Sector | Labor and automation
Pakistan: UAF introduces multi-functional vegetable nursery transplanter to boost productivity
‘The perfect balance between people and AI at Árpád’
Koidra reflects on KoPilot
Measuring improvements in smart growing across 2025
US: AmericanHort joins Amicus Brief to defend H-2A wage reform, as workforce concerns loom large for growers
Möbius and Heliovision to host webinar on 24 March
"AI helps growers predict precisely when their produce will be ready for market"
AG Group Europe strengthens its commitment to agricultural robotics for intensive horticulture
Metazet presents new TubeRaiser tube rail lift at HortiContact
Combining greenhouse cultivation with outdoor cultivation becomes possible
Labor management system even more widely applicable after update
CAN: Ontario growers support scholarships for children of Jamaican seasonal workers
"We develop AI-based solutions for growers and nurseries"
Improving automation when examining the growth of pepper leaves
Precision seeding and grafting gain ground as nurseries face higher costs and tighter margins
Why advanced control is becoming central to circular indoor farming
“Once we introduce interconnections, everything changes”
AmericanHort introduces new Workplace Safety in Horticulture webinar series
UAE: Using AI to cut down on food waste
Spain offers half a million migrants the prospect of legal residence and work permits
New partnership to expand greenhouse drone distribution across Europe
Adana: Hydroponic strawberries in AI-supported greenhouse exported to 7 countries
Beyond the dashboard: Chada Farms and the “reasoning” revolution in nutrition
AmericanHort urges release of supplemental H-2B Visas
Australia: Queensland labour hire provider in court
Automated irrigation and fertigation address labour challenges in India
“We extended our crop intelligence from sensing to on-farm action”
Waving goodbye to repetitive manual tasks
VB provides climate installation for Looye Kwekers expansion
Introducing Phenostation
“Greenhouses offer excellent conditions for phenotyping, but scalability and standardization remain challenges”
UK: 2026 Grower Seasonal Worker Roadshows announced
High-speed grafter AC assists grafting above the cotyledons at Vreugdenhil Young Plants
"Every day we gain more confidence in the machine"
Turkey: Using technology to create 24/7 greenhouse viability
Robonity applies AI and robotics to reduce labor costs
"Superhero” robots to transform labor-intensive vegetable growing
"The Netherlands cannot do without migrant workers, migrant workers cannot do without housing"
Mondi Products launches Avara Technology
NJIT Student inventors' greenhouse climate system blooms with an AI 'brain'
How AI is affecting the future of lighting
Growers invest in APV to reduce hard labor
"We design solutions that solve real operational challenges in the field"
New partnership aims to reduce the "big swings" in growing
BerryWorld live with QC app from FreshControl
“It took a next-level effort to incorporate all requirements into the inspection report”
Elea Technology GmbH exhibits at Fruit Logistica:
"PEF is increasingly establishing itself as a key technology for fruit and vegetables"
4XRobots expanding US presence
VitalFluid delivers first Plasma Activated Water systems to UK strawberry growers
Sustainable agriculture training expanded in Mexico
North Carolina develops robots for vegetable field labor
AI takes the lead in fruit packing: real-time control for delicate produce
Moroccan labour shortages threaten fruit and vegetable harvests
BASF Nunhems and LetsGrow.com strengthen collaboration with data-driven cultivation strategies
"We translate our variety knowledge into steering based on clear objectives"
"Radical shift needed to put people first in UK growing"
Wood fiber substrates gain momentum as industry responds to raw material challenges
Avemoy enters Dutch greenhouse market with new sales director Arjen de Haan
New practical monitoring tool for commercial greenhouse production
SAP and Syngenta announce partnership to scale AI-assisted agriculture
Erfgoed announces new agent in Germany
Rusty gutters undergo renovation with special coating
Nigeria: NASENI targets research commercialization, AI, greenhouse expansion
Moroccan seasonal workers joins Spain’s Huelva as strawberry harvest starts
