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Cultivate Ohio 2023 Technique

Chris Aartens C & E Draad Bewerking, Corenthin (Félix) Chassouant from Harnois and Stefano Liporace with Vifra

The Total Energy Group Team

Josh, Ray and Jake Houweling, Father and sons al exhibiting at the show. Josh with ET Grow for the other two, just look at their shirts.

The Stuppy team celebrating their 150s anniversary

37 year ago Edward Verbakel, VB Group was visiting the show in Ohio already. Shhh....ask him his age.

Edward Verbakel en Nanne Bentvelzen VB Group. Looking to connect with the growers. "The vegetable growing market is increasing in North America. This noticeable at the show", says Edward.

Arthur Kroon with Total Energy, Anserwing questions of potential clients.

The always frienly smiling, Peter Armando with Griffin.

David Eygenraam, Russel Olivier, Nico Niepce and Curtis Rodrigue with Westland greenhouse solutions. Russel is the new one in the Canadian gang. Alweco and Westland greenhouse solutions are working together for over 25 years.

David Eygenraam, Russel Olivier, Nico Niepce and Curtis Rodrigue with Westland greenhouse solutions. Russel is the new one in the Canadian gang. Alweco and Westland greenhouse solutions are working together for over 25 years.

Craig Adams with California lightworks

Agrin Davari, Jeff Mayer, Alan Cartwright, and Andrew Eye with PlantProducts, has this year even more to offer

Coating spray drone in action

Barry Zuidgeest, Peter Heemskerk and Mike Eaton with Lumiforte. Promoting their coating spray by drones

TTA team presenting their new automatic cutting planting machine called CuttingEdge to make their equipment range complete for handlings and selecting of plants.

Martin Troughton, Andre Bilek an Ian Morrell and Andre Bisson with Climate Control Systems, read more about the new updated software article and water treatment

Massimo Digitali, Artemisa Lopez, Pascual Sanz with VIALE SISTEMI Drive Systems

Even Clark from HEATSTAR. Promoting their unit heaters

Tim van Kester and Arjan vd Meer. Are proud to let you know they have a great lettuce project in the US at the moment

William Maestroni with Mabre

Derek Stucki with Cannabuster

Tom and Michiel van der Waal with Flier Systems USA, letting me know that the transplanting machine is also very good to use for transplanting hydroponics.

Anthony Masse and John and jake Wiebe with south Essex Fabricating.

Max van den Hem and Alex van Klink, with Delphy for the first time at Cultivate. Not only promoting. They’re growing knowledge but also cultivation planning using algorithms.

Dennis van Dijk and Edwin Hoenserdos with Logiqs, supply from manual to fully automated bench systems.

Derek Polling, with Viscon

The Bioline Agrosviences team. "Our products control the pests that you’re concerned with".

Justin Jacobs and Casey Hilderman with Argus Controls

Justin Jacobs, showing the new wireless soul sensor, by ARGOS.

Conley’s in this business for over 75 years. Jeffrey Conley and Lance Baze.

Dana Pack and Justin Graves with Fogco, promoting the Snap Fan EC 20 Max. Crop level airflow fan.

Color helps build a brand name. Wihtin Europe the Hortinno plants are very recognizable and known by their dark blue cultivation pot. Stefan Laridon with Hortinno

Lindsay Voogt sales, plant care tags, Helena Dyck IPM consulting and sales and Andrew Boudry representing Roam technology with Global Horticulture and Filippos Potsios from Roam Technology, Huwa-San.

Filippos Potsios from Roam Technology, Huwa-San and Andrew Boudry representing Roam technology with Global Horticulture

Brian Tatrow, Nathan Obeid, Del Rockwell, Duan Van Alstine, Harley Kroker - PIPI and GGS team showcasing greenhouse structures, benches and multilevel racking for all cultivation facilities

Josh Carnevale with Excalibur Plastics and Andrea Pagliari with Eifel

Grower Solution provides software, data analytics and consulting services to the grower industry with superior service. Tisha Evans and Jon Bebus are key members of our team helping Cultivate attendees with their system needs.

Adrian Valois and Sal Salus with Growspan, talking to Antonio Aulivino from the Exolon Group

Aaron Archibald and Dil Vashi with CO2 Grow. In the middle Eelkje Pulley from HortiDaily . Read more about their products here.

