Exhibitor press releases

In an exciting development for the horticultural sector, Gardin, an innovator in optical phenotyping technology, is now available to growers using Ridder climate computers. This strategic integration marks a significant advancement in horticultural production, empowering growers with real-time photosynthesis insights to monitor plant health, measure farm productivity and optimise their climate strategies.

As thousands of horticultural industry representatives gather in Amsterdam for this year’s GreenTech Event, Beaulieu Technical Textiles is presenting its re-designed range of weed control ground covers, setting a new sustainability benchmark in the industry.

Source.ag appoints General Manager to spearhead North America growth

When delivering flower seeds, it is very important that the customer knows what percentage of the seeds gives usable plants. Until recently, this so called usable was determined manually. With the purchase of the GA-box from AgriData Innovations, that belongs to the past. By automating the process, the usable is now even more reliable.

Horticoop invests in sustainable greenhouse horticulture by adding Vivent, a leader in digital crop diagnostics, whose AI-driven technology monitors plant health and alerts growers to threats before symptoms appear, aiming to enhance data-driven cultivation and sustainability in the industry.

Vivent pioneers data-driven solutions for sustainable greenhouse horticulture, drawing inspiration from information networks in living organisms to offer crop health monitoring services.

Improving Water Use Efficiency in Pepper Cultivation: Collaborative Efforts by Gardin Agritech and Bayer Crop Science "Gardin’s insights allowed us to maintain high yields whilst drastically reducing our water consumption at the farm. This technology has the potential to help growers to protects themselves against the effect of adverse weather conditions, all while reducing their water reliance." - Bayer

Gardin, and certified B Corp GrowUp Farms - have come together to create a sustainable, climate-proof environment for growing in the UK.

Vertically Urban is thrilled to unveil its latest horticultural lighting innovations: Horti-Blaze Tunable and Odyssey Tunable, designed specifically for vertical farms and glasshouses. Representing the culmination of extensive research and development efforts at their UK-based factory, these products incorporate advanced technology that revolutionizes the way growers control light spectra, providing unparalleled customization tailored to each crop's unique needs.

Urban Crop Solutions embraces the challenge of enhancing space efficiency in agriculture and horticulture. The 12-meter-high vertical greenhouse of Agrotopia in Belgium becomes the remarkable stage for an innovative project marking a significant transformation in the field of vertical horticulture. The project’s objective is to provide effective solutions for space utilization, positioning Flanders as a leader in innovation and sustainability within the agri-food industry.

LettUs Grow is embarking on a research project with Albotherm, a fellow Bristol-based agri-tech company, to investigate the impact of intuitive shading technology on glasshouse productivity and energy efficiency.

A pioneering project led by LettUs Grow - in collaboration with Fotenix, Rothamsted Research, CHAP, and Vertically Urban - is set to revolutionise the Total Controlled Environment Agriculture (TCEA) landscape in the UK. The Advanced Crop Dynamic Control (ACDC) project aims to develop highly energy-efficient and sustainable indoor farming systems through image-based analysis, AI and software that optimises the growing environment based on plant health and dynamic market environments.

Many years of experience, research, and investments have gone into developing and manufacturing the Ellepot System, and we secure this work through product patents. This ensures that we can deliver the highest quality to our customers. The Ellepot sleeve system gives growers a fully automated system with a unique new precision seeding technology.

Gardin have partnered with Agrolux, a global leader in horticultural lighting, and Delphy Improvement Centre, a leading crop research centre, to demonstrate how chlorophyll fluorescence measurements can be used to optimise lighting strategies in strawberry production.

Kirsten Leiss and her team at Wageningen University are pioneering the use of electrophysiological sensors to detect plant stress caused by pests and diseases like mildew and thrips up to six days before visible symptoms occur, potentially revolutionizing crop management with data-driven cultivation systems.

Seamlessly Merging Climate Control and Autonomous Greenhouse Technologies Priva and Koidra, two world leaders in greenhouse growing systems, are excited to announce an innovative new partnership.

Koidra proudly announces its distinguished position in the Homegrown Innovation Challenge, a transformative endeavor to elevate Canada’s agricultural sector.

The Challenge?: Finding a better lighting solution for cannabis growth capable of providing even lighting to all parts of the plant. The Hortiv Solution: After a number of steps combining development and on-site trials together with the GREENKOM team, Hortiv delivered lamps with the special features needed for more efficient production of medical cannabis. The new lamps require less power, produce less heat, and provide more precise lighting. The Result: Thanks to even lighting, the plants’ production rate is higher, their flowers are more uniform, and all this takes place with lower power consumption for both lighting and cooling.

The Challenge: To find the right lighting to be installed inside the growing device, that will be suitable for home use - safe and efficient. The Hortiv Solution The HORTIV solution was chosen for 2 reasons, 1. The strong local presence of the distributor and its ability to give quick and comprehensive customer support 2. A good cost - effective ratio The Result: AGWA’s customers are enjoying a great product. Precise lighting at a reasonable price plays a great role in the final result - all features which competitors were not able to offer.

The Challenge: To find lightning fixtures that are suitable for different types of vertical growing systems and expand the range of crops that can be efficiently cultivated this way. The Hortiv Solution: Hortiv’s systems and support gave Vertical Field the flexibility it required, with more adaptable and adjustable equipment and solutions, by performing trials for the particular needs of vertical farming together. The Result: Vertical Field is now able to extend its research and development efforts with lighting that is appropriate for different types of crops and stages of development.

The Challenge: Plantae’s researchers were looking for a system that would allow flexibility when implementing varied lighting regimes in the growth rooms in order to study the reaction of plants to different growing conditions. The Hortiv Solution: The answer was to install two systems in parallel: The first steup provides flexibility for Plantae to test and find the optimal conditions required for growing the various tissue cultures in their collection. The second one, in which the composition of the light is predetermined and supports previously calibrated plant tissue culture growing protocols. The Result: Based on these observations, Plantae formulated precise work protocols needed to reliably produce a wide range of plants in cultures.

The Challenge: While building its new tissue culture lab, RCK was looking for lighting with the sufficient spectrum and wavelength, but that would not take up too much space or emit too much heat. The Hortiv Solution: HORTIV’s controllable product solutions covered the entire range of parameters that RCK required for its research, and did so despite space constraints. The Result: The lab is new and so far a solution has been found to control the lighting environment for its research experiments, which no company other than Hortiv was able or willing to develop for them.

Understanding how crops respond to environmental stress is crucial to developing high performance varieties and growing crops profitably. No one knows this better than at Enza Zaden, who constantly strive to produce resilient varieties at scale for growers all over the world. Gardin is thrilled to announce that, after the completion of a successful trial in September 2022, Enza Zaden has the intention to expand our collaboration across their facilities in the Netherlands and Spain in 2023.

The Ultra-Clima is a semi-closed greenhouse concept with 5 key starting points. In the coming months we will provide an explanation of each individual starting point or one of the components. This article is about saving energy using this technology.

The costs in horticulture have skyrocketed last years. Energy is now the largest cost factor, but also the costs of labor, seeds, material, machines and greenhouse space increase year after year. Having the costs in control is more critical than ever for Plant nursery P van Geest with over 200.000m2 of production area.