greenhouse operator News
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What is normal?
I remember an occasion years ago when I worked for another greenhouse company receiving a phone call from a lady who told the receptionist that she had bought one of our greenhouses and was having difficulty putting it up. The call was transferred to someone who could help and a detailed and prolonged conversation ensued. After 10 minutes of talking the lady on the other end of the phone calmly ...
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Leading New Zealand greenhouse operator chooses Hanovia UV to disinfect cultivation water
Hanovia UV technology has been selected by NZ Hothouse, a leading New Zealand provider of fresh produce, to disinfect the water used for soil-less plant cultivation in its glasshouses. Located near Auckland, NZ Hothouse has almost 20 hectares of glasshouses on two sites growing tomatoes, capsicums and cucumbers for distribution both nationally and internationally. The source of the ...
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Caterpillar Inc. and Sun Select Produce Inc. Announce Plans for Greenhouse Collaboration
Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) and SunSelect Produce, Inc., known for producing premium greenhouse-grown vegetables for more than 30 years, today announced a strategic collaboration that will take the waste products of Caterpillar’s combined heat and power cogeneration facility in Mossville, Illinois, and put them to productive use in SunSelect hydroponic greenhouses. The agreement is subject ...
By Caterpillar
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Van Der Hoeven Horticultural Projects Realises Doubling For Costa
Costa is located in New South Wales in Australia, near the village of Guyra. This client grows tomatoes for the Australian market. The construction of the current project started in 2019. However, work temporarily halted, caused by the bushfires that raged in Australia at the end of 2019, but the project eventually resumed in September 2020. Daan Kristel (Project Coordinator) explains the details ...
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Thank you!
As the owner of Dovetail Greenhouses and someone that enjoys his work, this last 15 months have carried a significant number of challenges. I will come to those later. Running a small business is not always easy, however one of the benefits is that you get to know your staff very well. Now I admit that can be both good and bad, but on this occasion I would like to concentrate on the good. I can ...
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Urban Crop Solutions solidifies presence in North America with the appointment of Douglas Gamble as Sales Manager
Urban Crop Solutions (UCS) is pleased to announce the appointment of Doug Gamble as their North American Sales Manager. Doug has spent over 25 years in management, sales, and business development roles; and brings his own entrepreneurial experiences and spirit to the position. He joins UCS from the more traditional side of agriculture – having been raised on a dairy farm, which later ...
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New Greenhouse for VandeWetering Greenhouses in Jamesport NY, USA
In July VB Group started to replace part of the existing greenhouses and has built a modern and technologic advanced greenhouse complex for VandeWetering Greenhouses near New York. VB Greenhouses, member of VB Group, started in June with the delivery and installation of all greenhouse materials. The greenhouse is intended for the production of young plants and cuttings. After completion ...
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High-tech greenhouse research facility for Australian horticulture
Supported by Wageningen UR Greenhouse horticulture, a new high-tech greenhouse research facility will be built on the campus of University of Western Sydney, 50 km West of Sydney, Australia. Greenhouse horticultural industry is fast developing in Australia. Several new large vegetable production sites have started their operation during the last years, some of them with Dutch technology. ...
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Ohio State Greenhouse Management Workshop for Greenhouse Growers, Operators and Pesticide Applicators
New, better ways to control pests will be the focus of Ohio State University’s 2015 Greenhouse Management Workshop in January. Registration is now open, with a discount rate until Jan. 9. The workshop, which is for greenhouse growers, operators and pesticide applicators, takes place Jan. 22-23 in the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center’s Fisher Auditorium, 1680 Madison ...
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GWorkS-model simulates crop operations in greenhouses
Wageningen UR Greenhouse Horticulture and Wageningen University, group Farm Technology developed a simulation model for labour in greenhouses. Global competition urges growers to continuously improve labour efficiency and to innovate crop operations in order to control labour costs and to offer appealing jobs and healthy work conditions in greenhouses. Computer simulation was used to find ...
