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The greenhouse drip irrigation systems are among the most advantageous inventions that modern horticulture is experiencing, just because they try to minimize the use of water and other inputs in order to grow plants as much as possible in the right direction. ...
Earlier this year, recent graduate Daisy Campion undertook a short placement with ADAS to complement her horticulture studies. We caught up with Daisy after her placement finished to find out about her career journey and what she got up with the ADAS horticulture team. ...
With thanks to funding from the Farming Connect ‘Try Out Fund’, Adrian is working with ADAS horticultural entomologists to investigate if a predatory bug, Orius laevigatus, could be a reliable weapon against future thrip invasions. ...
Palm fibres are versatile and stable and can be processed into various dimensional grades to suit specific applications such as erosion control, mattress cushion production, soil stabilization, horticulture and landscaping, ceramic and brick manufacturing, paper production, acoustics control, livestock care, compost, fertilizer and animal feed. ...
In a year marked by abnormally early crop disease pressures, over 880 British farmers, agronomists, and advisors have made use of the free IPM Tool to create over 1200 bespoke IPM cropping plans online. As part of a new update released this week, new benchmarking functionality allows users to view current invertebrate pest, disease, and weed risks on a national level, and compare their IPM ...
A new 1.75-megawatt agrivoltaic solar array at Iowa State University will study how best to optimize land use while providing local community benefits. Horticulture and agriculture students will plant crops to study how they perform under solar arrays of various heights and configurations. ...
Moreover, the U.S. continues to be a strategic hub for global decision-making in Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA). Van der Hoeven Horticultural Projects therefore announces to open office in the U.S. ...
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. ...
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 ...
For many decades, Van der Hoeven Horticultural Projects has a successful collaboration with Rijk Zwaan. Rijk Zwaan is an international vegetable breeding company with over 3500 employees in 30 different countries. ...
Further examples include a new broad-spectrum fungicide for cereals, corn, fruits and vegetables with blockbuster potential in research phase 3 and a new mode of action broad-spectrum horticulture fungicide in research phase 2 with opportunities to extend to cereals and oil seed rape. ...
ByBayer AG
Learn more about the use of Magnosiet and Kieserit in agriculture. Magnosiet and Kieserit are fertilizers based on sulphur or magnesium and are ideally suited for the use in agriculture. FERRO DUO has had outstanding quality magnosiet and kieserite fertilizers in its range for several years now, which are particularly suitable for use in industrial agriculture. Our high-quality and pure ...
Beside adding fruit size and fruit growth maps for an area or a block, here are other new features, designed to help growers simplify and optimize their day-to-day horticultural practices: Total visibility in the palm of your hand The Plant Mobile app now includes the hydraulic monitoring layer (already available on the web app). ...
ByPhytech
Seoul Semiconductor develops and commercializes LEDs for horticulture, general illumination, automotive, specialty lighting, and backlighting markets. ...
Our second video featuring Dr Mark Else (NIAB EMR’s Head of Crop Science) looks in detail at how the NIAB EMR research teams use the Delta-T Devices WET-2 and SM150T Sensors to monitor soil moisture, temperature and pore EC (electrical conductivity) within their WET Centre strawberry ...
The REA appreciates that maintaining the quality of products for the amateur and professional horticulture markets is important and that there is horticulture/growing media industry desire to grow more sustainably. The industry has worked towards overcoming barriers to wider adoption of peat-reduced and peat-free growing media products, especially for the amateur ...
After a large increase in membership in the first months of this year which brought our membership to over 100 organisations (read our article on celebrating our 100th member), we welcome the diverse range of organisations that joined our community in April and May 2021. Read in the following post about their plans within the Cool Farm ...
Having spent over 25 years in horticulture equipment, Filip brings invaluable experience in the international sale of turnkey projects. With a background in the export and installation of tree nurseries, automated greenhouses, and horticulture projects across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and North America – Filip is well ...
This minimising of wastage is of huge importance given the increasing scarcity of water - and the likelihood that intensive horticultural growing systems will become increasingly based in urban locations, where very strict water waste prevention protocols (and legislation) are likely to be the norm. ...
Netafim, the global leader of precision irrigation solutions and agricultural projects and part of the Orbia community of companies, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Dutch turn-key greenhouse project provider Gakon Horticultural Projects. Netafim has been active for several decades in the greenhouse market and is now expanding its offering in the ...
ByOrbia