Scott Wiesler with JRM, waterstoring soil amendment which hold water, so cuts water takings in half

Tobias Fluhr and Thomas Hildebrand with Lock. Showcasing their new Power drive and the LSC 40 control unit. Which is a switch system that came out last year for Europe. And last the SBE Farm management System, this is their new App

Joel Enns and Dennis Riling showcasing their NEO nanabubble generator, Moleaer

Bjard Schoots with Crux Agribotics and Frank te Kamp from Paul Boers.

Marc Staring, Jonathan Wong- Hinch and Ryan Bento with Meteor Systems. Seeing the Mexican market growing

Willem Jan Hoogduin WPS. Promoting handsfree plant production at the show.

Ken Turrentine, Udo van Slooten, Allison Driskill, Erik Jansen with Philips. Talking about their LED Toplighting Force

Ray and Jake Houweling, Philips

The guys from Mountain High and Nanne with VB Group

The A. M. A. Team is proud about their newly designed strawberry gutter system for smaller operations

GV Greenhouse's team. Here their latest article.

Robert van den Akker, with Van den Akker Transport and Peter Stuyt from Total Energy

John de Vreugd with Altisol Isolatie, Tom van Reeven from TKTopboiler, Gertjan Zantingh with Zanting, Rogier Marvin van Hengst and Herman Verboom, all with the Dutch Suppliers Group

Laurens Besemer with Ventiguard

Damatex Greenhouse Control begun to integrate wireless sensors in their systems

Wes Johnston, Shawn Misener and Ben Feldman with Grodan

Mike Kinsey and Rob Horst with Triple Green Products, biomas heating

Anderson Injectors team, showcasing the CERE controleren

Kick Jansen with Luiten en Michiel van Spronsen with Glascom.

Klaas Jan Deruiter with Holland Netting

Pascal den Heijer with Scre3ns, Edward Verbakel from VB Group and Roeland van Dijk with VH Systems

The Belgian, Dany Mestdag with Terrazza MC, is looking for new oppprtunities in North America, after great succes in Latin America.

Miriam Kolen Desch plantpak and Connie Bradt from A.M.A. Horticulture

Gord van Egmond, Randy Vermeer, Jacjack Smit, Ray Beyer, chris Jorritsma and Les van Egmond from Westbrook. In the middel Ronald Thijssen with Ammerlaan construction working together, to provide glass structure Venlo for both America and Canada. Here the article about their collaboration. Westbrook is also growing in Central US.

o Phil Schaafsma with DeGroot

The Gakon Netafim team are enjoying the show and shared information about their irrigation and greenhouse solutions

Eric Lekkerkerk, Robert de Vries, Mark Thomas and Martin Nugteren with Klasmann USA. Read more about their Growing Media solutions.

Concept Plants, Brian Kirkland talking clients. One of them is Eric Wallen with Raker Roberta’s. Young plants

Roberto Chavarria and Gerard Hofman with van Wingerden Greenhouses. Navigating the tropical plant trend

The van der Knaap guys are there to give you answers with their rooting and growing solutions

Francois Lambert 4th generation and Jeff Bishop celebrating Lamberts' 95 th anniversary

Daniel Nadeau with Aquamat system, Soleno

Victor Gonzalez and Julien Boijmans with Kekkila and Lars Petersen with Ellepot having a good time at the show

John Memendez with ISO Group, explains about their plant handling systems

Raymon vd Berg is showing how the ISO Cutting Planter 2500 works.

Joel Hahn, Aaron Ortega, Dave Leach and Lars Pedersen with Ellepot

Ellepot+Airtray = Faster rooting, shorter crop times. Lars Pedersen and Lars Jensen.

Chris Lundgren with Dosatron

David Moerdyke, Ken Herner and Dennis Timmlau, with RKW Klerks.

Ethan Uminn and Scott Andree, showing the Rapid-Veyor

Benjamin Martin from Cravo is having a blast. It’s constantly busy at their booth.

Team Koppert

Koppert's nr1 employe

Andrew Pidgeon and Sam Ahilan with Fibredust

Team Pindstrup is having a great harvest. "Freight rates are coming down, this makes business much easier".

Phormium’s Joshua Gauche

The Growing Systems' team

VRE systems team

VRE systems, Custome design screen, slight or suspended screens. Shade screens and light dep screens this for the cannabis industry.