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Decagon devices part of US$5m USDA grant
Decagon Devices, in Pullman, Washington is part of a national team that recently received a 5-year USDA – National Institute of Food and Agriculture Specialty Crop Research Initiative Grant award of $5,161,495 to investigate precision irrigation and nutrient management for nursery, greenhouse and green roof systems using wireless sensor networks. Decagon Devices, an environmental instrumentation ...
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Pedro Torres and Horticultorres Introduces New FibreDust Products in Mexico
In the summer of 2015, Pedro Torres Plaza founded Horticultorres S. de R.L. de C.V., a new company active in the field providing horticultural supplies and consulting to the Mexican greenhouse industry. Before the start of Horticultorres, Torres, an entrepreneur, realized early on that horticulture was his passion. After graduating from ITESM, campus Queretaro as an Agronomist, he gained ...
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Sensor-based Irrigation Systems Show Potential to Increase Greenhouse Profitability
Wireless sensor-based irrigation systems can offer significant benefits to greenhouse operators. Advances in sensor technology and increased understanding of plant physiology have made it possible for greenhouse growers to use water content sensors to accurately determine irrigation timing and application rates in soilless substrates. The wireless sensor systems provide more accurate measurements ...
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Ozone technology for greenhouse water treatment
Originally Pubished on Hortidaily: https://www.hortidaily.com/article/9067358/proper-greenhouse-water-recycling-is-the-key-to-increasing-your-profitability/ “Proper greenhouse water recycling is the key to increasing your profitability, year after year. Without adequate control of your nutrient feed solution, the entire process of fertigation can prove harmful for your crop’s steady ...
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Sunlight Will Grow Crops While Generating Electricity at Italy Greenhouse Co-Owned by Moser Baer and GE
A greenhouse nearing completion in Italy will tap the sun’s energy to grow crops while generating electricity from its roof-mounted photovoltaic modules in a project co-owned by clean energy developer Moser Baer Clean Energy Limited (MBCEL) and GE (NYSE: GE) unit GE Energy Financial Services. The companies announced today at Solar Power International, a ...
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New Greenhouses Boost Research, Competitive Edge
The new Williams Hall greenhouse complex on the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center’s Wooster campus is much more than a replacement for the greenhouse lost to a tornado almost five years ago: It’s a state-of-the-art facility that will help advance plant research and strengthen Ohio agriculture. The original Williams Hall greenhouse complex was leveled by a September ...
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Turn-key Project 10 ha. Vallealto - Mexico
Verbakel-Bomkas is starting a 10 ha. greenhouse project in Monterrey, Mexico for Vallealto Produce. The first containers of materials have arrived on site and the first part of the greenhouse construction has been erected. Vallealto Produce is a first class bell pepper growing operation. The new greenhouse is an innovative plastic greenhouse with an extruded aluminium gutter and roof system. The ...
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First Ultra-Clima greenhouse by KUBO in Uzbekistan operational from March 2020
In March, Uzbekistan acquired its own high-tech horticulture. In that month, cultivation started in the 5.5-hectare Ultra-Clima greenhouse delivered by KUBO. The project is in the Khorezm region, an area in the west of the Central Asian country with a population of 32 million people. Interestingly: the government is the driver behind the use of modern horticultural technology. ‘Sowing ...
By Kubo Group
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International partnership will develop first market ready sweet pepper harvesting robot
12 February 2015 will be the start of SWEEPER, an innovation driven international research programme for the development of the first generation market ready sweet pepper harvesting robot. The research is being supported by the Horizon 2020 programme of European Union. Wageningen University & Research Centre will coordinate the international network in which partners from Sweden, Israel, ...
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State of progress of the IOC project to increase the economic yield of the genetic olive resources through the creation of pilot demonstration nurseries
In the framework of its programme of activities for the first semester of 2016, at a project mid-term evaluation meeting with the Common Fund for Commodities (CFC), the project implementing agency (Tunisian Olive Tree Institute) and the collaborating centres (the National Institute of Agricultural Research of Morocco (INRA), the Technical Institute for Fruit Tree and Vine Growing of Algeria ...
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