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04 Nov 2025 | Industry voices
Tiffany Meijer is Project Manager International Trade – Horti & Food at InnovationQuarter and works at Rotterdam Partners . In her role at both organizations, she supports companies from South Holland in their international ambitions. From her office in The Hague or Rotterdam, she connects innovative Dutch companies with international markets.
26 Aug 2025 | Industry voices
Arne van Aalst works as a Key Account Manager for North West Europe at Koppert. In this role, he liaises with major growers (associations) and subsidiaries in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, the UK, and Poland. He advises on sustainable solutions in integrated crop protection. In this MasterKas, he shares his vision on sustainable cultivation, European policy, and the future of the sector.
26 Aug 2025 | Industry voices
With MasterKas, we speak to people who are shaping the greenhouse horticulture of tomorrow. For this edition, we talk to Mirjam Boekestijn, CEO of Dutch Greenhouse Delta. As the daughter of a family of growers, she grew up among greenhouses. Today, she plays an active role in strengthening the international position of the Dutch horticulture sector. Through Dutch Greenhouse Delta, she brings together companies, knowledge, and networks to create scalable global impact with sustainable food production.
10 Apr 2025 | Industry voices
As greenhouse climate control systems become more complex, cultivation managers are seeking expert guidance more than ever. Many growers are not fully aware of how technologies like LED lighting, double screens, or vertical fans affect the greenhouse climate. They also may not know how to optimize these systems to maximize energy savings without compromising crop quality and production, says Ton Habraken, greenhouse climate expert at Svensson.
26 Sep 2024 | Industry voices
Blue Radix recently won the prestigious GreenTech Innovation Award 2024 with their advanced AI system: integrated autonomous climate and irrigation control. This system, an improvement of the already successful Crop Controller, enables growers to manage their greenhouses more efficiently and sustainably. In this interview, we speak with Ronald Hoek, CEO of Blue Radix , about the developments, challenges and future vision of autonomous growing.
08 Aug 2024 | Industry voices
Anja is a senior researcher in plant physiology at the Greenhouse Horticulture unit of Wageningen University & Research, with many years of experience in the field. She grew up on a farm in Groningen and initially studied agricultural plant cultivation at Wageningen, but switched to horticulture after discovering her passion for controlled plant growth. Since 2000, Anja has been with the Greenhouse Horticulture unit at Wageningen University & Research.
10 Jul 2024 | Industry voices
Gretchen Schimelpfenig is one of those people who seem to fit more into their working week than many of us find time for in a month. She works with greenhouse owners on energy projects and accessing rebates and grants, and runs Cornell University’s GLASE Consortium on greenhouse lighting and control, speaks at green industry conferences, and plays first fiddle in the Hildegard String Quartet. From a Vermont forest home, she manages to combine an engineer’s optimism, with a deep-felt mission to reduce the climate impact of horticulture and the built world.
11 Jun 2024 | Industry voices
He is still actively involved in HortiTech, but now that he is approaching retirement age, he mainly focuses on preparing 'his boys'. In our conversation with Peet van Adrichem we discuss how the company uses Dutch expertise worldwide to stimulate the agricultural sector.
15 May 2024 | Industry voices
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05 Apr 2024 | Industry voices
Sjaak Bakker was manager of the Greenhouse Horticulture and Flower Bulbs business unit at Wageningen University & Research (WUR) until the end of 2022. Although he recently retired, he is still actively involved in the work. WUR is currently renovating the greenhouses where research and tests are carried out. Due to his extensive experience and expertise, WUR has asked Sjaak to help coordinate these innovations, at least until the end of 2024. He is therefore still using his knowledge and skills to successfully lead this process.
20 Mar 2024 | Industry voices
Today’s NEN direct and diffuse light transmittance test helps growers get the best harvest, like a surprising echo of ancient wisdom from 5000 years ago. Then, stone age farmers in Ireland went to great lengths, and moved a lot of soil and stone, to devise a test that would reveal the precise timing of the Spring and Autumn equinox.
19 Mar 2024 | Industry voices
For this edition of our “In Conversation with…” series, we interviewed Philippe-Antoine Taillon, Expert Advisor in Greenhouse Vegetable and Fruit Crops with the Quebec Ministry of Agricultural Fisheries and Food of Quebec (MAPAQ). A Quebecois who travels the state advising growers on the support they can receive as part of Quebec’s Feed our World policy, Philippe-Antoine Taillon has a key role in implementing three rebate policies for regional horticulture. When we sat down with him, he began by answering the question our previous interviewees asked most often.
