Energy & Sustainability
Source: HD.com Creating more precise lighting controls for greenhouse growers Thanks! Connext 916 goes a step further and gives you the opportunity to shape the full spectrum, color by color, at the right moment, exactly to the crop needs," said René Hofman, Product Manager Connext. © Priva BV Consistent
Market Intelligence
Source: VFD.com vGreens raises two million euros for AI-controlled plant cultivation The Essen-based technology company vGreens has completed a financing round of approximately two million euros. The company, founded in 2022, plans to use the capital to roll out its combination of sensor technology and AI software for closed-loop
Nutrients & Substrate
Source: HD.com "Plants do not respond to isolated values of temperature, light, or humidity, but rather to the balance between the energy they receive and the energy they consume to grow, respire, and produce." © Canna.biz RTR over time The scientific link between radiation and temperature has
Facility Design
Source: HD.com Throughout the last lustrum, the company renewed almost 25 hectares of older greenhouses into high-tech, automated, modern facilities. © Floratom © Floratom Domestic and international sales Floratom currently operates 31 hectares in total and stands as one of the four major greenhouse operators in the country. The company expanded
Controls & Automation
Source: Instrumentation and Control Engineering Doubles Quadruples Increases by 2 times No change Explanation: Flow ∝ √ΔP √(16/4) = √4 = 2 Flow doubles, not quadruples Common mistake is assuming linear relation Explanation: Flow ∝ √ΔP √(16/4) = √4 = 2 Flow doubles, not quadruples Common mistake is assuming linear relation 23 / 25 Specific
Energy & Sustainability
Source: VFD.com An initial reaction might be: "That makes sense, because you save more than 2,000 km of truck transport." Yet the situation is not that straightforward. Assuming an average diesel consumption of 40 liters per 100 km for a 15-ton refrigerated truck transporting lettuce from
Controls & Automation
Source: HD.com Day 1 agenda released for the Leafy Hydroponics Summit 2026 Thanks! Hydroponic and controlled environment systems have become key tools in addressing these challenges, offering greater control over crop conditions and enabling year-round production closer to consumers. Success is no longer defined by individual technologies alone, but
Nutrients & Substrate
Source: HD.com On the one hand, Agrogestia works as an ERP specialized in agricultural production, capable of managing human resources, harvesting, machinery, or inventories, while Knitink Technology focuses on sensorization, irrigation, and fertigation, meaning the agronomic execution in the field." The integration is designed as a bidirectional system
Controls & Automation
Source: VFD.com At the facilities of Infinite Acres, a Dutch‑American subsidiary of the vertical farming company 80 Acres Farms, agriculture becomes an engineering project: Biology, climate technology, automation, and data analytics all interlock. This is where SICK's Multi Physics Box MPB10 comes into play. The condition-monitoring
Facility Design
Source: VFD.com WAN Awards 2026 Future Projects for desert growing project Thanks! A network of greenhouses and vertical farm systems, the complex produces 2,500 metric tons of food annually and shows how a building can operate as infrastructure and civic architecture. © Andre Kikoski Architecture "Thank you World
Nutrients & Substrate
Source: HD.com Physical consistency in growing media affects water retention curves, aeration, and root-zone stability, thereby shaping predictable crop outcomes. As Alexandre Lambert of Lambert Peat Moss emphasises, "consistent crop performance starts with a reliable foundation." Lambert Peat Moss continues to focus on peat-based growing media designed
Energy & Sustainability
Source: VFD.com Up to 50% of a strawberry plant's sale price goes towards transport We've been manufacturing vertical farming technology that allows growers to produce consistent, quality, and uniform plants in a repeatable, predictable fashion for over a decade now. For many commercial strawberry growers