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Great Lakes Growers wants to change the way people buy and think about salad. The hydroponic greens and herbs operation is capitalizing on changing consumer tastes and sending its products straight to customers’ doorsteps with a new initiative called Great Lakes Growers Express

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Career Opportunity: Head Hydroponics Grower - Grand Rapids, Michigan

M&F Talent has a client in CEA crop production that is looking to onboard a new Head Grower. The position will focus on the commercial production of leafy greens and herbs in hydroponics systems

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Competitors Join Forces to Push The Industry Forward

“FarmRoadTM was conceived to fulfil two broad purposes. A platform for autonomous farming and secondly as a way of bringing together all disparate technologies that farmers use into one unified management tool,” explains Darryn

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NatureFreshTM Farms Takes Home Accolades for Best Overall Pepper, Tomato & Cucumber at Leamington Greenhouse Vegetable Awards

The Tomato Capital of Canada, Leamington, Ontario, hosted its annual Greenhouse Vegetable Awards this past weekend at the Leamington Fair

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Can Giant Greenhouses Help Feed Consumers? AppHarvest Wants to Find Out

Its 60-acre facility is expected to open in Kentucky in 2020 with crops that are non-GMO, chemical-free and watered by the rain

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Wageningen University Proves Viability of Fluence by OSRAM LEDs

Dr. Heuvelink, and his team at WUR, tested PhysioSpec Greenhouse in comparison to HPS lighting from a recognized vendor. The research was conducted on Tomagino and Merlice tomato cultivars. WUR will publish the full data set later this year

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Is The United States "Under Greenhoused"?

Peter Tasgal: The author is a consultant focused on the agriculture space with previous experience as CFO and board member of a $100 million CPG business headquartered in Montreal, Canada prior to which he was an investment banker for over 10 years.

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Waste Heat From Berlin Biomass Plant Will Help Grow Hydroponic Greens

The biomass power plant in Berlin is getting half a million dollars from the state to build a waste heat recovery system that will soon power a new greenhouse

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Student Design for Space Colony Greenhouse Wins NASA Praise

A radiation-shielded, inflatable greenhouse with a hydroponic growing system designed by undergraduate students at Dartmouth College’s Thayer School of Engineering could sustain four astronauts on a 600-day mission to Mars as soon as 2030

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Swiss Retail Migros: "All Greenhouses To Be Heated Fossil-Free By 2025"

Retailer Migros is serious: From 2025 onwards, the greenhouses supplying the Swiss retail chain are only to be heated with renewable energy.

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Northern Italian Trial Greenhouse To Test Floating Systems In Winter

"Growers have been using floating systems for years, but not always in the right way. We verified that an essential element is the temperature of water." Speaking is Gian Paolo Menarello with Idromeccanica Lucchini

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Boston, MA - It Happens Here: Hands-Off, Year Round Farming At Little Leaf Farms In Devens

It’s a decommissioned army base named for Union Army General Charles Devens. It is now a residential and business community that is home to a small company helping New Englanders eat fresh, locally grown greens year-round

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Gotham Greens To Open New Greenhouse In Rhode Island

According to a press release, urban grower Gotham Greens is opening a new 110,000-square-foot facility in Providence, Rhode Island

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US - Pennsylvania - BrightFarms To Open Hydroponic Greenhouse in Snyder County

New York-based BrightFarms recently announced plans to open a 250,000-square-foot hydroponic greenhouse in Snyder County

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Italy: Thirteen Hectares of Lettuce Grown On A Floating System

All types of lettuce are grown with the floating system on an area of 13 hectares. The whole system is automated to produce salad marketed under the brand name Ninfa

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The Research of The Investment Potential of Russian Greenhouse Complexes 2019

The team of analysts from Vostock Capital is preparing a report on the research of Investment Potential of Greenhouse Complexes in Russia 2019

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Urban Farming: Gotham Greens Sees ‘Continued Rise’ In Demand

US urban agriculture pioneer Gotham Greens believes the scare, and resulting supply chain and traceability issues, served to validate its business model of growing produce in a secure environment that can reduce the risk of food-borne pathogens. Indeed, during the incident, the company saw a surge in orders of its romaine lettuce.

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Qatar Academy Visit Dutch Greenhouse Tech Firm

Eight students of the Qatar Academy for Science and Technology (QAST), a new Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) school visited Certhon recently

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Signify Expands In Belgian Horticulture Market With New TOMCO Project

Signify today announced its second horticulture project with tomato grower Luc Coghe to install full LED lighting in a newly built 10 hectares greenhouse in Roeselare, Belgium

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DelFresco Pure Goes Vertical With CubicFarm

Kingsville, ON-based DelFresco Produce Ltd. is working with CubicFarm Systems, Milner, BC, to expand the company’s product line and footprint with container farms