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"Tweeting Growers"
Top 5 -yesterday
Top 5 -last week
- Combining vertical farming and greenhouse horticulture to decentralize lettuce production
- Fresh produce chain hit by Lakeside Produce’s bankruptcy
- Growy acquires assets and team of Kalera International (&ever)
- Positive vibes on the first day of IPM '23
- CAN: Land Betterment acquires 50% ownership in greenhouse operations
Top 5 -last month
- How farmers are cutting out supermarkets
- Combining vertical farming and greenhouse horticulture to decentralize lettuce production
- Mexico: Rising Farms boosts capacity fivefold
- Higher light transmission and lower heat demand with double foil greenhouse
- Fresh produce chain hit by Lakeside Produce’s bankruptcy
Organic
Jan Groen, Green Organics:
“We’re reaching a point where conventional costs more than organic”
"Things are ever dynamic and tumultuous, and no different for organic than conventional. The organic sector keeps gradually growing. Sometimes demand's too high; sometimes,…
Retailer registration opens for Organic Produce Summit 2023
Retailer registration for Organic Produce Summit 2023 is now open, with qualified individuals from retail and direct-to-consumer buying organizations eligible for complimentary registration and hotel accommodations. The seventh annual OPS will be held July 12-13 at the Monterey Conference Center in…
A visit to Hishtil’s new mother stock facility in Gderot, Israel:
"We aim to go entirely organic”
Hishtil is a specialist propagator of herbs, vegetables, and ornamental young plants and supplies unrooted and rooted cuttings and grafted plants to the professional and hobby markets worldwide. Annually, it produces more than one billion conventional and organic plants, of which approximately 120 million are grafted…
"We can't grow 1000 acres of vegetables, but we can grow the equivalent in nutrient density in a 500-square-meter space"
Spreading the nutritional value of microgreens on a national scale after amazing flood rebuild
A Northern New South Wales microgreens grower has rebuilt "bigger and better" than before after being wiped out by flooding earlier this year. Five Sixty Farms is based in Lismore, and owner Pepe Fassos says while the region is in a flood area, they had never experienced anything like what they…
