pressure thanks to Trichoderma harzianum"

04 November 2022

Cucumber grower Kees Hendriks (Qcumber) explains how his plant protection strategy has moved from integrated to 'almost' biological, using fewer and fewer chemicals. He has been using Trianum for the past two years in order to protect his plants' roots. "I started using Trianum-G because of my crop's susceptibility to Pythium," explained Kees Hendriks.

Acrotelm and Wood Fiber as Alternative to Peat

14 October 2022

As if the energy crisis, fertilizers cost increase, and labor shortages weren’t enough, growers have to deal with a looming ban on peat. The UK has already banned peat for home growers, and while it’s probably going to take a longer time to impose that on commercial growers, the whole horti world is already looking for alternatives. “The thing is, however, that it’s unfeasible to think of a unique material that is going to replace peat 1:1,” says Pirita Luolamaa-Vollebregt from Novarbo Oy.

China's First Artificial Intelligence 5G Agricultural Robot Comes Out

14 October 2022

China's first artificial intelligence agricultural robot has officially started round-the-clock inspections in the smart vegetable and fruit greenhouse of the China-Israel Demonstration Farm in the Haixia Modern Agriculture Demonstration Park of the Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, marking that the Fujian artificial intelligence agricultural robot has officially entered the practical application from the research and development stage.

UK Strawberry Grower Uses UV-Light Robot to Keep Powdery Mildew at Bay

14 October 2022

The time when robots are widely available for every grower hasn’t yet arrived, but that doesn’t mean that some growers aren’t already betting on such innovative solutions. Dyson Farming, located in the UK, has invested in a UV light robot to improve the efficiency of their glasshouse enterprise, directly affecting the crop they grow. “It’s a novel solution,” agrees Angel Angelov, Glasshouse Manager at Dyson Farming.

New Packaging For Hydroponic Fertilizer Launched

20 September 2022

It is hot in the greenhouse at tomato grower Vermarke in Sint-Katelijne-Waver in early June. But one 'special employee' is not troubled by this. They are a robot that lowers the tomato plants. To do so, the robot turns the hooks around. "What is special is that the robot does this without being attached to the wire," Dimitri Verbruggen demonstrates. He is a manager at robot developer Veditec and points at what to the layman is 'a simple piece of metal'. "We have applied for a patent for this special gripper."

Cucumber Grower Let Robot Do Most Of The Leaf Picking

20 September 2022

When he steps into the greenhouse of cucumber grower Multigrow Grashoek, Stijn Linders of Lenzeel immediately makes a short sprint. The reason? The Diplo leaf-picking robot is already on its way to a new row of cucumber plants, where the robot will pick leaves from the bottom of the crop. Once in the row, the robot is busy for a while, so Stijn lets it stop to take a closer look.

UV Light Signals Program Plants To Unlock Their Genetic Potential

20 Septermber 2022

We’ve produced 40% yield gains in strawberries with no loss of sweetness across three seasons and multiple cultivars" The application of UV Light to controlled-environment agriculture (CEA) remains an area of active research and innovation, with a recent focus on pathogenic resistance. One company, BioLumic, is focusing on ways to supercharge plant growth and quality through short duration UV Light Signals “We’re programming plants with light at an early stage to unlock their natural genetic potential without chemicals or genetic modification,” says Steve Sibulkin, CEO of BioLumic.

New Robot To Lower A Plant Every 10 To 20 Seconds

17 August 2022

Research Team Identifies Genes Making Strawberries Resistant To Fusarium Wilt

17 August 2022

Strawberry losses from Fusarium wilt could become less of a threat after researchers at the University of California, Davis, discovered genes that are resistant to the deadly soilborne disease.

The findings, published in the journal Theoretical and Applied Genetics, are the culmination of several years’ work, and the discovery will help protect against disease losses, said Steve Knapp, a professor and director of the Strawberry Breeding Program in the Department of Plant Sciences.

Oxygen, The 'Forgotten' Ingredient?

17 August 2022

It goes without saying that water management in greenhouses is an aspect of cultivation that needs to be utterly monitored and adjusted. Think of the pH, the EC, the amount of algae, fungi, diseases, etc. But one factor that is at least as important as those is often forgotten, observes CEO André van der Stoel and his team from Industrial Product Solutions: Dissolved oxygen.

New Greenhouse Machine Zeus Protects Crops And Operators

11 June 2022

It rolls through the greenhouses, is equipped with airconditioning, an mp4 radio, and a novel articulation system enabling it to rotate in tight spaces. And more important: it helps growers protect their crops grown under plastic while protecting the operator of the machine. We're talking about the Tizona Zeus, a new greenhouse machine designed by the Spanish company Carretillas Amate.

Autonomous Robots Can Pick Up To 25,000 Raspberries Per Day

11 June 2022

University of Plymouth spinoff Fieldwork Robotics has commercially deployed its raspberry picking robots in two locations in Portugal. The autonomous robots feature four arms for picking, using sensor technology and grippers to curb harvesting times and reduce slippage.

Dutch Growers Urged To Get Growing Without Gas "The Only Way Out Is Off The Gas"

11 June 2022

"The only way out is off the gas." A cold shiver might go down your spine involuntarily when hearing last weeks news that by 2026 Dutch consumers will no longer be allowed to replace their old central heating with a new one - they will need to change it by a heatpump. I will wait and see, you might have thought, and the moderates will surely counter the hardliners.

Google Meets Agriculture at Go Green Agriculture

11 May 2022

Our passion is driven by the desire to make a difference, not chase a market opportunity. It is and continues to be about developing passionate leaders and creating a positive impact. We go after the most difficult challenges in our industry using science, math and engineering” says Pierre Sleiman, founder and CEO of Go Green Agriculture.