HortiDaily Newsletter | Tuesday, April 27, 2021

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Arlette Sijmonsma Email Elita Vellekoop Email Eelkje Pulley Email Priscilla Heeffer Email Annet Breure Email  Job Offers Head Grower - Telangana, India Grafting production manager - Italy Experienced Cultivation Manager - Italy Manager R&D Specialist Watertechniek Glastuinbouw - Canada Assistant Manager Operations - Burnaby (BC) Canada Technical Sales Manager - China Construction Project Manager - Tri-State (CT, NY, NJ) USA Private Equity Associate - San Francisco (CA) USA Quality Manager "We are striving to start the British season earlier, without using gas fuelled greenhouses" As one of the biggest soft fruit producers in the United Kingdom, the team at Hall Hunter is always looking for new ways of growing and innovations that grow their market and… Vacancies: Head Grower - Telangana, India Ellepot and PlantPaper join forces in merger Ellepot and PlantPaper are joining forces to form the Ellepot Group on a mission to reduce the use of plastics in the plant propagation process by providing… hurricane resistant Island Growers Barbados phase 1 greenhouse completed Alquimi Renewables and its farming operations group Island Growers Caribbean, announce the completion of the first 100% climate-smart and Category 5 hurricane resistant… Concerns over humidity leads growers to doubt extra energy saving screen Growers want to save energy, but also have an optimal greenhouse climate as well as production and quality of their product. That is why they think it is still too early to… "Pay attention to the operating mechanism of products to prevent resistance" As a grower, you would rather not have any pests in your greenhouse at all. Luckily there are products you can use in case you do have to deal with such a situation. But what… Leon Ammerlaan, geothermal energy pioneer: "Growers can help make the Netherlands more sustainable" Pleasant living, sports and learning with warmth from greenhouse horticulture. That is possible, those in greenhouse horticulture are convinced. As part of Earth Day,… Making fertilizers based on water and air Using nitrogen and oxygen to clean water, and then using the new compounds as fertilizer. It sounds too good to be true, but the company VitalFluid developed a method that… Four new team members for Holland Scherming The Holland Scherming team has recently expanded considerably. With Ramon Bruers, Michiel de Zeeuw, Mike van den Bos and Ismail Saris on board, the company can continue to… Plans for aquaponics project in Belgian port of Ostend Columbi Salmon aims to harvest 12,000 tonnes of salmon and 4,000 tonnes of salad leaves a year by 2025, at a site in the Belgian port of Ostend. Kolbjørn… Study on rapid and sensitive detection of ToBRFV in tomato and pepper seeds Tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV) represents an emerging viral threat to the productivity of tomato and pepper protected cultivation worldwide. This… Grower and sales organisation celebrates successful year-round cucumber sales Last Friday, Leon Duijvesteijn of The Greenery Growers presented a new-style growers' board to Kees Hendriks and Stefan Wubben of Qcumber Optimize Nature in Pijnacker. The… Free AgriPlace Chain webinar, Thursday, 13 May How do Berryworld, Fairtrasa, Kölla digitize and automate their chain's quality data? Since the end of 2019, the AgriPlace Chain digital platform has been broadly introduced. That's within the Dutch and Belgian fruit and vegetable trade. It's now making inroads… purerudi.com Rare Russian plant to be grown in Maryland smart farm greenhouses Pure Rudi, LLC. announces their partnership with a local Maryland smart farm greenhouse run by the Bauer brothers. The two companies have been working together to produce the… Food Bio Cluster Denmark From growing cucumbers on the balcony to an indoor farm in Copenhagen In a former auto repair shop in the outskirts of Copenhagen, a farm has found its unlikely grounds. Fresh coriander, pea sprouts and edible flowers are grown on the vertical… Special Packaging FPC Future announces speakers at conference sessions on robotics in horticulture. The session on Robotics and Automation – Post-farm Gate at FPC Future on 4 November will look at the technology being introduced that can facilitate earlier labeling and… New paperboard punnet Fiber-based packaging leader Graphic Packaging International is pleased to announce the launch of its ProducePack™ Punnet, an innovative paperboard alternative to plastic… Transporting less air, more vegetables NL: New, sustainable, customized snack veggie packaging In the Netherlands, several types of new packaging have been developed by Verstappen Advanced Packaging, Bakker Barendrecht, and their vegetable growers. The focus is on… Randy Paulson / nwest Sibley greenhouse gets new managers River Kelly and Zayda Elbuytari have known each other since kindergarten and later graduated from the same high school and college. The couple's most recent adventure in the… Photo by Farm Nevertheless Designer-turned-farmer tells importance of soil through tomato farming story There are farmers who produce the finest quality crops through knowledge of the soil, says Won Seung-hyun, 37, who has been running a tomato farm in Yeongwol, Gangwon… Shelley Barak, Ishence "Demand for higher