Energy & Sustainability
Source: HD.com Italy: Greenhouses and photovoltaics, from Sicily the new model for green agriculture Thanks! The first agri-voltaic plant in Italy based on Serra Archimede® technology, built by Bee srl and designed by the Regran Group and financed by Banca Agricola Popolare di Sicilia with a 1.1 million
Energy & Sustainability
Source: HD.com Creating more precise lighting controls for greenhouse growers Thanks! Connext 916 goes a step further and gives you the opportunity to shape the full spectrum, color by color, at the right moment, exactly to the crop needs," said René Hofman, Product Manager Connext. © Priva BV Consistent
Energy & Sustainability
Source: VFD.com An initial reaction might be: "That makes sense, because you save more than 2,000 km of truck transport." Yet the situation is not that straightforward. Assuming an average diesel consumption of 40 liters per 100 km for a 15-ton refrigerated truck transporting lettuce from
Energy & Sustainability
Source: VFD.com Up to 50% of a strawberry plant's sale price goes towards transport We've been manufacturing vertical farming technology that allows growers to produce consistent, quality, and uniform plants in a repeatable, predictable fashion for over a decade now. For many commercial strawberry growers
Crop Science
Source: HD.com This technology has demonstrated notable results in countries like Japan, where tomato growers observed a 1.4% yield increase for each 1% of additional interlighting, with some reporting up to 25% higher yields compared to greenhouses lacking supplemental lighting. Since its initial adoption in 2013, more than
Energy & Sustainability
Source: VFD.com Thanks to the result and the trust these growers have in the procedure, we can now observe practical outcomes directly in growers' operations, not just in a research setting." © Arlette Sijmonsma | VerticalFarmDaily.com The process on location The steaming took place using a mobile installation
Energy & Sustainability
Source: HD.com I think this balance between innovation and continuity is the biggest challenge we face every day." © Marta del Moral Arroyo | HortiDaily.com Samuel Chavez, Victoire Thery, Carmen González, and Nematini Aguirre, Filclair, at Greentech Americas 2026 Growers managing Her appointment comes at a time when
Controls & Automation
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,
Controls & Automation
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,
Energy & Sustainability
Source: HD.com Finding synergies between dehumidification and hermetic screens As energy prices continue to fluctuate and sustainability targets tighten, greenhouse growers are increasingly turning to advanced climate-control technologies to reduce energy consumption. This article highlights two of these technologies, modern dehumidification systems and hermetic screens, and how they work
Energy & Sustainability
Source: HD.com Hasan Burak Macit, Sales and Marketing Manager at Turkish propagator İrgeler, explains the rationale: "Although the region is situated at an altitude of 900 metres and is one of Turkey's colder areas, we chose it because the amount of sunshine is virtually the same
Energy & Sustainability
Source: VFD.com Improving energy efficiency for vertical growers While smart vertical farms enable stable year-round crop production by efficiently utilizing urban spaces, they face economic limitations due to high energy consumption and operational costs. To this end, an integrated time-series dataset was constructed using environmental data (temperature, humidity, soil