Royal van Zanten celebrates 160th anniversary with charity auction Royal Van Zanten celebrates its 160th anniversary in 2022 with a royal touch. In collaboration with growers, an orange ‘Dancing Queen’ Alstroemerias auction took place yesterday. The proceeds, €5,890.56, were doubled by Royal Van Zanten and donated to the Princess Máxima…
Start of the season at Fruchthof Hensen The first domestic strawberries from protected cultivation are already being harvested for about two weeks. The greenhouse at Fruchthof Hensen in Swisttal, Rhineland, has also been bustling since the first week of April. “Compared to last year, this year’s harvest of our greenhouse…
A dream come true with wirelessly controlled potato storage cells! After the successful introduction of our wireless process computer system for greenhouse horticulture and controlling irrigation systems from a large distance (5 kilometres), we recently delivered the first wireless project for potato storage cells in Germany. With the help of…
Teplichny: 45 years in a Russian greenhouse – a veteran’s story This year, Russian collective farm Teplichny has an anniversary. 50 years of production are not only about the numbers achieved and the assortment. It is first of all about people, both young specialists and those whose employment history equals…
Höfler Gemüse wants to build 6 hectares of greenhouse, despite resistance “It’s a paradox – everyone wants organically, regional and CO2 neutral vegetables. The vegetable farms needed for this should not be near their own village,” laments Peter Höfler junior, partner of Höfler Gemüse. It is a problem that is…
New mobile greenhouse with Wireless Xtender We recently received the assignment to equip some roll-up (mobile) greenhouses in Noord-Holland (Dutch province), with our wirelessly-controlled field stations. The grower, Klein Canada, will have 7 individual greenhouses controlled and managed by the Wireless Xtender. With this system, which was officially launched in…
Ten layer propagation and fully automated production at B-Four Agro ”Soon, I will be able to sit back and relax.” Speaking is Dutch lettuce grower, Willem Bas, of the Dutch company, B-Four Agro, with a twinkle in his eye. He was asked what there would be for him actually to…
Efficient irrigation with Sercom computer Schrijnwerkers is a blueberry company, founded in 1969 by Rob Schrijnwerkers. Nowadays, this family business has locations in Horst, Overloon (Netherlands), and Weeze (Germany). Schrijnwerkers has two production sites in Weeze of over 75 hectares in total. The companies in Germany are known by the…
Potato Europe – Skovnæs Kartofler (Denmark) During Potato Europe exhibition in Germany, we were visited today by yet another user (Skovnæs Kartofler) of the Sercom climate computer! On the picture Mr. Lars Petersen from Skovnæs, Maribo, Denmark. Skovnæs was one of the very first clients in Scandinavia who installed a…
Sercom end user Degenhardt Spezialkulturen Christiane Degenhardt-Sellmann, owner of the flower bulb production company Degenhardt Spezialkulturen, discusses working in a male-dominated sector, family tradition and what she sees herself doing in the future. By prospective specialist editor Yasmin-Coralie Berg. Holland, the world’s largest tulip producer Holland is the world’s largest…
