Tag: grower
Fruit grower Wim continues to welcome migrant workers with open arms: ‘They are loyal, hard workers’
The harvest may be a bit disappointing this year due to the weather, but there are still plenty of pears to pick at Wim Oskam’s fruit farm. Every year around…
Environment or cherries: with the ban on pesticides, the grower has no alternative
Even with new chemical agents, there appears to be no solution in sight in the short term. “We’ve been experimenting with bait sprayswhere you add chemicals to a substance that…
Cherry grower: ‘The end of Dutch cherry cultivation can be prevented, enforce stricter!’
New policy ensures that cherry growers will no longer be allowed to use some pesticides in the future. Large (family) companies in the Krommerijn region anticipate the collapse of Dutch…
Cherry grower calls on government to review decision: ‘This is the end of cherry cultivation in the Netherlands, start enforcement’
He makes no secret of the fact that Erik Vernooij is frustrated. He proudly shows the rows of cherry trees from his family business. According to the cherry grower, it…
9 million for Veenendaal algae grower, the food of the future?
Meat substitutes, pasta and noodles: they are all made from microalgae. In the future, these algae will be used on a larger scale in the food industry, which is better…
Scent revealed suspected cannabis grower
Published: Less than 10 min ago fullscreen The Gothenburg police managed to sniff out a cannabis cultivation. Archive image. Photo: Charlie Riedel/AP/TT In April 2021, a police patrol in Gothenburg…
Scent revealed suspected cannabis grower
Now a man suspected of growing both cannabis and hallucinogenic mushrooms is charged. The smell of cannabis had brought the police to the man’s house, writes Gothenburg Post. As the…
Spraying, spraying, spraying: this is how fruit grower Oskam saved his ‘boiling apples’ during the heat
These were exciting days for fruit grower Wim Oskam from Werkhoven during the heat last week. On extremely hot days, his apples reached a temperature of over 40 degrees. “That…
There is a significant market for Loofah sponges, says one grower
Breadcrumb Trail Links Provincial News They are popular as an alternative to using ocean sponges, but are also edible Author of the article: Valerie MacDonald • Ontario Farmer After growing…