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Container Culture via RSS — greenhouse tech, CEA, and controlled-environment growing. Paste the feed URL into Feedly, Inoreader, or any reader.

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Can tomatoes be grown like lettuce? A Wageningen-led paper compares dwarf and limited-truss tomatoes with high-wire crops, trading some yield for short, uniform plants that suit robots, moving racks and stacked growing.

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A nine-year apple orchard trial in China found that swapping 30% of chemical fertilizer for organic amendments raised yields up to 39%, lifted soil pH and built organic matter, but not all manures behaved alike.

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A Dutch sweet-pepper grower has irrigated with an oxygen-based water treatment for seven years without UV or peroxide. Sensor readings show high dissolved oxygen, though microbial data is still to come.

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After 18 years farming in California, Caiti Hachmyer writes in Civil Eats about burnout, rebuilding her farm around winter crops, and why newcomers should hear that most US farm households rely on off-farm income.

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The state that grows the most pumpkins earns the least per pound. USDA data show Pennsylvania's fresh-market growers got nearly six times Illinois' cannery price, a reminder for small farms that the buyer matters more than tonnage.

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Can spinach and lamb's lettuce be grown densely without soil? A Belgian-Dutch consortium has finished six hydroponic trials testing peat vs stone wool, irrigation, varieties and water treatment on mobile gutters. Results are still to come.

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An Ag Daily Viewpoint by Kansas rancher Brandi Buzzard argues AI data centres threaten farmland and water as they move into rural America. We summarise her case on land prices, cooling water and local opposition.

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Instead of a box or bag, what if the package formed right on the fruit? A new review maps coatings, fibre mats and gels built on produce, including a kiwifruit gel that cut transit bruising by up to 53%. Most of it is still lab-stage.

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Pollination quietly sets the ceiling on many crops, and bees are under pressure outdoors and under glass. Biobest's new Polly robot shows how greenhouse growers are starting to treat pollination as a managed, measured input.

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In a Paraguayan plastic house with years of bacterial wilt, tomatoes grafted onto a resistant rootstock stayed wilt-free while up to 100% of ungrafted plants wilted, and set about 19% more fruit. What it means for your farm.

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Planted Detroit, Michigan's largest vertical farm, closes in November and its whole campus goes to a sealed-bid sale. The real test: what is built-out indoor-farm capacity worth to a second owner, and why staged container growth limits the risk.

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