30MHz is typing… Our extended support team is ready to chat!
At 30MHz we think it’s important that our users can use our platform in an optimal way. At times you may have questions and you would like some help from our support team. Email and our support page filled with helpful articles were your go to’s. But we thought it was time for something extra… […]
New 30MHz connect casing: How we protect your tech
To make sure your dataflow is fully protected, 30MHz introduces a new connect casing: waterproof, dust proof and even resistant to hits. This special shield will last longer and ensure a reliable dataflow from the connected sensor. What does that full protection mean? That’s what we will explain in this article. Watertight: resistant to wetness […]
Three insights from the table talk about data driven growing
Why is it important to have a connecting party when you are collecting data as a grower? And can you collect too much data? Just two of the many topics that were discussed during the table talk of TechnoHouse online tour hosted by Rijk Zwaan. Three experts joined a discussion about data driven growing and […]
Creating a complete dataset in vertical farming solutions
Stacked growing beds full of leafy greens under artificial light and in a mesmerising mist. That’s the description of an indoor vertical farm at LettUs Grow. It’s their mission to bring the point of production closer to the point of consumption and enable anyone to grow food anywhere. This will reduce the waste and carbon […]
Crop consultant: Remote advice is direct and future proof
The single greatest benefit from crop consultancy at a distance? Leo van Uffelen has no doubt: It’s the speed. The crop consultant believes that remote advice is the future in horticulture. Convincing the sector can be tough. But Leo has a weapon: data. Subscribe to our newsletter to read more stories like this Leo works […]
Rijk Zwaan online event: How to use data in growing decisions
We are really happy to announce that we will participate in an online event organised by Rijk Zwaan. On the 27th of May, 30MHz will join a table discussion about Data Driven Growing. Together with two other data experts, we will talk in English about using data to optimise growing strategies. Interested about the use […]
How Brabant Plant grows more valuable data
Brabant Plant connected their climate computer to the 30MHz platform early 2020. This led to valuable benefits. Cultivation researcher Marvin Verkuijlen tells us about his experiences with the integration. “Now it’s easier to compare different compartments.” Brabant Plant is a Dutch family business that focuses on breeding young vegetable plants and pot plants. Apart from […]
Growing cucumbers based on facts instead of assumptions
Drenthe Growers has been using Delphy’s Climate Profiler and Quality Monitoring System (QMS) since december 2019. They use these instruments to grow cucumbers based on facts. Green fingers are essential, but the grower is in need of extra certainty. This is a summarised translation of an article that appeared in Magazine DE Delphy. Peter Bergsma […]
2Grow app and 30MHz offer detailed plant insights to grow smarter
Biotechnology company 2Grow and 30MHz have joined forces to develop smart data tools that provide growers, breeders and researchers with even more detailed insights into the health and needs of their plants. This year they developed a new application: 2Grow Plant Insights. The app is available for free on the 30MHz platform. 2Grow offers sensors […]
Timo Spruijt is 30MHz’s new CCO: ‘Together with growers and partners we innovate’
Timo Spruijt is 30MHz’s new Chief Commercial Officer (CCO). Together with 30MHz Timo wants to take big steps in innovating agriculture and simplify digitalisation in the sector. “Growers and partners can use 30MHz to decide which information is valuable to their business.” Ever since he was young Timo Spruijt worked in agriculture. A sector that […]
New apps and features: 30MHz keeps building on digital horticulture in 2021
This year has learned that it is a huge benefit to be able to share your data. Asking your consultants or colleagues questions and sharing insights from a distance during a global pandemic is easy to do on the 30MHz platform. We saw a huge rise in questions and comments about crops and data during […]
Three platform features that can be beneficial during winter time
As a grower you want to keep up with all the factors that can influence the climate in your greenhouse. There are multiple features within the 30MHz platform that can help you visualize valuable information during the winter. We’ve listed three features that can help you in the colder months. Weather forecast The days are […]
Using crop level data to optimise IPM strategy
Ant Surrage works as a Technical Development Specialist for Fargro. In this article he explains how collecting and visualising crop level and crop walk data can be helpful with the optimisation of an IPM program. Integrated pest management (IPM) is now becoming a mainstay of crop protection. However, although our pest management practices are integrated […]
Break the state of winter recess with the Chill Unit widget
Chill Units (CU) are generally used for fruit trees and flower bulbs. Fruit-bearing trees need a period of cold weather after which a fruit-bearing tree will blossom. Andreas Lypas, propagation manager at Castleton Fruit, explains how he uses chilling units to prepare for winter. Chilling requirement is the number of effective chilling hours needed to […]