quality cannabis is growing, and customers are willing to pay a higher price for that" As the cannabis market gets more mature and consumers get savvier, the demand for high-quality cannabis increases. "We are seeing that new patients are added on a monthly basis, and with that also the demand for higher quality cannabis has been growing," says Shelley Barak with Ishence. "And customers are willing to pay a… Study on new trends in enhanced, hybrid and integrated geothermal systems The most important challenge for the global energy sector is to rapidly transform the entire system to one less dependent on fossil fuels and so reduce the… Scientists urge EU to allow the use of novel breeding techniques and modern biotechnology in organic farming Unless the European Union allows novel breeding techniques such as gene editing in organic agriculture, Europe's Farm to Fork strategy will likely fail to deliver on its… Prominent Alabamians visit Second Chances farm On February 28, Lee Harrison, co-owner of a small, indoor vertical farm in Hokes Bluff, Alabama, traveled to Wilmington, Del. to see Second Chances Farm in action, especially… Ontario's industrial conservation initiative re-starts May 1st Ontario electricity consumers participating in the Industrial Conservation Initiative (ICI) will need to take action again soon to keep their percentages and… Azerbaijani company to export tomatoes to Belarus and Ukraine Azerbaijan's Agro Norm company has signed contracts with a Belarusian company and a Ukrainian supermarket chain for the export of tomato products worth… Credit: Lori Valigra / BDN Maine farm that uses fish poop to grow crops year-round is expanding "We always need a back-up plan because nothing can go wrong" A Lisbon farm plans to add 500,ooo square feet of greenhouse operations over the next six years and defy doubters who don't believe its style of year-round growing, which uses… intake open April 22, 2021 New Ontario enhanced agri-food workplace protection program The Enhanced Agri-food Workplace Protection Program Intake opened on April 22, 2021 for the new, $10 million Enhanced Agri-food Workplace Protection Program to… Gary Klein / USA today network - Wisconsin Grow It Forward continues expansion with new greenhouse The success of Grow It Forward just keeps growing new roots and fresh blooms. The nonprofit, which runs a community garden, kitchen and food pantry, now has added a greenhouse… Photo by Amin Falakdoust Iran minister of agriculture positive about Iran's vegetable production In an interview, the Director General of the Office of Greenhouses, Ornamental Plants and Edible Mushrooms, stated: "Production forecast of vegetables and summer and fruits… Today on social media Ibis Nájera Montiel . Mangaluru: Agriculture research centre at Ullal becomes role model in state Agriculture and horticulture departments of the government address the issues faced by farmers. In addition, they also cooperate with the farmers for… US (PA): Hydrofarm to acquire nutrient maker for $78.1M Hydrofarm has entered into an agreement to acquire Field 16, the manufacturer and distributor of Heavy 16, a line of plant nutrients.  "As a leading hydroponics company, a key component… Greenhouse strawberry season Ukraine started two weeks later than last year The Ukrainian greenhouse strawberry season started two weeks later than in 2020, in line with earlier forecasts. Today, producers of the southern regions of… VerticalFarmDaily.com Six CEA trends to watch The development of CEA is growing at an exponential rate, further fuelled by the pandemic which has brought a renewed focus on food security and has served as a stark reminder… Graham Eardley - Eardley International "Work and stress levels have gone up and added extra costs to a supply chain" It is now almost four months since the Brexit regulations came into force and one UK haulier said it has been a very difficult few months. "Yes, there have been improvements… Henk van Doorne, Van Doorne Imex, the Netherlands: "Lettuce market improves slightly, first greenhouse fennel available next week" One swallow doesn't make a summer. But yesterday, Henk van Doorne of Van Doorne Imex did hear these birds chirping for the first time this year. They're back in his barn in… University of Wyoming research Farmer's market coupon programs for low-income people can improve fruit and veg consumption A study done by the University of Wyoming and a food justice non-profit seems to indicate that farmers market coupon programs for low-income people can improve… Monkey selling vegetables goes viral A recent video of a monkey 'selling vegetables' has gone viral, bringing a smile to many faces all over the world. In the video, that is doing the rounds on… USDA U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement Seasonal Perishable Products Weekly Update Labor shortages continue to manifest in higher prices for consumers Labor shortages continue across all sectors of the food service industry, manifesting in higher prices for consumers as employers compete to hire and keep employees. Signs… Saudi Arabia bans fruit and vegetable imports from Lebanon On Friday, Saudi Arabia announced an import ban on fruits and vegetables from Lebanon. The reason given was that the Saudi kingdom said shipments are being… Funny Snowplough Unsubscribe Copyright (C) 2021 Hortidaily.