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Hishtil and Limex announce intensive collaboration
"Result of this collaboration is optimal sanitation and propagating material"
Hishtil, a global producer of grafted vegetable seedlings and vegetative herb cuttings, uses the washing process to ensure cleaner trays leading to reduced plant loss and a drastically lower risk of contamination in nurseries. The collaboration included the design phase as well as laboratory tests which…
Insight into all service and maintenance of technical installations
bQurius chooses Royal Brinkman's Service Engine to coordinate and manage all maintenance at twelve nurseries of five tomato growers, including Schenkeveld Tomatoes, Greenvalley, and Van der Voort. Richard Schenkeveld: "Due to growth, we were looking for a modern system to monitor maintenance activities.…
Netherlands: Rapid development of Soft Fruit Research Location ISFC
The construction of the Delphy ISFC, the research location for soft fruit, is progressing well so far. The greenhouse has been constructed and the screens installed. In addition, the basic installation in the corridor and technical area for the installation of water, electricity, and heating systems has…
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Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi speaks of severe regional consequencesEgypt, Ethiopia & Sudan set for more dam talks
This weekend, Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan will meet this weekend to discuss the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which broke ground in 2011. The three countries are in a longstanding dispute over the project. Foreign ministers from Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan have agreed to meet in the Democratic Republic of…
MU celebrates Henry Kirklin with dedication of learning lab
State-of-the-art lab is MU effort to raise awareness of the university’s first Black teacher
The University of Missouri today honored Henry Kirklin, a celebrated Black farmer and educator who lived in and around Columbia from 1858 until his death in 1938, with the naming of the Henry Kirklin Plant Sciences Learning Laboratory in his honor. Nearly a dozen of Kirklin’s descendants were in virtual…
Musical tribute to the Westland region now also on online streaming services
"On the banks of the Gantel, between Monster and De Lier, where a thousand flowers bloom, and beer flows abundantly." These are the first sentences of the song 'Glas', a musical tribute to the Westland by Jan Boekestein. Th…
Canadian breaks World Record by eating three Carolina reapers in under 10 seconds
A Canadian with a love for spicy food broke a Guinness World Record by eating three Carolina reaper chili peppers in under 10 seconds. A video was shared of Mike Jack…
