20/06/2023

Better strawberry cultivation and savings through new irrigation strategy

Peter Lemmen and cropadvisor Jan Janssen of Delpy explain how they found the optimal irrigation strategy with the help of Growficient sensors.
24/03/2023

Blackberry nursery J. Pouls

Blackberry grower Jeroen Pouls argues: “If you don’t try, you won’t get any wiser.” And wiser he is now. Thanks to the use of Growficient, he […]
23/12/2022

Marcel van den Berg – Tomato nursery van den Berg

Two years ago, Marcel van den Berg switched from stone wool to Forteco coco substrate of Van der Knaap, and since then he started using Growficient substrate sensors. This switch provided a high yield this season
21/12/2021

Sebastiaan Breugem – Breugem Horticulture

Sebastiaan Breugem talks about his experiences with the Growficient substrate sensors and his future ambitions.
10/12/2021

Well begun is half done

In many cases, at the start of the cultivation the young plants are not yet placed directly on the planting holes in the slab. This is […]
08/10/2021

Collaboration a key step towards autonomous irrigation

Piet Wijnen is the cultivation manager of various strawberry greenhouse sites of Dutch nursery Thwan of Gennip BV. At two sites, he uses a Ridder (formerly […]
07/09/2021

Ad Hurks – Crop advisor

Ad Hurks is a consultant in different types of soft fruit in the soft fruit industry and is active in this sector worldwide. For example he […]
30/06/2021

Precise control over irrigation raspberries

A big challenge when growing raspberries is determining the right way of irrigation. Determining the right moments to water is important, but often happens on a hunch. Nowadays irrigation can be monitored and optimised with substrate sensors from Growficient. Grower Bart Mensen from Verpaalen Soft Fruit and soft fruit consultant Ad Hurks will tell us more about this.
11/06/2021

Remi van Geest – Green Y Land

After taking over his father’s courgette company, Remi van Geest has been growing cucumbers at various locations since 2016 in Tinte. Remi has been using Growficient […]