grower News
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Illumitex Expands to Vertical Farms Across the Globe
Illumitex is expanding its LED lighting services to six international countries in the vertical farming industry. Among the international vertical farms Illumitex is currently working with are Remy located in Israel, Asahi Techno in Japan, Agricool in France and aquaponic startups in Norway and Italy. Illumitex’s involvement with the Association for Vertical Farming, educational events, ...
By Illumitex
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Celebrating Research Centre’s Third Anniversary with Notable Accomplishments & Milestones
Urban Crop Solutions (UCS) launched its research centre in 2020. The fully equipped state-of-the-art research centre, housed at its HQ in Belgium, boasts multiple controlled environment growth chambers for crop cultivar screening, nutrient formulations, plant cultivation techniques, LED light spectrum research, hydroponic irrigation, and cultivation development. The research centre is operated by ...
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Is Vertical Farming Here to Stay?
Farmers growing vertically, in a warehouse, say they can grow 100 times more greens per square foot than traditional farms. Videos and articles are popping up everywhere about new vertical farms opening. An article from Business Insider features a new farm called Bowery, located in New Jersey. Using LED lighting that mimics natural light and instead of soil, growing hydroponically, they are ...
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LED lamp to make strawberries tastier and healthier
Who doesn’t love strawberries? What the Dutch call ‘summer kings’ look enticing, have a delicious taste and contain lots of vitamin C. Scientists at Wageningen UR Greenhouse Horticulture in Bleiswijk think that they can make the taste even better, the levels of antioxidants even higher and, especially, more constant. The trick? Exposing strawberries in a greenhouse to LED lamps. ...
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Valoya’s C-series LED grow light now certified for USA and Canada
Valoya’s C90 of the C-series LED lights is now cETLus-certified. This means that it has passed all tests required for standards in US and Canada. The C90 now meets the growing demand from professional North American growers for vertical farming applications and for use in tissue culture and other multilayer growing applications. The dimmable, passively cooled, C-series has gained ...
By Valoya Oy
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Valoya Appoints a VP Sales North America
Valoya continues its growth trajectory with the addition of VP Sales North America, Mr. Wes Eaton. With extensive experience in horticulture and business development, Mr. Eaton will be tasked with driving Valoya’s growth in the North American market even further. Eaton’s horticulture industry experience is extensive, and his track record is impressive. Having worked in sales of two ...
By Valoya Oy
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End-of-production LED Lighting Increases Red Pigmentation in Lettuce
Growing vegetables in greenhouses extends crop production seasons in northern latitudes, but the greenhouse environment is far from ideal for providing plants with optimal photosynthetic light. In fact, available photosynthetic daily light in greenhouses can be reduced by up to 50% or more by the structures' glazing material, superstructure, and shading. In northern latitudes, low light is ...
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History sheds revealing light on crop sequencing
Forty years of crop sequencing trials have recently been collated by the Department of Agriculture and Food WA (DAFWA), giving Western Australian grain growers real insights into the rotational benefits of break crops. Representing more than 160 crop sequence experiments, the results were presented by DAFWA’s Mark Seymour at the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) supported 2009 ...
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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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Light-emitting Diode Sole-source Lighting Effective in Bedding Plant Seedling Production
In northern latitudes, producers of bedding plants depend on supplemental lighting during the late winter and early spring growing seasons. Unfortunately, these peak times for young plant production are also the darkest. Researchers have determined that a minimum amount of photosynthetic light (daily light integral; DLI) is necessary to produce high-quality young plants in greenhouses. In ...
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Valoya and Citizen Electronics Enter a Licensing Agreement
Citizen Electronics Co. Ltd., leading developer of electronic devices and applied products and Valoya, the research driven LED grow light manufacturer have entered a licensing agreement whereby Citizen Electronics will take Valoya’s LED spectrum portfolio into use. Citizen Electronics will apply Valoya’s spectrum technology know-how in order to strengthen its COB (chip on board) LED ...
By Valoya Oy
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Valoya Launches Two New Greenhouse LED Grow Lights
Valoya, the research driven manufacturer of horticultural LED grow lights has expanded its RX-Series line of greenhouse LEDs with two new models – RX500 and RX600. The new models are higher power, higher efficiency versions of the existing RX400 model and can be used as true 1-to-1 HPS replacements. RX500 and RX600 produce up to the staggering 1700 µmol/s of uniform light output. They ...
By Valoya Oy
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