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Find us at Fruit Focus 2021

We are pleased to announce we will be exhibiting at Fruit Focus 2021. Find us on stand 106 with our latest innovative machinery including the impressive BSK Air Jet Berry Harvester! We have been selected as UK importers for the BSK Air Jet Berry Harvester which can substitute up to 200 pickers per shift, ideal for a wide range of soft fruits including Blueberries, Raspberries, Blackberries and ...

Jul. 7, 2021

By Kirkland UK

Green Good Design Award for Lumos solar canopy

Congratulations to Clayton Korte and BK Architects on their 2021 GREEN GOOD DESIGN award-winning solar canopy! This prestigious award is for their design of the Saxum Vineyard Equipment Barn solar canopy in Paso Robles, CA. Awarded by The European Centre for Architecture Art, Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum, the GREEN GOOD DESIGN’s goal is to bestow international ...

Apr. 29, 2021

By Lumos Solar

Vitas Portugal continues its development with FALUA

Our subsidiary Vitas Portugal continues its rapid and ambitious development in the wine industry with its company Falua. Falua has acquired the vineyard “Quinta do Hospital.” With this recent acquisition in Monção, Falua builds upon its presence in the Tejo production region, now extending its operations to the Vinho Verde region. Quinta do Hospital is an exceptional ...

Apr. 29, 2021

By TIMAC Agro Italia

How Octaform’s Founder is Helping Kenyan Villagers Through Beekeeping

Octaform founder Dave Richardson along with his wife, Pamela, and son, Colby, helped to establish a program in collaboration with WE Charity in Kenya in order to empower community members with a sustainable economic practice that simultaneously helps the environment. What is that sustainable economic practice, you ask? Bees! What the Program Does This is an initiative established in 2019 that ...

Apr. 27, 2021

By Octaform Systems Inc.

(Italy) from SIGEP EXP confidence in the dessert and coffee out-of-home market

Awaiting the live edition in January 2022 at Rimini expo centre, Italian Exhibition Group kept the relationship with foodservice alive via its digital platform. The figures are clear: 250 exhibitors taking part, 25% of the trade members from 136 foreign countries. 268 buyers from 60 countries met the companies, resulting in 2,500 meetings and 1,250 hours of web connection Sigep Exp, the ...

Mar. 18, 2021

By Italian Exhibition Group SpA (IEG)

A New Era in Agriculture: Crop cultivation with Negative Carbon Footprint

Brite in cooperation with Tsantalis, the largest wmemaker in Greece, developed an experimental greenhouse for viticulture cultivation using Brite's Solar Glass. This fully automated greenhouse has a cultivation area of 1,200 m3 and operates all year round due to its heating and cooling systems. The cultivated crop is a grape variety native to Greece, called Asyrtiko, and used for making white ...

Mar. 2, 2021

By Brite Solar

Project - AgriChemWhey

AgriChemWhey will seek to build a first-of-a kind, industrial-scale bio-refinery which will take by-products from the dairy processing industry – excess whey permeate (WP) and delactosed whey permeate (DLP) – and convert them into cost competitive, sustainable lactic acid. This lactic acid can in turn be used to make value-added bio-based products for growing global markets, including ...

Feb. 22, 2021

By GIG Karasek GmbH

New ISOBUS terminal SMART570 available

Müller-Elektronik reports the start of series production for the new ISOBUS terminal SMART570. The very compact entry-level device works independently of the manufacturer and is designed to be particularly user-friendly with its easy-to-use functions. The operating and display unit SMART570 complies with ISOBUS standard ISO 11783. As a universal terminal (UT) it can be used on all ISOBUS ...

Jan. 29, 2021

By Müller-Elektronik GmbH und Co. KG

Preparing for 2021 harvesting season

Preparing for the new season The new year has just started but preparations for the new harvesting season are already in full swing. The 2021 model of our Harvy 500 berry harvester has several improvements, including: Intelligent steering More powerful drive train Firmer bins for collecting the berries But improving our harvesting robot means testing, testing, testing. So the robot ...

Jan. 19, 2021

By FineField

Closer to rapid detection of fruit flies invading Europe’s crops

Scientists work intensively towards healthy EU fruit crops. They collect biological and ecological data, and field test electronic traps and noses prototypes to create a holistic innovative approach on fruit flies’ invasion, from early detection to prevention. The Annual Meeting brought up together more than 40 scientists from 16 countries (representing 21 project partners) to share ...

