Maurits Jacobs

Due to El Niño, the yearly warm ocean current appearing along the Peruvian coast around December, Peruvian blueberry production is down by more than 50%, leaving a gap in the world markets,…

When Guillermo DiGiuseppe, horticultural manager at the New Zealand berry farm Season Farms, observed that his production was being negatively affected by high summer temperatures, he…

Boray Pipe and Profile Inc. has recently introduced their new ternary alloy-coated steel, BorMag (94.5% Zn-3% Mg-2.5% Al). The steel was designed to elevate the reliability and durability of…

Back in 2017, Grow Director was established, and they released their first-generation sensor, a type of all-in-one controller, to automate the cultivation process. It was a great solution for home growers, but it still left a lot to be desired for larger-scale cultivation. The second generation was more robust, yet something was still missing. With the third generation, they had finally cracked the code, but they wanted to improve further. This brings us to now, as Grow Director is on their way to introducing their latest features: a grow book for growers and true self-learning AI.

MSC Invernaderos has been working on greenhouse projects all over the world for over 30 years and has had successful projects in nearly 70 countries. Having a long history with projects in tropical areas, it remains an area of expertise for them, and they have just concluded their latest Tropical Greenhouse project in the Caribbean.

It's not a secret that many high-tech greenhouse projects in China failed in recent years. Abandoned greenhouses aren't hard to find, and entrance to the market comes with difficult challenges to overcome. Because of this, a private company in China, Lankuaikei Agriculture Development, proposed a Ph.D. research at the WUR in the Netherlands to look at these issues and research the economic feasibility of these types of projects. A total of 3 Ph.D. positions were to be filled on the topics of open-field crop modeling, greenhouse crop and climate modeling, and economic modeling of high-tech greenhouse systems, the latter being filled by Xinyuan Min.

Classic crop management for farmers has been mainly aimed at three areas: irrigation, nutrition, and crop protection. These are important, but according to Jose Nolasco, the Head of Research…

Three decades ago, the Jones family farm nestled on Lake Erie in rural Ohio, where it thrived under patriarch Bob Jones, Sr. Nowadays, it's brothers Lee and Bob Jr. who are at the helm, but…

Mabre has been supplying the agricultural sector with heating and ventilation equipment for 50 years now and hasn't been sitting still in that time. They have been looking to become more…

Climate First recently launched their second delegation of Israeli climate tech startups visiting the UK for their UK Roadshow, which happens in the final week of the company's eight-week…