How a flower grower uses data to improve the cultivation process
Using sensors to measure the temperature of the leaf or check if you marked the dew point right. Growers can use 30MHz technology to improve their cultivation process at a high precision level. Nico Plasmeijer, Cultivation Specialist at BB Plant in Bleiswijk, uses the data platform on a daily basis and explains how he utilises […]
5 best practices voor digitale tuinbouw in 2020
In het afgelopen decennium heeft de wereld een behoorlijke digitale transformatie doorgemaakt. En deze trend zet stevig door met de toenemende innovaties in alle sectoren, waaronder de tuinbouwsector. We geloven echter dat er op het gebied van digitale tuinbouw nog veel onbenutte mogelijkheden zijn. Wat is digital tuinbouw en waar begin je? We hebben 5 […]
Dutch horticulture gets big compliment from David Attenborough
David Attenborough’s new film ‘A Life On Our Planet’ (that feels like his final tribute) just released on Netflix. In his film, he gives a big compliment to the Netherlands and the Dutch horticulture sector in particular. “Dutch farmers have become experts in getting the most out of every hectare. Increasingly, they’re doing so sustainably,” […]
Next steps in digitisation for Delphy
Data platform supplier 30MHz and research and consultancy company Delphy have entered into a partnership. In addition, Delphy uses the data platform as an analysis tool among its consultants and researchers while at the same time co-developing cultivation-related applications. These in turn will be available to all users of the platform in an app store-like […]
Did you already add these ten horticulture influencers to your feed?
The world has changed completely in recent months. And especially the way in which people communicate with each other. It has been almost completely digitised, and that has a major impact on daily life. Online (social) media are more than ever the place to start a conversation. For example, to catch up on the latest […]
Cultivation variables explained: growing degree units
In this blog, we would like to tell you something about growing degree units (GDH / GDD). The reason we added this to our dashboard is that during a lot of conversations our users often ask for this. Degree hour insights are used to pro-actively control cultivation. Growers however indicate that the calculation is time-consuming […]
Autonomous growing is no longer a far-fetched dream
The Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge has come to an end and we made it to the finish line. Our multidisciplinary team of horticultural experts and computer scientists from Delphy and 30MHz grew healthy cherry tomatoes remotely in 6 month’s time. In this period, we were able to develop the system and models needed to control a […]
Advancing UN Sustainable Development Goals with Digital Agriculture
Digital agriculture — digital and geospatial technologies to monitor, assess and manage soil, climatic and genetic resources — illustrates how to meet sustainability challenges within the agricultural industry. It can help balance the economic, environmental and social dimensions of sustainable food and plant production. Digital agriculture therefore has the potential to advance many of the […]
A conversation with: crop advisor Peter van Os
The work of crop advisors or consultants is often an underexposed subject in horticulture. Especially now, this branch of sport cannot be envied. The usual visits to greenhouses take place partly in a different form and going abroad is not possible at the moment. To discuss the situation of advisers in more detail, we spoke […]
Why we made some changes to customer support
To serve our users in the best possible way, we have changed a number of things with regard to our customer support. Our account managers are no longer the central point of contact for questions. We’ve set up an online FAQ, and assembled a special team that is ready to answer questions within 48 hours. […]
5 digital horticulture practices to bring into 2020
In the past decade we’ve seen the world go through a major digital transformation. And it’s still going strong, with innovations piling up in all industries including the horticulture sector. We do believe there’s still a lot of untapped potential when it comes to digital horticulture. What happens when horticulture goes digital and where do […]
Digital agriculture: an engineer’s perspective
By Flavia Paganelli, Director of Engineering and Co-Founder of 30MHz. When I started working as an IT engineer in Argentina 20 years ago, I never would have guessed I would end up working on building a digital platform for agriculture. But I’m not surprised that 30MHz found its place in this industry. There’s just so […]
Growing cherry tomatoes remotely
Together with Delphy and Wageningen University, 30MHz will be participating in the Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge this year as part of team Automators. The challenge is to grow a cherry tomato crop remotely in 6 months’ time. The tomatoes will not only be judged by their looks, but also by their taste. We’re competing against 4 […]
30MHz and Fargro partner with NextGen Fruit Group
