Cultivate 2026: New varieties, familiar faces and greenhouse projects still on the horizon

Grownetics

14 Jul 2026 — 2 min read

Cultivate 2026: New varieties, familiar faces and greenhouse projects still on the horizon Thanks! And at least as many evenings: the show is characterized by its many side events, giving suppliers, growers, and everybody else the opportunity to connect for almost 16 hours a day (although we're pretty sure not everybody manages to get eight hours of sleep).

Notable is the attention to sustainability, reflected in the new resistant varieties being launched and in plants that are naturally more compact, requiring less intervention to limit stretching. As at earlier industry events, we can talk about cautious optimism—or, as others would say more directly, "the quotations are there; now we just need them to become projects." Renovations and system upgrades continue, but the large-scale new builds, primarily in the vegetable industry, are still being heavily awaited.

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Why does substrate sensing matter in free-drain strawberry systems?

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What is the operator takeaway from this trial?

If the thresholds are understood well enough, growers can reduce drain water materially while protecting yield and fruit quality, which makes sensing an operational tool instead of a reporting tool.

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