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Source: HD.com The facility has enabled FreFarm to produce high-quality cucumber seedlings year-round, with greater control over their quality and availability and less risk of introducing pests, diseases and viruses from external suppliers. FreFarm has grown cucumbers for the past four years in its 1.6-hectare
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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.
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Source: HD.com As part of a broader effort to build a plant gene library, Zhao uses advanced biotechnologies to identify, map and predict genetic traits, laying the groundwork for crops with improved resilience, yield and market value. His current project, supported in part by USDA's National Institute
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Source: VFD.com By growing plants in multiple layers stacked on top of each other, the system aims to make more intensive use of available space than a conventional cultivation setup. Each tower rotates slowly, ensuring that all plants receive the same light and climate conditions in turn. The research
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Source: HD.com 1 in Dallas Greenhouse and high tunnel growers looking for the latest tools to manage pests and diseases can hear directly from experts at a symposium hosted by Texas A&M AgriLife set for Oct. The Integrated Pest and Pathogen Management Symposium for Controlled Environment Agriculture
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Source: VFD.com Trade-offs between yield, physiological performance, and quality in hydroponically grown basil Thanks! The experiment was conducted in Switzerland characterized by a continental climate with Mediterranean influences, to compare successive harvests across two setups: an indoor, high-density hydroponic VF system (fully controlled microclimate) and a conventional
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Source: VFD.com Thus, the dose-dependent effects of liquid vermicompost on growth, yield, physiological performance were evaluated, along with the ionic balance of lettuce cultivated in a floating hydroponic system under 50 mM sodium chloride stress. A greenhouse experiment was conducted using a randomized complete block design with three
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Source: HD.com In the 2026 trial, used substrate was collected together with plant residues from the previous crop, shredded and treated using SoilSteam technology. The treated material was then reused as 100% of the growing medium for a new crop of the strawberry variety Sonsation. Fresh substrate produced a
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Source: VFD.com BioScout already operates the world's largest fungal detection network in agriculture, with more than 250 sensors active across five continents. To combat these diseases, growers and farmers worldwide spend around $25 billion annually on crop protection products. BioScout aims to change that with SporeScout, a
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Source: VFD.com "This is mostly a monitoring tool," says Daniel Bånkestad, R&D Manager at Heliospectra, describing the fluorescence sensor at the centre of this approach. "It's protective mechanisms that the plant uses to protect itself when it absorbs excess light, excess energy.
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Source: VFD.com This study aims to develop a compact and reliable farm monitoring system that improves water efficiency, enhances system stability and supports scalable deployment through a PCB-based integrated hardware architecture. To achieve this, an automated farm monitoring controller was designed and implemented using an ESP32 microcontroller integrated
Energy & Sustainability
Source: HD.com The industry benchmark for commercial greenhouse ventilation is 1 air exchange per minute, which means your fan capacity should equal the total interior volume of the structure. Standard target is 0.75 to 1.0 air exchanges per minute, though controlled-environment hydroponic setups in multi-span