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La Serra & LettUs Grow partner in tomato trials

UK grower trials aeroponic propagation system

Commercial greenhouse growers La Serra and indoor farming technology provider LettUs Grow have partnered to conduct tomato propagation trials. The first aeroponic trials were…

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Raspberry grower trades peppers for strawberries and continues as soft fruit company

At the end of this season, Kees and Geert-Jan van Tuijl's farm in Zaltbommel will exchange peppers for strawberries, meaning the company will be a specialized soft fruit…

First results from pilot positive

"Transparent solar panels offer opportunities in energy transition"

In Someren and Lierop, Green Meteor, grower Thwan van Gennip, the researchers of the KU Leuven and Engie started a pilot with solar panels above the strawberries, raspberries…

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Kingsville dark again now that growers have installed blinds

Years of having her home and bedroom bathed in bright yellows and vivid purples on otherwise dark fall nights appear to have come to an end for many Kingsville residents like…

Longvine Growing Co hires new CFO, CEO position vacant

After nearly 7 years of leading the business, Kevin Doran is moving to the Longvine Growing Co Board of Directors, vacating the CEO position. Over the past…

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Brimato: a grafted plant that grows both tomato and eggplant

The agricultural scientists at the Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Varanasi successfully develop the Brimato – a grafted plant that yields both eggplants (brinjal) and…

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International day of rural women: cultivating good food for all

Achieving gender equality and empowering women is not only the right thing to do, but it is also a critical ingredient in the fight against extreme poverty, hunger, and…

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Exploring the potential of urban farming

As metropoles all over the world are encouraging urban food production, agriculture is making its way back to the cities. Urban farming in its modern forms looks cool (check…

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Webinar: Translating biotechnology of horticultural crops in a post-genomics era

In a webinar organized by the American Society for Horticultural Science, Dr. Abhaya M. Dandekar, Professor in the Plant Sciences Department of University of…

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Surna Cultivation Technologies becomes authorized reseller of BVV Neocision LED Grow Lights

Surna Cultivation Technologies has become a reseller of BVV Neocision LED grow lights. Surna will work closely with BVV to develop lighting layouts and to properly deploy and…

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Prices for cherry tomatoes in Uzbekistan hit record highs again

EastFruit analysts note record high prices for cherry tomatoes in Uzbekistan this season. Over the past two months, their average wholesale prices have doubled, and the…

New gel growing medium for better propagator growth announced

Proterra Ag announces a new gel grow medium, HYPERroots™, which aims to enable propagators to achieve higher yields consistently, with minimal OpEx. Testing in CEA and with…

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New center focusing on packaging at IPM Essen 2022

The ecological awareness of consumers is steadily increasing, and international horticulture is facing the challenge of responding to the growing desire for…

Farmers call on Biden administration to re-evaluate food issues:

"We demand better from the Biden administration"

More than 65 United States-based growers and food and trade justice advocates have delivered a letter to the Biden administration urging the U.S. government to…

Bringing broccoli to kids for National School Lunch Week

Bayer, in collaboration with Nature’s Reward and the United Fresh Start Foundation, is promoting a kid-friendly broccoli, just in time to celebrate National School Lunch Week,…
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Ocean Mist Farms announces new President and kicks off Cardone season

Ocean Mist Farms announces the promotion of Christopher Drew to president and chief executive officer. Drew is responsible for leading all commercial, operational, financial,…

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NIAB's crop improvement and resilience program finds new leader

NIAB has appointed Dr. Sigrid Heuer to lead its pre-breeding department and develop a program on trait dissection and gene discovery for crop improvement and…

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The benefits of coco coir in hydroponics

In a hydroponic system, a grower does not use traditional media. Instead, other media are employed to provide a safe and secure growing area for plant roots. Of these media,…

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WUR research finds:

"Millions of people suffer from a lack of healthy food"

Millions of people in Asia and Africa suffer not so much from a lack of food, but from a lack of healthy food. Simply put, fruits and vegetables are more expensive and less…

Ultrasonic battle against algae and micro-organisms into focus

As every grower knows, algae, bacteria, and fungi thrive in silos and basins, where algae and biofilm like to attach themselves to the basin and silo lining. Algae are…

Spanish biotech company wins agtech award

Idai Nature, a Spanish biotechnology company member of Rovensa Group, has received the award as the best AgTech of the year in the Go Global Awards of the…

Rhode Island: Plant Environmental Center's rooftop oasis "conserves precious green space"

At the Plant Environmental Center, located on the rooftop of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, plants ranging from a bonsai tree over 25 years old to a…

Light Science Technology Holdings trades on London Stock Exchange

Light Science Technologies Holdings has announced its flotation on the London Stock Exchange, as the group sets out its growth plans for the CEA market over…

Foodiverse hires new CEO

Foodiverse, a Spanish company specialized in fresh products, has announced the appointment of Jesús Gómez as the company’s new CEO. Jesús Gómez comes into this role having served as…

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Modern technology adoption hold the keys to future-proofing fresh produce industry

If a horticultural company is not embracing change on their farms, then there is no way they can improve, and are thus becoming stagnant or risking going backwards, according…

Gert-Jan Slobbe, Fortuna Frutos, the Netherlands

"Sales of first Canary Island tomatoes going smoothly, but a good year is desperately needed too"

Last week, the first round and plum tomatoes of the Canary Islands season arrived at Fortuna Frutos in the Netherlands. "The crop is perfect, so we can say this is a good…

AU: Public wants Government to back compostable packaging over recycling

Responding to a landmark new poll, almost 8 out of 10 Australian adults (78%) believe using compostable packaging is a more effective solution to the plastic waste crisis than…

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New mobile procurement platform simplifies online ordering and inventory management

Institutional food operators often use traditional processes to procure products and take inventories; think pencils, paper, clipboards, and scurrying to a…

Waddington Europe offers new punnet that's easier to recycle, using less plastic

European thermoforming packager Waddington® Europe, a division of Novolex®, has launched a new 100% mono-material protective soft-fruit punnet thanks to the company's MONOAIR™…

'Spanish snake cucumbers took off massively'

Spanish snake cucumbers took off massively, taking the lead in the market. Dutch and domestic offers followed, and Belgian shipments completed the market. In Munich, there…

Restart for Trias Westland in sight during symbolic opening

On Wednesday, 13 October, Trias Westland was opened with growers, Jan-Kees Goet, Secretary-General of LNV, and Sandor Gaastra, Director-General of EZK. With two geothermal…

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"We can focus more on quality and how the product satisfies consumer needs”

“In vertical farming, it is interesting how quickly the industry has grown without specific varieties or seeds developed for that purpose,” says John Purcell, CEO and…

Alice Zaslavsky - Interacting with your Consumers

How developing a better connection with consumers helps boost fresh fruit and vegetable consumption

One of Australia's leading food writers says growers need to connect with consumers not only to push the message surrounding their produce, but also to listen to what is…

Past lessons helped Dutch sprout specialist weather the pandemic

For Van der Plas Sprouts, last year might not have been as crazy as 2011, when, during the EHEC crisis, the Dutch sprout specialist lost 70% of its sales within 24 hours.…

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