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Presentation Orchard of the Future partnermeeting April 11th 2023
WA and NL CaWaDu introduction
Presentation Orchard of the Future Visit Dec 21
Collaboration agreement Orchard of the Future
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The Next Fruit 4.0 Symposium
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Randwijk, March 19, 2025 Final results The Next Fruit 4.0 presented: technological innovations for sustainable and efficient fruit cultivation Today, the final results of the project The Next Fruit 4.0…
NXTGEN Consortium Day
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First Successful Consortium Day for the Dutch Fruit SectorOn December 6th, the first consortium day for the Dutch fruit sector with international aspirations took place at Proeftuin Randwijk, a research…
Dutch Delegation Summer Tour in WA State
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International Cooperation and Innovation in the Fruit Sector In July, the “Orchard of the Future” program visited Washington State, with a Dutch delegation of fruit growers, cultivation advisors, technology companies…
Video link: NL and WA meet-up at the Global Produce and Floral Show
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At the Global Produce and Floral Show in Orlando (October 19-21, 2023), Ton van Arnhem, Agricultural Counselor at the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Washington DC and Rianne Ham, International Marketing Manager…
The Orchard of the Future Program Leadership Team
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The Orchard of the Future collaboration is led by a team of 8 enthusiastic professionals from different organizations on both sides of the ocean: Ines Hanrahan, Joe Davidson, Julia Terlinchamp,...
Testimony of Alex You’s exchange program at Wageningen University & Research Centre
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From April-June 2023, Alex You, who at the time was a Robotics PhD student at Oregon State University (co-advised by Prof.’s Joe Davidson and Cindy Grimm), had the opportunity to...
Orchard of the Future Webpage and LinkedIn account!
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Announcement: We’ve gone social! The Orchard of the Future has a new website! This site serves as a new home for sharing news, activities, and project updates, and for connecting...
Specialty Crop Block Grant available for the Orchard of the Future collaboration
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In September, the team was awarded a grant via the 2023 Specialty Crop Block Grant Program (SCBGP) for a project entitled “Washington State and the Netherlands: Accelerating Innovative Technology Adoption...
Presentation on Robotic Pruning at FIRA USA
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Last September Joe Davidson, a member of the Orchard of the Future program leadership team, gave a short research presentation at FIRA USA 2023 (Salinas, California, USA). The topic of...
Farming on Plant Level with innovative nozzle technology – by BBLeap
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The project of BBLeap with Washington State University will introduce two technologies in Washington State: LeapBox and LeapEye. LeapBox is an innovative nozzle system that consists of hardware, electronics and...
Non-invasive quality assessment of apples – by Vertigo
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This project involves the study of the use of Vertigo’s microwave-based non-invasive sensor for evaluation of internal quality of apples near-harvest and during storage. To do that they collaborate with...
Progress of the three Bilateral Innovation Collaboration projects between the Netherlands and Washington States
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In 2023 three bilateral innovation projects received funding, aiming to speed up the commercialization of innovative technology and the exchange of knowledge between US and Dutch fruit growers and ag...
The Next Fruit 4.0: Economic validation & adoption of innovation
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In The Next Fruit 4.0 project, we not only focus on technology but also pay attention, in the Economic Validation & Adoption of Innovation Work Package, to the socio-economic impact...
The Next Fruit 4.0 Multifunctional Robot Achieves Successful Pear Harvest
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The multifunctional orchard robot use-case has achieved remarkable success in the development of an efficient gripper and detection system tailored for pear picking. Traditionally, research activities on orchard harvesting robots...
The Next Fruit 4.0: Crop & Quality Management Work Package
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In the Crop & Quality Management Work Package of The Next Fruit 4.0-project, the team focuses on making data applicable to the real-life operations of fruit farming. The objective is...
The Next Fruit 4.0: Cooldata Work Package
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In the Cooldata Work Package of The Next Fruit 4.0 project, we are working on identifying the added value of non-destructive measurements. This involves photography, Near InfraRed (NIR) and Microwave...
Welcome to our two new Program Leadership Team members
For orchard growersFor research institutesFor tech companies
We are excited to announce that we have two new members to the Orchard of the Future Program Leadership Team: Julia Terlinchamp of the Washington State Department of Agriculture and…
Good to Know: Progress for the Orchard of the Future
For fundingFor orchard growersFor research institutesFor tech companies
International collaboration around orchard technology begins trials.
Internship assignments Precision Fruit Cultivation – HBO
For orchard growersFor research institutes
In the future, fruit-growing companies will not be able to flourish without precision applications. These applications are needed to make cultivation more sustainable at the same time optimizing production.
‘Orchard of the Future’ effort between the Netherlands, Washington state eyed
For fundingFor orchard growersFor research institutesFor tech companies
In February 2021 partners in Washington state and the Netherlands signed a collaboration agreement focused on the Orchard of the Future. With this agreement the partners, 25 in total, expressed…
