Lighting, automation, biologicals, and data help vegetable growers increase their profit margin and yield.
The two companies will work to ensure that hardware and software are smoothly combined to accommodate tomorrow’s greenhouse changes.
Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands and the Swiss technical university EPFL sought to design a useful tool for an industry facing future supply challenges, while factoring in the inherent risks.
The app, which initially only supported tomatoes, gives growers unique insights into their crops’ growth, development, and yield, and allows them to create high-quality, consistent plant measurements.
Intelligent Setpoint Control for LUNA AI, a closed-loop system for autonomous climate control in horticulture, pairs climate data with comprehensive plant performance data using computer vision.
Unveiled at this week’s Indoor Ag Con, the technology can be used by growers to collect comprehensive crop data from fruit to flower.
ChatGPT can answer questions and participate in human-like dialog across a full spectrum of information and topics. But will growers be able to use it? One curious mind takes a deep dive.
The greenhouse vegetable market continues to expand rapidly, and with that comes a need for reliable production information.
Collecting data allows you to take intelligent actions and make strategic decisions to optimize your production practices.
The greenhouse lettuce grower is partnering with autonomous growing specialist Blue Radix to optimize energy and climate control throughout the company’s expanding network of facilities.
Ecoation, Bogaerts, and Biobest have unveiled the world’s first IPM scouting and yield forecasting robot for greenhouses.
Any degree of automation, from the addition of simple sensors up to image processing artificial intelligences, brings real value through labor savings to growers of all types.
Over the past few years, Microsoft and Blue Radix developed a commercial version of an artificial intelligence-driven solution for autonomous growing.