Vostermans Ventilation, are showcasing the 18” Fan which is now also available in the US. Sara Junk and John Juhler with Vostermans. In the middle, Gregg Short from Greenhouse design

Feico Smit Plant Select

Sander Zuidgeest with Steenks Service, Ramon Breurs Holland Scherming, Brett Verbeek with Dynamic AG Solutions, Marco Breekweg with bio microbes, Ed Bredemeyer 3D, Jelle Breekweg Bio Microbes and Feico Smit Plant Select

Michiel van Spronsen, Glascom, Johan v d Beuke, Beukel Greenhouse Services and Arie Luiten, Luiten Greenhouse Tech.

Father and son, Michiel and Thom van Spronsen

Kees van Beek with Modiform and Trevor McNeil from A-ROO

Peter Maher with Bluelab. Holdiong the pulse meter to measure EC and moisture content

What's new?!

Isaac Hennen with Atlas Greenhouse

Apogee instruments, specialise in precision instruments/measurements. Ryan Lindsey and Daniel Heath

Nufarm's Reul Heijden and James Crockett

Team PRIVA

The BASF team

Freeman Agnew, Josh DeVries, Don Willis with Jiffy. Read here more about how to overcome growing media chalanges.

Jay Honeycutt andQikwy Grayson standing by the Javo Evobasic

Busy at the DeCloet booth, Brian Gandy with Valoya, Greg Stone BFG, Patrick Gelineau with De Cloet Greenhouse Manufacturing and Dave Mummert with BFG.

Darren Murray with ET Grow and Martien van Zanten from van Zanten Floral

Cropdefenders team

Team Modine

Sanders Zuidgeest van Steenks en Olaf Mos from Gakon Netafim

Steve Forkey with FlowVision

Welvidanalage Silva and Thideema Perera with Hayleys Fibre

Jim Black with Certis in conversation with a potetial client

Team AdeptAg seccond from the left Matthias Haakman KG Systems

Loris Gallo AdeptAg

Rich Van Wingerden has a ot of vistitors, Van Wingerden Greenhouse Company

The Svensson Team representing North America at the Cultivate show in Columbus, Ohio. Svensson recently launched 3 new solutions to support growers in reducing energy consumption and maintaining a balanced climate in their greenhouse. Gabrielle Ullrich, Matt Bonavita and Paul Arena with Svensson.

José Morales andCody Seals with Benefical Insectary

Team DENNIS (Formflex)

Peter Kwakernaak, Ryder Lane, Stephen Murch, Oscar Morales with Hoogendoorn. Show casing their intelligent algorithm possibilities

RAYN Growing Systems attends Cultivate 2023 with solutions for spectral research, phenotyping, and LED grow lighting. The RAYN stand includes the Alina luminaire optimized for photobiological research in shelving systems or suspended wire applications. Additional luminaires include the Fotono full spectrum LED replacement for HPS fixtures, as well as the affordable Lyda bar lighting solution. Visitors can also get a demo of the Syrcadia software, providing granular spectral control for grow light systems. The RAYN booth also includes a sneak peek of the RAYN Vision System, a compact, multispectral camera used to analyze plant material with more information than the human eye can see

Ron Sims with Arbojet

The Prospiant team

Molly Dishman and Tamara Barlett with Barlett Instrument Company, promoting their environmental controls

Ridder Team in the middle Marcel Vyverberg and Norma Wohlman with V-Maxx

The Ridder team are showing their drives, screens, and Fertigation/climate controls

Feel like playing some chess?

Cesare Ghizzi with Idromeccanica Lucchini

IUNU announced there partnership with Corvus Drones to provide value for BEVO

Cord Nunez with HPNow

Scott Streling is giving a live demonstration at the RAMM booth

Davey Rock and Hoshang Subawalla with Moleaer andJaen-Fhilippe Rose and Sacha Koessler with the Richel Group

Prins USA

Steve Collins with Freshlight. FreshLight introduces a new UV C boom light. It will eliminate viruses, pathogens, and bacteria. Greatly reduce your plant loss, and mitigate insects.

Lots of interest at the Lubing booth

Ton Versteeg and Rob de Wit with Bom Greenhouses

Ton van Dijk and Joek van der Zeeuw with van Dijk Heating

Michael Hanan and Sam Soltaninejad with Sollum Tech, visiting the show. Sollum is expanding their Business in the US

Pieter Kruijt from Verkade Climate

Ruud Schenkels with the Gier Drivesystems

Peter Olivier giving a speech at the Phormium party

Custom-made fabrics and the manual chainweel drive are what Fiberlane is promoting at the show. Thomas Woermer and Saskia Reimann

The Syngenta team

Premier Tech, celebrating their 100 th anniversary — Premier Tech, celebrating their 100
th anniversary

AGILO is what ARaymond is promoting at the show. The great thing about this tree fastening system is reusable and adaptable to tree size. Jordi Barrio

The Micro Grow team Here the last press release that Kelley Nicholson joined the team.