Our partner Fargro Ltd, a leading wholesaler and supplier of commercial horticultural products, and 30MHz have become a co-sponsor of networking and education organisation NextGen Fruit Group, alongside its partner 30MHz. The two companies will both become AgriTech Partners of NextGen, a pioneering group that provides networking, training and development opportunities for young people working […]
5 years of 30MHz – our CEO’s story
This month we celebrate our 5th anniversary and so much has happened since our founding. In this interview with our CEO Jurg van Vliet, we look back at 30MHz’s achievements and forward to what we aim to do for the agricultural ecosystem and the world. How would you describe 30MHz in a single tweet? 30MHz […]
Data-driven seed and breeding industries: from fiction to fact
30MHz shows ZENSIE benefits during Seed Meets Technology Seed Valley, an area in the Netherlands where numerous seed companies are located, is automating more and more processes. But there is still a lot to gain when it comes to digitizing the complete production line. The seed industry, which is known for applying the latest technologies, […]
Integrating the human element with manual input
Data is always most powerful when it’s combined from a variety of sources. The more context you have available to you, the more informed your decision-making. Well documented, easy to explore information is always an asset, whether it’s validating tried and tested methods, providing extra support to a hunch, or creating the space for an […]
Madestein’s Jonathan Zwinkels on integrating climate control with 30MHz
Since it was founded by two husband and wife teams in 1982, Madestein UK has earned its reputation as a leading supplier of Leafy Salads and Herbs across the United Kingdom. The company currently focuses on growing whole head lettuce (round lettuce, curly leaf lettuce, red butterhead lettuce) and fresh basil and the propagation of […]
Silos are for grain, not data
We make technology for agribusiness. And we’re as serious about the “agri” as we are about the “business,” because they’re inextricably linked. By providing technology to horticulture, we’re helping our customers orchestrate and balance nature, technology and the flow of information. Data-driven approaches to all aspects of growing crops, from cultivation to sustainability or pest […]
ZENSIE for crisis communications
ZENSIE is a platform built for collaboration around data. That means making it easy to work with a variety of data sources (sensor data, climate control, traceability insights) and making it simple and intuitive to discuss and explore that data with colleagues, wherever they might be. The ability to engage, together, on real-time and historical […]
Tackling pests and disease in an environment that’s anything but uniform
Readers of this month’s edition of The Grower, the technical journal for horticulture published by the AHDB might recognise a familiar image: the pointed microclimate sensor from 30MHz. In a contributed article, Ant Surrage, Technical Development Specialist at Fargro, goes in depth on the importance of quality data when crafting an integrated pest management (IPM) programme. […]
In-platform collaboration can tackle industry-wide challenges
Here’s what we believe: to serve the horticultural sector well, an agridata platform needs to make comparing locations easy– whether those locations are down the road, across the country, or across the globe. If you follow us on social media, you’re likely to have seen photos from a whole range of greenhouses and indoor farms working with […]
30MHz in the news: KAVB data pilots
The Royal General Bulb Growers’ Association (KAVB) has just announced two data-oriented pilots, aimed at providing entrepreneurs with insights to improve business within the sector. The two pilots, “measure and monitor” and “track and trace” bring the benefits of digital agriculture to the association, which has about 1200 members, most of them bulb growers, bulb forcers […]
Calling UK growers: this is the future of soft fruit
Next week, our very own Steve Archer will join speakers from VDH Foliekassen, CMW Horticulture, NFU Energy and Priva to share insights and experiences with forward-looking soft fruit growers who want to extend their growing season and learn how to implement the latest technologies for climate and irrigation control, energy saving and increased production. Steve […]
Your data is ready for its close-up
Well, it’s the start of a new year and we’re already zoomin’ through product updates. First on the list: data zoom. You can never get too granular with data exploration, so to make things a bit more detailed and easy to explore, we’ve added a feature to let you dive further into a set of […]
Allow us to (re-)introduce ourselves
These days, we meet many of our new customers via social media. We love that— it’s real, it’s conversational, and it’s to the point. When we ‘meet’ a new customer over social media, it means that something we’ve shared resonates, and we’ve clicked with a member of our extended community. That ‘something’ might be a […]
Fine Tuning the components of IPM: a conversation with Fargro’s Ant Surrage
Ant Surrage is a technical development specialist at Fargro. We spoke with him about integrated pest management, the challenges facing greenhouse growers, and where technology — and most importantly, data — can help inform strategy and fight disease. What are the challenges growers face when developing an IPM strategy? Application uncertainty has been a […]
Have we mentioned mentions?
