Randwijk, March 19, 2025 Technological innovations for sustainable and efficient fruit cultivation The final results of The Next Fruit 4.0 project were presented at the Fruit Research Center (FRC) in…

Where innovation meets application From 5 to 7 February, Berlin was the place to be for the global fruit sector. Orchard of the Future was there to join forces with…

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…

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 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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…