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Inspiring cases & customer stories
The changing world is a huge challenge for global agriculture. Our future health and well-being will largely depend on a successful global transition towards more efficient and sustainable production methods.
At Ridder we love to help farmers and growers achieve this goal. Read the stories of our inspiring customers and special partners here.
“Carefree planning with 20 years of valuable crop data”
Jack Janssen
Dutch tomato grower Sweet Lions grows a large variety of specialty tomatoes on an acreage of 8 hectares. This cultivation is an extensive and labor-intensive crop with a variety of varieties, colors and processing procedures. Crop and quality manager Jack Jansen explains how the grower together with Ridder optimized the production and made processes transparent.
"Partnerships of paramount importance for development of Chinese horticulture"
Sino-Dutch Horti Cooperation
Population growth is a global question, especially in countries in which densely populated areas and megacities are on the rise. Take China for example; a country where topics like food-security and the availability of fossil fuels are high on the agenda. Will building Dutch greenhouses simply solve these issues, or is a different approach required?
"The computer totally revolutionized irrigation"
Agricolas Oliveros
Mexican grower, Agrícola Oliveros, produces high quality specialty grape tomatoes mostly for the US market. It has 10 hectares of poly greenhouses and will soon expand by another five hectares. In 2014 it installed a Ridder HortiMaX CX500 climate control computer to automate the climate and irrigation systems. Owner Ernesto Oliveros says it revolutionized the irrigation system which is now based on the level of solar radiation. Another breakthrough was the ability to control and increase the relative humidity which reduced the problem of green shoulders on the fruit. As well as improving quality, this year the yield was the best ever. The user-friendliness of the CX500 has also been a bonus.
"Smart automation facilitates ambitious seed breeding process"
Axia Seeds
Founded in 2010 by Alois and Sander van Vliet, Axia Seeds, based in the Netherlands, has rapidly evolved into a mature seed-breeding company. According to the latest figures, 10% of Dutch tomatoes are now grown from seeds developed by Axia. Breeding vegetable seeds is precision work. It not only demands a great deal of patience, but also depends on closely monitoring the entire production process to ensure premium quality. Automation is now an integral part of this process, along with Axia's own research laboratory, seed technology and close collaboration with both growers and consultants. Roy Verbeek, in charge of tomato production at two Axia sites, tells us how HortiMaX products - and especially our after-sales service - have made all the difference to their operation.
"Ridder Productive motivates staff and ensures fair pay"
United Farms
With three locations totalling nearly 30ha of greenhouses and around 500 workers, keeping track of everyone’s activities is a job in itself. In 2014 Mexican tomato producer United Farms installed a new version of the Ridder Productive labour and production registration software. This allows more efficient allocation of labour and ensures workers are correctly paid for the jobs they do.
Southshore Greenhouses increases productivity by more than 30 percent with the help of Ridder Productive.
Southshore Greenhouses
Nishan Antaal (general manager) and Luis Sanchez (assistant grower) at Southshore Greenhouses, Kingsville Ontario, present their solution to tackle labour quality issues in this video. Southshore had been searching for ways to increase employee productivity for years, until this forward-thinking operation finally found Ridder Productive.
"Smart adaptive solutions to optimize Chinese solar greenhouses"
Wageningen University & Research
The experimental research facility of Wageningen University & Research in The Netherlands were expanded with a genuine Chinese Solar Greenhouse. The project makes use of adaptive technology of Ridder.
The passive Chinese solar greenhouse relies on solar radiation for its heating and it provides a minimally controlled growing environment. With one million hectares, this typical greenhouse is widely applied in China, which gives all reason for serious research on improvements for this low-tech greenhouse system.
"The crop is in control"
Vine Fresh Acres
As an answer to the growing demand of responsibly produced greenhouse grown cucumbers, Vine Fresh acres of Ruthven, Ontario, broke ground on a 12.5 acre greenhouse in August last year. This 12.5 acre greenhouse currently is producing its first crop with high wire cucumbers that are sold under the Nature Fresh Farms brand. Head grower and operations manager Jake Neufeld of Vine Fresh Acres was so kind to tour us around their brand new operation.
