Business & Operations
Source: VFD.com "Over the last two years, the quality of Spain's peppers has really taken a hit." "That's mainly because some greenhouses were damaged, plus there's been some winter storms, so the retailers don't have a lot of
Business & Operations
Source: VFD.com If you were looking for a news article, then it may have been deleted or moved. Why this matters: For operators, this is a water-management story. The useful signal is that direct substrate measurements can help cut drain loss materially without giving up yield or fruit
Business & Operations
Source: HD.com Even so, greenhouses periodically discard the water and start again with a fresh mixture. The aim is to bring these steps together in a robust, relatively inexpensive device that can be connected to existing greenhouse irrigation systems. The plan is to connect the system to the digital
Facility Design
Source: HD.com Over the last 30 days, Griffin has added 20 new sales professionals across its divisions, expanding the company's ability to support professional growers, retailers, controlled-environment agriculture operations, and specialty markets. The new team members strengthen Griffin's presence across the Great Lakes, Midwest,
Business & Operations
Source: HD.com According to Alejandro Fernández, CEO of Botmotics, the recognition system is built on a neural network trained on approximately 105,000 images of weeds and cultivated plants, from which it learns to distinguish which vegetation should be removed within a horticultural plot. "In doing so, we
Energy & Sustainability
Source: HD.com Irrigation and viral diseases challenge Ukraine’s small greenhouse growers Thanks! Farms accounting for 29% of the surveyed greenhouse area identified irrigation difficulties as their main obstacle to development. War-related risks ranked second at 26%, followed by high energy costs at 24%. According to the study&
Facility Design
Source: HD.com Keaton brings more than 20 years of experience in the construction and commercial greenhouse industries, including over a decade focused on greenhouse design, sales, business development, and project development. Throughout his career, he has worked closely with growers, greenhouse manufacturers, builders, distributors, and industry partners across North
Energy & Sustainability
Source: VFD.com We developed and validated a 3D computational ray-tracing model to create a digital twin of a rotating vertical farm in a greenhouse. The model was validated against empirical microclimate data (R2 = 0.88) and deployed to optimise both static (orientation) and dynamic (rotation) parameters. A separate
Crop Science
Source: VFD.com The Strawberry School Online, presented by Ohio State University, offers all the keys to learn soilless production of strawberry under greenhouse and indoor controlled environment. Contents include strawberry physiology, cultivar selection, production practices, and systems. Instructors for the course are Professor Chieri Kubota and lecturer Mark Kroggel.
Controls & Automation
Source: HD.com HortEx Vietnam 2027 aims to capitalize on horticultural sectors momentum Thanks! Vietnam's fruit and vegetable exports reached a record value of approximately US$8.5 billion in 2025, nearly 18% more than in 2024. This strong momentum continued in 2026: during the first five months
Business & Operations
Source: VFD.com The Sendot Sample Station is designed to get more out of the technology and to prevent the scanner from sitting idle. If a plate is measured every two hours, the scanner is active for about two minutes and then sits idle for 118 minutes. Without automation, most
Business & Operations
Source: HD.com The company serves commercial horticulture and agriculture with greenhouse infrastructure, growing media, irrigation, plastics, nursery supplies and technical solutions. Quality-controlled growing media Growing media is a key part of GHTech's product portfolio. "Our substrates may not be the cheapest, but definitely the best