Indoor Ag
Controlled environment agriculture (CEA) uses indoor technologies like hydroponics, vertical farming and greenhouses to optimize growing conditions such as temperature, light and nutrients. This approach allows the produce industry to provide a consistent, year-round supply of high-quality crops while significantly reducing water usage and land requirements.
Guelph, Ontario-based GoodLeaf Farms is adding baby greens to its product line.
Devens, Mass.-based Little Leaf Farms is hosting a virtual grand opening for its greenhouse in Devens.
San Antonio-based NatureSweet has launched its NatureSweet Dulce Italiano Sweet Peppers.
South Bend, Ind.-based Pure Green Farms is set to begin growing, packaging and distributing fresh leafy greens in February.
Loblaw Cos. has chosen Nature Fresh Farms’ Ontario Greenhouse Mixiany Cherry Tomatoes as its President’s Choice Fresh Product of the Year Award.
Mastronardi Produce Ltd., Kingsville, Ontario, in a partnership with John Paul DeJoria, is planning a greenhouse project in the Middle East to distribute fruits and vegetables to the region.
It’s back-to-school time, and Mastronardi Produce’s Sunset brand has new healthy snacks suitable for lunchboxes.
The Star Group, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, is expanding a focus on technology to improve processes from food safety to ensuring better flavor of the produce it grows.
DelFrescoPure, Kingsville, Ontario, has taken its integrated pest management program from greenhouse vegetables and applied it to strawberries.
Greenhouse company Great Lakes Growers, Burton, Ohio, recently broke ground on a 100,000-square-foot expansion that will boost production capacity to 12 million heads of leafy greens.
Greenhouse growers in Ontario are gearing up for what they hope will be another stellar season, said Joe Sbrocchi, general manager of the Leamington-based Ontario Greenhouse Vegetable Growers Association.
Pete’s, Carpinteria, Calif., will have a new product for West Coast retailers this spring: Pete’s Butter Stuffers.
BrightFarms’ greenhouse salad products will be sold in more than 330 Food Lion stores in Virginia and other Ahold-Delhaize Mid-Atlantic stores through an expanded partnership with the retailer.
Indoor Ag-Con, an indoor agriculture conference and trade show, has announced a marketing partnership with the Produce Marketing Association.
AMCO Produce, Leamington, Ontario, is “aggressively seeking new distributors, wholesalers and retailers in the U.S.,” said Paul Arrowsmith, sales manager.
If consumers are putting renewed emphasis on nutritious eating during this trying time, greenhouse grower-shippers are willing and able to help.
Greenhouse grower Nature Fresh Farms, Leamington, Ontario, has added Zanelle Hough as a retail sales account manager.
A new amphitheater in Leamington, Ontario, is named Sunset Stadium, recognizing support from Mastronardi Produce, marketer of the Sunset brand.
At least 125 employees of Green Empire Farms, Oneida, N.Y., have been confirmed with the new coronavirus, COVID-19, prompting government officials to reinforce the need for social distancing and other measures.
Nature Fresh Farms, Leamington, Ontario, has hired Stephanie Swatkow as director of marketing.
Gotham Green, Brooklyn, N.Y., is opening a 30,000-square-foot hydroponic greenhouse in the Denver area to supply retailers in eight states.
Victor Verlage, the senior director of agriculture strategy development for Walmart, is the latest panelist confirmed for a virtual panel on produce trends on indoor agriculture.
Revol Greens, Owatonna, Minn., has hired Mark Schulze as CEO, along with a number of other personnel additions, and has expanded its Minnesota greenhouse.
Sun Belle Inc. has installed a roof-top solar energy system at its Maryland distribution center, with the capacity to offset more than 35% of its energy needs.
Mastronardi Produce, Kingsville, Ontario, has received Equitable Food Initiative certification for its fifth operation.
Kingsville, Ontario-based Mastronardi Produce is adding more heat to the Sunset lineup with Yowzers!
Lēf Farms, Loudon, N.H., has promoted Mariana Robles to production manager.
The Equitable Food Initiative has joined the Mexican Association of Protected Horticulture (AMHPAC) for a series of Spanish-language webinars for its members next month.
Belvidere, N.J.-based Edible Garden, a greenhouse grower of herbs and lettuces, has launched a unique campaign to seek investors to expand.
The Justice Department is seeking the dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s decision to allow hydroponic operations to be certified organic.