Rémy and Whit Allen with SpectaGrow

Gord Bonisteel with CEAd

Cor Bremmer and Jack Ford from ErfGoed are having a nice chat

Ruud Schenkels with De Gier, Peter Stuyt, James Whalen and Artur Kroon with Total Energy Group

Steven Wilson and Kelvin Stokes with Haifa North America

Pulessa Calvan with Plant-Prod

Miguel Redondo and Brian Harris with Hort Americas

Clint Stolard, Tom Contrisciano and John Hoban with ICL

Marc Knulst wiht Mprise Agriware

Mike Rider and Ben Verroche with Paul Boers manufacturing

Genap Canada's Willem Ligthart and Dirk van Regteren. Here their lates article.

Van der Ende Group,AiRMIX, controlled ventilation/circulation system.Abe Wiebe UF Eniversal, Jeroen de Wit vabn der Ende and Randy Redekop — Van der Ende Group,AiRMIX, controlled ventilation/circulation system.
Abe Wiebe UF Eniversal, Jeroen de Wit vabn der Ende and Randy Redekop

Duncan Holmes, James Montgomery and Chelsea Bailey with SBI Software

Jelmer Huizing withHAWE and Thomas Wennekers from Kubo

Patrick Carroll with Wivid holding the SLIM, the small propagation light

The BioSafe Systems celebrating their 25 anniversary

Teddy Popkin and Camille Hanna with Skytree

Steen Beyer andSoren Kristensen with Viemose DGS

Vittorio Genuardie with Idromeccania Lucchini

Naom Dekel with Grow Director

The team of Specialty Corp Farm Labor. They provide coverage for farms with H-2A program. Every year more and more workers from abroad entering the USA. The program is strictly for seasonal farms, including horticulture. Labor increasingly more hard to find. “Young don’t want to do the seasonal work and there are not enough.”

The team of T.O. Plastics celebrating their 57 anniversary with a reception on the first day of the show. At their booth they were launching 4 new products, namely the POPagation Station, Pint Square Pot with tag slot and carry tray, 144 - Hexagon plug tray and Embossed square pot.

The team of Oasis presenting their new Oasis Plug Tray and their aeromax Plug Tray. Both will be launched in October, November. More on this later in on FloralDaily.

Klaas-Jan De Ruiter and Bruers of HollandGaas.

Steve Bogarde, John Driver and Brian Guess of ProFarm, soon they will launch Bointify, a biopesticide.

Jim Grob of Quick Plug, Ross Chester of Profile Products and Jamie Chittum of Quickplug. Quickplug is part of of Profile Products.

Part of the team of McHutchinson Vaughan.

Many guests at the Dutch Embassy reception

Of course food and drinks were served at the Dutch Embassy party.

Piotter Norwa of AB Cultivars, Eloy Boon of Iribov, with Marcel Zimmermann of Vitroflora at the Dutch Embassy recption.

Embassy party.

Sven Hoping of Pöppelmann TEKU holding a new baseline pot made from post industrial and post consumer materials. “Increasingly more growers are asking for circular solutions.”

Ton van Arnhem, Agricultural Counselor at Royal Netherlands Embassy, Washington DC, opening the traditional Embassy reception on the first day of the show.

Alina Harastasanu of JobsOhio about how they can help companies with internationalisation abroad.

Robin van der Schaaf of 2Plant International, Wim Kleine of Kapiteyn. Carlo Randag of Heritage Greenhouse products and Lennert Kapiteijn of Kapiteyn at the embassy reception.

Jeroen de Kuijer of Royal Brinkman and Luit Mazereeuw of Evanthia at the embasssy reception.

Marc Staring of Meteor Systems, Stephen Murch of Hoogendoornd America, Steve Klijn of and Den Donk Farms.

Rob de Wit of Bom Greenhouses and Jeroen de Wit of Van der Ende Group.

Mark van Duyn of Unex, member of ThinkPlants, Joey Huffman of Kebol and Leon van Erven of Vitro Westland also visiting the show.

We go back to the show, organized by AmericanHort.

Frans-Peter Decherif of Corvus Drones, a Dutch company that supplies drones to monitor crops in the greenhouse.

