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Source: VFD.com Innovation day highlights advanced automation and future pathways for Irish growers A Mushroom Innovation Day, hosted by Teagasc Horticulture Development Department, took place on Wednesday, 6 May at the Ashtown Research Centre in Dublin. It brought together growers, researchers, and technology providers to explore the future of
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Source: HD.com The company, which recently launched its Harvester robot for tomato greenhouses, believes fully autonomous operation is essential to solving the structural labour shortages facing protected horticulture. "Our ambition is getting to a fully automated greenhouse where crop work is done by robots, while human labour is
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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
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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
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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
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Source: VFD.com Sign up for our daily Newsletter and stay up to date with all the latest news! Vertical options draw youth to growing in South Korea When the container door, an automated vertical farm in Geumgu-myeon, Gimje-si, Jeollabuk-do, was opened, about 2,200 basil were placed on a
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Source: HD.com Calculating ROI as a greenhouse grower As input costs rise and margins tighten, greenhouse operations are increasingly judged not just on yield, but on how efficiently they generate returns. At its simplest, greenhouse ROI is calculated by dividing net profit by total investment cost — but in practice,
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Source: HD.com In practice, this means incorporating a control unit capable of collecting data continuously, every few minutes, and acting on parameters previously defined by the farmer himself, integrating both control of the greenhouse's moving elements and monitoring of environmental conditions and crop status." Francisco Gutiérrez,
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Source: HD.com Higher tech greenhouse for cucumber production in El Ejido The transformation of the production model in southeast Spain is moving steadily towards increasingly technified systems, where climate control, resource efficiency and data driven decision making make the difference. During a visit to Agrolíder's production facilities,
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Source: VFD.com Singapore: Vertical farming comes to NTUC FairPrice outlets Indoor Farm Factory Innovation (I.F.F.I), in partnership with Siemens, has introduced mobile vertical farming racks at selected NTUC FairPrice outlets in Singapore, bringing locally grown fresh produce directly to consumers at the retail level. The vertical
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Source: HD.com Hortiplan brings automated growing solutions to growers worldwide Belgian company Hortiplan, based in Sint-Katelijne-Waver, designs and installs automated cultivation systems for professional growers around the world. "We want to use our innovative, tailor-made solutions to raise the horticultural sector to a higher technological level globally."
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Source: HD.com Using water more efficiently to enhance strawberry crops This study aimed to develop an automated irrigation system for substrate-grown strawberry plants and to evaluate whether irrigation and biostimulation levels influence yield and fruit quality. Six biostimulants were assessed [control (without biostimulation), microalga Spirulina platensis (SP), mycorrhiza Scutellospora