Business & Operations
Source: HD.com 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&
Business & Operations
Source: VFD.com Agriculture students are exploring what can replace commercial fertilisers in controlled growing conditions, while their wildlife ecology peers are using the same system to model what certain forage plants might look like nutritionally in twenty or fifty years' time, under elevated CO2 levels. One piece of
Crop Science
Source: HD.com Relative humidity, meanwhile, influences both transpiration and the onset of fungal diseases, meaning that monitoring it makes it easier to adjust ventilation or misting systems to reduce health risks without compromising the greenhouse's environmental balance," explain the team at SNIC, a company specializing in
Business & Operations
Source: HD.com The Department of Agriculture-funded facility in Ilocos Region, measuring 15 m by 13.6 m, can hold 24,576 vegetable seedlings in 128-hole trays or 20,160 in 105-hole trays, plus fruit tree seedlings depending on size, according to the Office of the Provincial
Market Intelligence
Source: VFD.com Hippo Harvest closes $30 million Series C to scale robotic indoor growing technology Thanks! Hippo Harvest closes $30 million Series C to scale robotic indoor growing technology Leafy greens grower Hippo Harvest has announced the close of a $30 million Series C funding round led by Cox
Business & Operations
Source: VFD.com ADOPT, which promotes collaborative practice and knowledge-sharing across the UK agriculture sector, has backed the project as a model for how smaller controlled environment agriculture (CEA) operators can improve operational efficiency and resilience through shared technology. The deployment is running across Harvest London's Canada
Business & Operations
Source: VFD.com As growers strive to maximize yields and maintain consistency throughout the year, having access to accurate, actionable data is essential for understanding how conditions influence plant performance. An upcoming webinar from LI-COR will explore how monitoring key variables, including solar radiation, photosynthetic photon flux density (PPFD)
Nutrients & Substrate
Source: HD.com When grow bags are placed directly on the ground, or in makeshift setups, each irrigation leaves part of the management process uncontrolled: drainage is lost, moisture accumulates, walkways become dirtier, recirculation capacity is reduced, and the system becomes less suited to precise operation. Second, a poorly drained
Controls & Automation
Source: HD.com By bringing wireless sensor data from Aranet directly into the Ridder platform, growers now benefit from a single, central environment for monitoring and analyzing key climate and crop parameters. This integration enables growers to collect, visualize, and analyze all important greenhouse and crop data in one central
Business & Operations
Source: VFD.com Airmaster for application in short-day crops: "The spiral was the answer" Controlling pathogens and unwanted odors in the greenhouse remains a persistent challenge for growers. The Airmaster, an air purification system developed by German company O3Tech, has long been used to improve air quality
Business & Operations
Source: VFD.com BetiLife expands North American B2B focus with 7-gallon RDWC hydroponic systems Hydroponic equipment brand BetiLife is strengthening its North American B2B strategy with a focused product line of 7-Gallon / 27L Recirculating Deep Water Culture (RDWC) hydroponic systems designed for retailers, distributors, commercial growers, and e-
Energy & Sustainability
Source: HD.com Understanding greenhouse environmental control systems As energy and labor costs continue to rise, greenhouse and high tunnel growers are increasingly interested in automating their heating, cooling and ventilation with environmental control systems. Here are some of the most common questions that we get from growers that are