Unpaid wages trigger work stoppage at greenhouse company in Mexico
China: Bio-based amelioration technology tackles salinization vhallenge
Seed Your Future launches 2026 storytelling series showcasing champions of the green workforce
New FlexAIR helps growers address changing substrate availability
Nature doing most of the climate control in naturally humid areas
Integrated climate, water, and energy solutions for Southeast Asian greenhouse farming
Kuwait: Advancing automated leafy greens production into extreme climates
UC Davis graduate advances Gotham Greens crops through AI-driven greenhouse forecasting
Australian strawberry grower seeks council approval for robot plan
Inside 4Climate’s automation suite with CEO Subhajit Sinha
“Interoperability is important because farms rarely rely on a single supplier”
Wageningen project takes autonomous growing to the next level
A group of experienced growers, an AI algorithm and a digital twin all growing cucumbers
Australian greenhouse payload approved for ISS mission
Creating reliable path planning for greenhouse robots
"Plant sensors and dynamic lighting open new doors for growers"
U.S. farm labor shortages add pressure under trade tariffs
Australia backs Laos berry farming and digital census initiative
Kenya: Examining the human side of AI
Japan: Teaching robots how to pick tomatoes
Looking at the use of AI in solar-assisted greenhouse systems
Vegetable transplant technology launches in California
US: EFI celebrates a decade of progress in 2025
Australian vegetable farm accused of underpaying migrant workers
Lock GmbH presents innovative solutions at IPM ESSEN 2026
State-of-the-art technology enables worry-free greenhouse operation
partnering with IUNU for yield forecasting, crop steering and labor quality
Finka: solving the biggest challenges in high-tech greenhouse production
MechaTronix prepares for growth with additional production capacity in Europe
Another year of big advancements in greenhouse automation
Limited trial slots still available for harvest robot for snack tomatoes
Dutch snack tomato grower starts snack tomato harvesting robot field trial
Multilingual nursery management with image-based gap detection
Collaboration aims to cultivate the future of growing at the University of Arizona
"We can offer a more complete solution and stronger support across the entire production process"
A year full of automation:
Robot Wanted: Experience in Greenhouses Preferred
EVJA's Agronomic Intelligence Platform (Italy)
Monitoring, pest forecasting, yield, and CO₂ in one platform
Hoogendoorn:
Cultivation management IIVO release 7.0 launches
Fotenix India
UK growers deploy new robotic glasshouse scouting trolley
Can tomato ripeness be detected through the use of AI?
State wage shifts raise labour costs for U.S. agriculture
ioCrops announces official entry into the North American greenhouse market
From Seoul, South Korea to Leamington, Ontario Canada
Keeping employees safe from blue light hazard in LED greenhouses
Viscon transfers spacing fork product portfolio to Flier
"By concentrating our portfolio, we create room for innovation and growth"
Tashkent shuts 67 greenhouses in one week amid air-quality crackdown
Inspections to continue until air quality improves in Tashkent
Using a reinforcement learning algorithm to aid greenhouse irrigation
Canobi AgTech's Robin Vincent:
“If you think about the farm as the body, we’re the nervous system”
Walker S will automate seeding, monitoring, harvesting and crop automation
Newly launched humanoid robot to work in Malaysian vertical farm
Wageningen UR
Plant research feedback generates extra €200k/ha/yr
First fully automated greenhouse for leafy greens in North America completed:
"We want to build a more sustainable and efficient food production system"
Simplifying IPM planning with a new Product Calculator
Geothermal greenhouse project will create 3.500 jobs in Afyon
NL: Battling Aspergillus fumigatus in greenhouse growing regions
New program launched to advance skills development in the green industry
Mexico: Finka makes the leap from intuition to Artificial Intelligence
Crop Controller excitement:
"The possibilities with AI are endless"
Using intelligence to make the most of water management
Florian Gostner, CEO of Fri-El Green House in Ostellato (Italy):