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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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Urban Crop Solutions Launches E-Shop for Spare Parts and Consumables
In a further extension of their service offering, Urban Crop Solutions has launched an e-shop to better support their existing, and new customers in the day-to-day as well as long-term operation of their indoor farming businesses. Everything that an operator needs – from seeds and substrates to sensors and container parts – can be ordered via the e-shop. The e-shop is a separate and ...
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Lifeasible Updated Its Offerings for Insecticidal Proteins
Lifeasible, a leading provider of innovative agricultural solutions, is pleased to announce the expansion and enhancement of its offerings for insecticidal proteins. With a commitment to sustainable and effective pest control, Lifeasible continues to develop and provide cutting-edge solutions to address the challenges faced by farmers and growers worldwide. Insect pests pose a significant threat ...
By Lifeasible
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inSoma Launches Seed Round After YC S2020
After completing the Summer 2020 Y-combinator batch (and being named a crunchbase favorite), we are excited to announce the launch of our Seed Round. Please reach out at info@insomabio.com! ...
By InSoma Bio
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Urban Crop Solutions Ranked #4 in Fact Company’s List of Most Innovative Companies
Urban Crop Solutions has been named the fourth Most Innovative company in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa by Fast Company. The only indoor farming company to be named in this category, it stood out for the launch of PharmSpeeTM – a platform enabling the use of plants, instead of animal cells or synthetic materials, for the production of ingredients for the biopharmaceutical, life ...
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Groundbreaking Step Makes Van Der Hoeven The Largest Turnkey Greenhouse Supplier On The Chinese Market
Joining forces after years of successful collaboration with partner Yonghong. Van der Hoeven Horticultural Projects launches the first joint venture ever set up in China by a company of its kind. Together with its partner Kunshan Yonghong Greenhouse Co., Ltd., Van der Hoeven takes an important step in the chain. This groundbreaking collaboration makes them the largest and most complete turnkey ...
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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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Van Der Hoeven Brings New Dimension To Controlled Environment Agriculture By Opening Office In The United States
The world is increasingly realizing that we need to preserve our planet and that it requires a more sustainable approach on agriculture. Additionally, people across the globe deserve access to healthy food. The demand for locally grown and healthy food continues to grow in the U.S. as well. Moreover, the U.S. continues to be a strategic hub for global decision-making in Controlled Environment ...
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Insect farming seems to be such a good business opportunity, that even the notorious “Iron Man” Robert Downey Jr cannot pass it up
Insect farming seems to be such a good business opportunity, that even the notorious “Iron Man” cannot pass it up. Robert Downey Jr. is the latest investor of one of the biggest insect farms being built in Northern France: the nutritional and environmental benefits of bugs are well-established, which has prompted many companies to find the most effective solution for insect protein ...
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AlfaTech (SG) Becomes Integration and Service Partner of Urban Crop Solutions for South East Asia
AlfaTech will become the integration and service partner for the products of Urban Crop Solutions (UCS) in the South East Asian region. After an already first successful joint project for the National University of Singapore, both technology companies will now work together for indoor vertical farming projects. Urban Crop Solutions has since 2014, been active in the engineering, procurement, ...
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Carbon Robotics Disrupts Farming Industry with Autonomous Weeders
Carbon Robotics, an autonomous robotics company, today unveiled its third-generation autonomous weed elimination robots. The Autonomous Weeder leverages robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), and laser technology to safely and effectively drive through crop fields to identify, target and eliminate weeds. Unlike other weeding technologies, the robots utilize high-power lasers to eradicate weeds ...
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Farming for Water With Severn Trent
It’s an inescapable fact these days that freshwater ecosystems around the UK are being put under increasing amounts of pressure, with climate change, extreme weather events, population growth, urbanisation, water mismanagement and pollution all taking their toll on both water quality and water quantity. One of the leading sources of impact is agriculture, with river health affected by the ...
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Further set of EU rural development programmes for the period 2007-2013 agreed
The Rural Development Committee (consisting of representatives of the 27 Member States) gave a positive opinion to the Rural Development programmes of Denmark, Scotland, France (Guadeloupe) and Italy (Valle d'Aosta, Puglia, Sicily and Basilicata) for the financial period 2007-2013. These programmes are defined to guarantee infrastructure, create new income opportunities for rural regions, promote ...
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Premier Tech Ltd Acquires Additional Units of Sun Gro Horticulture Income Fund
RIVIERE-DU-LOUP, QUEBEC - Premier Tech Ltd. ("Premier Tech") today announced that it acquired between December 9, 2009 and June 24, 2010, through the facilities of the Toronto Stock Exchange, an aggregate of 469,100 trust units (the "Purchased Units") of Sun Gro Horticulture Income Fund (the "Trust"). The Purchased Units were acquired in a series of transactions through the facilities of the ...
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CIM and Queen’s University launch mentorship pilot program
The Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM), in collaboration with the OneCIM Steering Committee and the Robert M. Buchan Department of Mining at Queen’s University, is implementing a mentorship pilot program. The aim of this program is to help Queen’s students prepare for leadership roles and establish a strong network before they enter the industry. The program ...
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Ambic Product News – EasiFoamer Manifold Upgrade
An improved design for the EasiFoamer applicator is being introduced with immediate effect. The current fixed manifold which screws into the back of the EasiFoamer™ Applicator is being replaced by a Remote Manifold Assembly. Click here to download a copy of the Product News. Click here to view the EasiFoamer page. ...
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Media Partnership with Automation Connect
AutomationConnect is an End to End B2B Portal exclusively for Industrial Automation and Industry 4.0 conceived and headed by an industrial automation pioneer & veteran. The portal is the Automation Exchange Platform for industrial automation ecosystem comprising of Automation endusers (manufacturing industries), Automation vendors, OEMs, System Integrators,Consultants, AutomationTechnology ...
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New Crush to Wales
Congratulations to Gwyn Pierce collecting his new crush ready to start his new venture in West Wales. Good Luck Gwyn and remember we are here 24/7 as part of the ...
By DP Agri Ltd
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New website
Welcome to our new website, as of November 2020 we have reworked our website to make it easier for you to find just what you need, BUT.. If you cant find what you are looking for then call us and we will be happy to ...
By DP Agri Ltd
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Integrating MILAS and BESTMIX (an introduction to AIS) - Video
In this episode, we’re going to present one of our most crucial integrations: the integration between our MILAS, and Adifo’s market leading formulation software, BESTMIX. The specific process that we’re going to cover in this video, is the import of a recipe, and its label declaration within MILAS. To see video, please click here ...
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