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May 7, 2019 |
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Health Canada has officially announced the cancellation of several neonicotinoid pesticides. Greenhouse ornamentals and greenhouse vegetable transplants are affected.
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An analysis of StatCan data says total sales and resales of flowers and plants grown in Nova Scotia greenhouses are down by 25.5 per cent over the last three years, reports The Chronicle Herald.
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Among the partnership’s plans? Apply innovative technologies to food production in an urban setting through the development of Canada’s first net-zero vertical farm.
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While the crop he’s built a business around may be teeny, tiny, Greenbelt Microgreens owner Ian Adamson’s big-picture thinking is yielding impressive results. When it was time to replace their greenhouse’s cloudy double polyethylene covering, Canada’s largest producer of organic microgreens put quality first. After investing in ACRYLITE® Alltop high impact UV transmitting acrylic multi-skin sheet, Adamson estimates that crop yields have improved by 40% and the growth cycle has been reduced by 20%. Macro thinking can truly take a company’s crop to new heights.
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Canadian greenhouse vegetable growers are undergoing strict sanitation protocols. Known as the tomato brown rugose fruit virus ( ‘TBRFV’, or ‘the rugose’ for short), the disease has been detected in approximately 100 cases across 20 states in Mexico. It was detected in Belgium and the Netherlands earlier this year.
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There’s something different about the glass at Freeman Herbs. Above a half acre of Freeman’s production space, the southern-facing panes of rooftop glass have been replaced with specialty solar modules. Each one combines two key pieces of technology: a light-polarizing backsheet and a photovoltaic (PV) cell.
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The HOBOnet Field Monitoring System from Onset provides a cost-effective and scalable solution for web-enabled monitoring of field conditions for applications such as crop management, research, and greenhouse operations.
Onset's wireless sensors are ready to deploy and easily link to the network, and data is accessed through the new version of HOBOlink®, Onset's innovative cloud-based software platform.
• | Powerful Visualization in Real Time |
• | Protect Your Crops and Reduce Costs |
• | Cover Your Research Sites with Reliable Data Collection |
• | Monitor Greenhouse Conditions with Real-Time Notifications |
• | Field-Proven, Scalable, and Deployment-Ready |
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