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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…