Today is the final day of Cultivate 2025 and despite the challenges the industry is dealing with, we're also happy to share positive news - it might not all be as bad as it sometimes seems, concluded Charlie Hall in his keynote speech about the state of the industry, referring to slower, but still strong growth and new growers finding their way in, and staying here. And of course, we found some great news on the trade show floor.
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Paige Cusma and Krystle Klink of A-ROO
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Paul Bull of Bull Plant Genetics, showing the Sun Magic Echinacea Petite Burgundy
Automation remains an important topic in the sector and they have known it at Argus for years. The tean showed TITAN Envoy, their cloud-based user interface for desktop and mobile software to access to your TITAN system as well as control system TITAN Atom.
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New in the BioSafe assortment is Biophyter, an endophytic Beauveria Bassina based solution supporting plant performance and vitality.
The trolleys were on display at the A-Roo booth, but what's around it is also highly interesting: the shrink wraps, sold in two types now, one with and one without holes, to improve ventilation when shipping plants.
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Marc Driessen and Jeroen Steenbergen of Beekenkamp Plants
We're doing our utmost best to capture as many photos as possible and will publish our photo report later this week, but first it's once more trade show time!!