Over the past 100 years, supermarkets have subtly shaped our expectations of how fruits and vegetables should appear. We’ve been conditioned to believe that red peppers are naturally uniform, cucumbers are always straight, onions are no larger than a cricket ball, and tomatoes are near-perfect spheres -…
Imagine this: Outside, it’s a freezing winter. The temperature has dropped to -25°C, -30°C, everything is covered in ice, and the bitter cold wind dominates the landscape. The ground is frozen solid, and nature has fallen into a deep slumber. But as you step inside the glass walls of a greenhouse, you…
Effective from the 1st of February 2025, Ted Vollebregt has been appointed as managing director of PECO’s substrate businesses Lensli Substrates, MEEGAA Substrates, and Free Peat by the Board of PECO. Toine Schipper (left), Ted Vollebregt (middle) and Frank Meeuwisse (right) pictured in the Lensli office…
Expert glasshouse installation specialists at CambridgeHOK have completed one of the most challenging and unique projects in its 70-year history—a four-story facility atop a new ‘urban living’ development in Swansea. The project, undertaken for Hacer Developments as part of its unique, first-of-a-kind…
UK: Supermarket sales slow amid growing concerns about higher food inflationLatest data from NielsenIQ (NIQ) shows Total Till sales growth in UK supermarkets slowed to 4.0% during the four weeks to 22nd February, down from the 5.3% figure recorded in January. Over the four weeks, meat, fish and poultry…
A popular spring event in Loveland is being cut this year due to a crop shortage. Blooms and Berries announced on social media Tuesday that it will be canceling its 2025 Strawberry Days. The company said in a Facebook post that it does not have enough healthy crops to produce strawberries for the event.…
Up until recently, the supply of field cucumbers has been exceeding the demand. “We have had very good weather so the growing conditions have been good,” says Jim Myrick of Edward L. Myrick Produce. On field cucumber supply, the end of the Honduran season is approaching and the country is finishing its…
A research team led by Prof. Alexander Vainstein from the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food, and Environment at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has developed a new variety of lettuce with significantly higher levels of essential vitamins and antioxidants. Their findings, published in Plant…
Chilli thrips plague farmers worldwide, but new research from the University of Florida has found two strawberry varieties that show less harm from these pests. The finding comes through research funded in part by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture Hatch program. That’s helpful news for…
St. Anthony Basin Resources Inc. (SABRI) got its start as a social enterprise with a focus on the fishery. The St. Anthony-based organization was involved in not just fishing but in programs and research and development initiatives, but when SABRI’s fishing quota was reduced, CEO Christopher Mitchelmore…
Casual fast food chain Chipotle Mexican Grill is giving $500,000 toward a new research greenhouse at Cal State Monterey Bay. The research facility will have four separate greenhouses and a main headhouse for students and faculty to innovate, experiment, and collaborate within CSUMB’s Agricultural Plant…
Cyclone-prone Mozambique knows how to bounce back from bad weather events with vegetable exports increasing by nearly 45% during the first three quarters in 2024, compared with the same period in the previous year. While southern Mozambique had already experienced rainfall, sowing in central and northern…