Dec. 4, 2020

By e-nema Gesellschaft für Biotechnologie und biologischen Pflanzenschutz mbH

Reduce antibiotic use in farming

To round off World Antibiotic Awareness Week in November, the Alliance to Save our Antibiotics have produced a report calling for Government to protect public health and take a stronger stance against using antibiotics too much on farms. The US, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, which are all in trade negotiations with the UK, allow farmers to give antibiotics to livestock to make them grow ...

Dec. 2, 2020

By Soil Association

The Cool Farm Alliance joins the Regenagri governance team

Regenagri is a regenerative agriculture initiative launched in 2020 with the goal to secure the health of agricultural land and the wealth of those who live on it. Via its Digital Hub and continuous improvement framework, regenagri supports farms and organisations to transition to holistic farming techniques that increase soil organic matter, encourage biodiversity, sequester CO2 and improve ...

Nov. 11, 2020

By Cool Farm Tool (CFT)

FQSA and ASF Support Quebec Government in regulating salmon egg import

The Quebec Atlantic Salmon Federation (Fédération québécoise pour le saumon atlantique – FQSA) is pleased with the measures instituted by Quebec’s department of forestry, wildlife and parks, i.e. the Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs (MFFP). Since June 10th of this year, the resulting amendment of section 28 of the Regulation ...

Oct. 20, 2020

By Atlantic Salmon Federation (ASF)

Bluegrove acquires SEALAB

Bluegrove, with its subsidiary CageEye AS, has acquired fellow aquatech company SEALAB to combine their sensor technologies and create an open platform for integration with other suppliers. “By bringing together two of the world leaders in aquaculture sensor technology, we will deliver solutions that improve the welfare of farmed fish and raise productivity levels in the salmon farming ...

Aug. 27, 2020

By NorseAqua

Sprayers Fede supports winegrowers with special discounts on sprayers

Sprayers Fede shows its commitment to winegrowers by activating a special program of discounts and offers in order to facilitate their economic recovery after the health crisis of COVID-19. This campaign aimed at wineries and grape producers is motivated by the sharp drop in sales that the sector experienced during the state of alarm due to the closure of bars and restaurants. ...

Jul. 14, 2020

By Pulverizadores Fede SL

The county promotes the utilization of livestock and poultry manure resources

In 2020, in addition to combating the epidemic situation, for my country's breeding industry, the key to promote in addition to the restoration of pig production capacity is the utilization of livestock and poultry manure resources! my country is a big country for livestock and poultry farming, and ecological and environmental protection is a necessary condition for the development of animal ...

Jul. 7, 2020

By Beijing Yingherui Environmental Technology Co., Ltd.

An autonomous robot that eliminates downy and powdery mildew overnight

Robot Thorvald has passed its final tests on Chardonnay with flying colours. This spring, it went through the rows of vines and projected its ultraviolet rays on the leaves to eliminate powdery and downy mildew completely autonomously. To successfully suppress the fungal diseases, it had to work by night. “What makes it possible for us to use UV to control these plant pathogens is we ...

Jul. 1, 2020

By Saga Robotics

New High Density for Large Fruit Plantations

The High Density is a sprayer designed to carry out localized treatments, transferring the usual proximity of vineyard applications to other crops such as apple trees, pear trees and other fruit trees in the “trellis” plantation model, and also in the super-intensive olive and almond crops, among others. This sprayer allows efficient and precise spraying, which saves approximately 40% ...

Jun. 22, 2020

By Pulverizadores Fede SL

A Growing Culture of Soil Health

On the latest episode of our Dirt Rich podcast series, Theresa Keaveny calls up Troy Daniell, NRCS State Conservationist. Personally, I really enjoyed listening to their conversation unfold on soil health work in Minnesota, the role livestock play, and land healing and resilience. An ecologist by training and passion, he says “we’ve always got to be in a healing mode, because ...

Jun. 16, 2020

By Sustainable Farming Association of Minnesota

Railway Sleepers, Reinforced Concrete Or Vineyard Poles: Now Recovering Means Monetizing

There are materials some operators consider “difficult” to dispose of; these materials often pile up for years and take up space. Old light poles, columns, and concrete pipes, railway sleepers, vineyard poles with spring steel: these objects seem to be more complicated and expensive to recycle than others. Construction sites that adopted MB Crusher units found an easy and ...

Jun. 4, 2020

By MB Crusher