Len Logsdon of Control Dekk in front of Genisis and their newly introduced Boom. It easy to install and the Boom accuracy is due to CNC. At the show they were looking for a name for this new boom.

Sarah Moorgate of Fine Americas, specialists in PGR’s .

The team of SePro. They specialise in insecticides, fungicides, and PGR’s for the ornamental market.

The team of McConkey presenting their post consumer PET planting pot. “We are the only company in North America that produces 100% post consumer RPET pots.”

And Philips lights!

The team of Fertil USA, presenting the Fertil pots and their new Pot and tray combination, a 7x 12 cm biodegradable air pruning pot.

Fertil USA, presenting the Fertil pots and their new Pot and tray combination, a 7x 12 cm biodegradable air pruning pot.

Kevin Wharton of Landmark Plastic with their new 11 inch hanging basket. It is a 1.75 gallon container and has 3 different attachments of the hanger; it can do wire hanger, in the rim and over the rim. It has castle draining and it has a shiny finish. On top of that, is injection molded therefore reusable.”

Jimmy Howard and Eric Clifton of BioWorks Inc presenting Rootshield Plus, a biological root preventative product and BotryStop WP, a Ulocladium, a foliar biofungicide.

The team of BlueLab, presenting the Pulsemeter and the Trincheon.

Exhibition floor.

Joe Parente of A-Roo with the multi carry pack of Voges. A-ROO is their North American distributor for over 25 years. “Growers are looking for solutions to send plants via e-commerce.” The one that Joe is holding is very popular, with the new stadium pot.

Hans Dramm of Dramm Corporation next to the Drammatic liquid fertiliser and in in front of their water accessories display.

Kurt Becker of Dramm Corperation with the new Dramm Outdoors, a new irrigation system. “It has a nozzle and a plumbing that is easy to assemble and disassemble. The nozzle provides excellent coverage.”

Carlos Bogram, senior technical manager at OHP, promoting all of their products, including the conventional and the biological.

The team of Lallemand presenting Laguard M52, available in granular and oil.

The team of Kemin Crop Technologies, a manufacturer of biological crop protection products, insecticides and fertilisers.

Alison Hollingsworth of BFG with Petchoa Caliburst Yellow of which they supply the plugs.

The team of Agrolux. On left managing director, Fred Bosch, the others are probably all familiar faces to you.

Fred Bosch of Hawthorne & Dwight Hunter of Agrolux

Of course some nice food and drinks at the Phormium party.

The Phormium party. 10 years ago, they started in the US.

The team of MPS and LetsGrow. They have a partnership and are focusing on the Hortifootprint calculator. In the picture Winny van Heijningen of LetSGrow, Charlotte Smit and Maik Mandemaker of MPS and visitor Lloyd Traven from Peace Tree Farms.

The Phormium party. 10 years ago, they started in the US.

Jan-Willem Wieringa and Miriam Kolen of Desch Plantpak were also visiting the show.

Doug Borrow of Biobee talking with a visitor.

Steve Perry talking with a visitor

Tyler Royster and Rich Williams if Birchmeier presenting their new REC 15/AS 1200 battery blower combo. It is a blower for many applications, for nurseries, pest control, herbicide fungicides, sprays from a few feet up until 42 feet.

Meetings at Jade Systems.

Kelsey Stevens of Prudac Americas holding Tiny Temptations Orange, a very sweet Orange cherry tomato. It is a FleuroSelect Golden Medal winner.

The team of AmericanHort, the national association of nurseries and greenhouses and also the organisers of Cultivate.

Owen Diller of East Jordan Plastics holding the Stadium Flower pot. The stadium has 3 new sizes namely 1 pint deep, 5 inch and a 6 inch low.

The team of SQM, a manufacturer of fertilisers headquartered in Chile.

Richard Meule of The HC companies holding the Low-Profile Tray, which was launched at Cultivate. It more sustainable as it has 30% less plastic, made from polypropylene, so more readily recyclable and labor saving for the grower as we package and shop it like this.

Joey Viegas, Les Grafton, and Kevin Strickland of BioTherm with C-Gen, a new on demand CO2 generation machine.

Kevin Strickland with BioTherm’s Dissolves Oxygen System DOS-X.

Basilio Hiang and William Chang of Luton’s Enterprise, presenting AnsiP technology which is for post harvest solutions. They recently opened a new office in the US, named Lytone Enterpirse USA inc.