No one ever said that agriculture was a slow-paced industry. (And if they did, they were mistaken) ZENSIE is growing and evolving to keep up with growers’ needs. New customers are joining the platform daily, and we’re releasing new features and updates on a weekly basis. Thanks to the consistent input from our community, the […]
Sensory data makes pest management smarter, and more cost-effective
The 30MHz team is constantly discovering new applications of sensory data across horticulture and agriculture. Customers are using live and historical data— captured predominantly by wireless sensors— to make better decisions increasing productivity, reducing waste, refocusing and optimizing manpower, saving resources and improving yield quality. The 30MHz agri-data platform provides a quick and precise feedback […]
Keep your agri-data on brand with customisable themes
There’s so many ways to work with 30MHz technology. Some of our customers use the ZENSIE platform to work across teams and locations within their agri-business. Others use ZENSIE to share certain data with partners and peers across the chain. Some use the platform to power their consultancies— sharing knowledge remotely in groups. Flexible data […]
Piñata Farms collaborates on a global scale with 30MHz
Australia’s largest pineapple producer, Piñata Farms started with a single pineapple farm in Queensland in the 1960s. Today it is the only year-long supplier of fresh pineapples, a leading producer of summer and winter strawberries, and with joint venture partner, BerryWorld Group, produce specialty berries for BerryWorld Australia. 30MHz and its local partner in Australia, […]
Easily gauge your sensor values with this new widget
Accurate, real-time sensory data is crucial to running an efficient, cost-effective agribusiness. It informs decision making around everything from irrigation, lighting and IPM strategy, to hiring new team members and setting their agendas, and can help improve crop quality, cut energy costs, and help streamline knowledge sharing across departments and locations. How data is expressed […]
We’re not done being excited about VPD
Can there be such a thing as a “hot new metric?” We’ve been hearing (and reading) innovative growers talking about the relevance of vapour pressure deficit (VPD) for a while now. We’re seeing the difference monitoring VPD has made to our customers’ crop performance, and we’re always glad to see the word spreading. Earlier this […]
Make sure your colleagues get the picture with image comments
When we speak to our customers, we tend to take notes. We’re a tech company, so those notes tend to be digital, but if they were on paper they’d have “teamwork is key” underlined ten times and circled in red. Because every conversation we have, this is a key takeaway. There are so many combined […]
Sharing agri-data in groups just got even easier.
We’re on a bit of a roll here at 30MHz. We released an updated version of our ZENSIE platform a few weeks ago, and since then we just can’t seem to stop rolling out new functionalities to make collaboration around agri-data even easier. Last week, we introduced social feeds. Today, we’ve made it easy to […]
Agritech is great, but what’s the ROI?
What’s the ROI of data-driven agriculture? What are the benefits of real-time, remote monitoring for agribusinesses? How does a collaborative data platform help you have a better harvest? When you’ve developed technology you’re excited about (like we have) that’s helping real customers (over 180 of them) be more productive, you want to put some of the big […]