Business & Operations
Source: VFD.com Agtira and Öresundskraft enter electricity partnership: "Electricity is one of the largest cost items in cultivation" Agtira AB's subsidiary Pepino Växthus has signed an agreement with Öresundskraft regarding the IndustriFlex flexibility service for the greenhouse facility in Påarp outside Helsingborg. When the new
Controls & Automation
Source: HD.com "Growers want the freedom to choose the technologies that best fit their operation" Thanks! The integration enables growers to connect Quantified's wireless sensor data with Ridder's process automation solutions, bringing critical data together in one central platform. © Ridder Climate Screens Quantified&
Business & Operations
Source: VFD.com This study evaluates the techno-economic potential of an optical-fiber daylighting system designed to transport concentrated sunlight directly to the crop growing zones of a vertical farm. By distributing daylight across all rack shelves and limiting heat gains through a UV-IR filter, it reduced electricity
Business & Operations
Source: HD.com Pith-to-chip ratio, container or slab dimensions, crop-cycle length, irrigation frequency, drainage design, and desired dry-back all influence the appropriate specification. The aim is a repeatable balance that matches the crop's root volume and the frequency and volume of irrigation events."
Business & Operations
Source: HD.com Tomatoes and cucumbers accounted for most of the greenhouse area, covering 2.8 million and 2.1 million square meters respectively. Turkestan Region was the largest greenhouse production area, with almost 900,000 square meters planted with cucumbers and 1.2 million square meters with tomatoes. Shymkent
Business & Operations
Source: VFD.com This paper presents a systematic review of 208 peer-reviewed studies from 2015 to 2025. It explores how AI, ML, and IoT are applied across the VF ecosystem, focusing on key areas such as computer vision for disease detection, crop growth and yield prediction, smart climate control,
Controls & Automation
Source: VFD.com Smartwell's controlled environment agriculture platform is not a simple greenhouse monitoring system, but an intelligent agricultural operating framework built around "sensing, AI models, decision-making, execution, and feedback." The system continuously analyzes crop status inside the greenhouse using sensors, environmental data, crop imagery,
Nutrients & Substrate
Source: HD.com © Marzieh Zahedi Recirculated drain water and nutrient stability Marzieh describes the reuse of drainage water to reduce water and fertilizer losses, while noting the potential for changes in nutrient composition. "To prevent loss of water and fertilizers, we reuse the drain water in the irrigation system,
Business & Operations
Source: HD.com The greenhouse is always full and always turning over because planting and harvesting are both happening daily. Assuming the production runs as it should, lettuce could take as little as ~20 days to go from a young plant to a harvested head on its way to a
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Source: VFD.com Grain yields across the continent are estimated to be 10–15% lower, while France is facing its lowest maize harvest in decades and Romania has lost more than one million hectares of maize. High temperatures during sensitive growth stages can reduce yields even where irrigation is available,
Controls & Automation
Source: VFD.com At the same time, the potential for increased automation is significant, particularly through better use of data, sensors, and artificial intelligence. The path forward has two parts: (1) automating the most structured tasks, and (2) developing flexible robotic systems that can handle biological variation. The latter in
Business & Operations
Source: HD.com Up to 50 per cent drop in endive volumes at Dirk Declercq’s farm “At times, it was touch and go whether we would have enough water” Curly endive cultivation has suffered severely this summer due to the extreme weather conditions. Prolonged heat, high evaporation rates, and