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Frank Hessing, Hessing Supervers:

“We are coming from a labor-intensive industry and are going to a capital-intensive industry”

With labor prices increasing and the availability of labor decreasing rapidly, a company like Hessing Supervers operates in a challenging market. It's…

“In the summer, we’re flying in strawberries from the U.S., tomatoes from Spain. It doesn’t make sense.”

"It's always nice to be copied," Richard Kohn, General Manager of Iyris and SkyFarms, says with a smile. "It means we're at the head of the pack."…

PATS-Cast officially launched for growers

AI forecasting tool alerts growers exactly when caterpillars will hatch

PATS-C is great at detecting moths. But let's be honest, the larvae cause the real damage. And in most cases it's also the stage where biological…

Grupo La Caña completes its participation in the iGUESSmed project

Reducing water use without with climate and soil sensors

Grupo La Caña has completed its participation in the iGUESSmed (Innovative Greenhouse Support System in the Mediterranean Region) European project, an…

Enza Zaden and IUNU

Partnership to bridge the gap between growers and new varietals

Enza Zaden has partnered with IUNU to bring a new level of precision and performance to breeding new varieties in a greenhouse environment. With IUNU's…

UK-EU exports down 23% post-Brexit amid trade friction

The UK's exports to the EU have dropped by 23% since 2017, while imports from the bloc have declined just 5%, according to business group Logistics UK. The…

US: Opening keynote panel announced for CEA Summit East 2025

Indoor Ag-Con and the CEA Innovation Center have announced that the 4th Annual Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) Summit East will kick off with…

Piet van Vugt, Van Vugt Kruiden

Fresh basil, year-round, from the Netherlands

Basil from the Netherlands, in the middle of winter? Until last year, it was a project, but since January, it has been a reality. "We now supply…

Zayndu achieves

Global ISO 9001 accreditation for plasma seed priming system

Zayndu has recently been awarded ISO 9001 quality management system certification. Production manager Tyler Smith and CEO Ralph Weir discuss what this…

India: Member of the former Odisha Royal Family uses hydroponics to grow exotic vegetables

India: Member of the former Odisha Royal Family uses hydroponics to grow exotic vegetables

Special GreenTech

Dutch grower beats Aubergenius

Last week, GreenTech took place at the RAI in Amsterdam. The Horticulture team of Oerlemans Plastics had a successful presence – joined by Dutch professional darts player Dirk…

Nigeria: Firm unveils greenhouse to boost smart farming in Jos

A food processing firm Teva Food, has unveiled a new greenhouse and planted 12,400 seeds of bell pepper and cucumber to boost organic and smart farming…

New financing opportunities available in the Romanian vegetable sector

According to Ziarul Financiar, the Paying Agency AFIR is preparing the launch of a new EU-financed measure under the Romanian CAP Strategic Programme.…

China: Examining aquaponics as a method for sustainable food production

In an era of growing urbanization and increasing food insecurity, a new study published in Engineering offers a promising solution through the…

Dose-response of tomato fruit yield to far-red fraction in supplementary lighting

Supplementary LED lighting in greenhouse horticulture is typically rich in red light (R, 600 – 700 nm) while it lacks far-red light (FR, 700 - 800 nm),…

Hong Kong: Festival to celebrate local watermelons

The Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) will hold the Local Organic Watermelon Festival 2025 from June 20 to feature four…

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Mauricio Manotas

Bring your kid to work day 😂… but what if your office its always changing and goes from flowers to tomatoes? Or from peppers to strawberries? I would say that there is no…

Looking at the trends of eco-friendly management of postharvest fungal decays in tomato

This article reviews sustainable strategies to control postharvest fungal decay (e.g., Botrytis cinerea, Alternaria spp., and Colletotrichum…

UK: Latest industry research to feature at Fruit Focus 2025

Visitors to Fruit Focus 2025 will be among the first to see the most up-to-date research and innovations from Niab. The specialist one-day event will…

CAN: Compaction event to be held in Ontario

The St. Clair Region of the Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association (OSCIA) will be hosting a Compaction Event on August 7th, 2025, at the…

India: Greenhouses giving new life to growers in freezing temperatures

In the harsh, wind-swept expanses of Ladakh, where winter temperatures often plummet below –30 degrees Celsius, sunlight remains intense and…

Bayer NZ Crop Science closes its Hastings research facility

One of New Zealand's largest agrichemical companies has decided to close its research facility in Hastings, and the sector's peak body warns it may not…

New Horticulture New Zealand associate director announced

Horticulture New Zealand (HortNZ) has appointed Kirsti Lovie as its new associate director. Lovie is a business performance and sustainability manager with Craigmore Sustainables and is ac…

Bruce Carman on engineering modular micro-environments for urban food production

“You can keep adding capsules to your overall operation as finances permit”

Controlled Environment Farms (CEF) is introducing a structural rethink to indoor agriculture. Rather than retrofitting entire buildings to grow one crop under…

Tomato prices to rise with new U.S. tariffs

Tomato prices in the United States may increase due to new tariffs on Mexican imports, impacting restaurant, grocery, and household expenditures. The U.S.…

Challenges in Australia's vegetable sector

The Australian vegetable sector faces challenges similar to those of New Zealand, but approaches solutions with the advantage of a larger sector and…

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“It started with three lights”: from humble beginnings to international expansion

From small garage grows in the high desert to international retail locations, Mike, one of the founders of Cookies Maywood, has seen firsthand how far…

Arkansas blackberry field day highlights weather and tech

The annual Blackberry Field Day on June 10 attracted growers from Arkansas and neighboring states, aiming to explore industry status, including emerging…

Fuentes Farms recalls open field cucumbers over Salmonella risk

Fuentes Farms of McAllen, Texas, is recalling 71 boxes of fresh cucumbers due to the potential presence of Salmonella, a bacterium that can cause serious and…

KÖHRA-Frische already processes 80 per cent of orders digitally

"There are simply too few people to handle all processes manually"

Telephone and fax are a thing of the past: At KÖHRA-Frische GmbH in Saxony, the majority of orders are now processed digitally – 80 per cent of all…

Rwanda chili farmers face losses over seed costs and prices

Chili farmers in Rwanda's Kayonza District face obstacles related to ineffective pesticides and unstable market prices, resulting in a loss of six tons last…

Landgard eG is repositioning itself as part of the Landgard NOVA project

Moritz Krannich takes over at Landgard

Landgard eG will be led by Chief Financial Officer Moritz Krannich (pictured below) until further notice. On Wednesday, the Supervisory Board decided to revoke…

Stewarts of Tayside will double the number of raspberries it supplies to Asda

First large-scale Waitrose supermarket in seven years

Enilive and SPAR Austria expand DESPAR Express forecourt storesThe energy company Enilive Austria and SPAR Austria are intensifying their…

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