Hoogendoorn & Koppert webinar celebrates 50 years of experience

The year 2017 is a special year for Koppert Biological Systems and Hoogendoorn Growth Management, as it marks the 50^th anniversary of both companies, according to a press release. Being partners, their joint expertise has led to various successful international projects, according to the release. The two companies will organize the next webinar ‘Assimilates balance’ together on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017.

This 60-minute webinar is the 2nd webinar of the Hoogendoorn and Partners Webinar Series on ‘Next Generation Growing’, consisting of four webinars. The first webinar on plant empowerment was organized with partner LetsGrow.com on October 5. In this previous webinar the three plant balances that mainly determine the growth processes of a plant were introduced: the water balance, the energy balance, and the assimilates balance. In the following webinar, Koppert and Hoogendoorn will discuss the assimilates balance in more detail.

When?            Wednesday October 25, 2017
Where?           Online
Duration?        60 minutes
What                Assimilates balance

Time?              9 am or 3 pm (CET)

What you will learn during this webinar?

• How does the assimilates balance of plants work?
• How to monitor and control the assimilates balance?
• What is the impact of the assimilates balance on crop health?
• How to maintain your crop more resilient?

Sign up for the webinar 'Assimilates balance' on October 25 here.

Did you miss the first webinar ‘Plant empowerment’? Download the whitepaper on plant empowerment here.

Speakers
The joint webinar will be presented by René Beerkens, greenhouse climate consultant at Hoogendoorn and Mark van der Werf, crop consultant at Koppert i.a.

Mark van der Werf, Koppert     

Born and raised on a Cucumber farm, Mark van der Werf has been contaminated with “green fingers” at a young age. With nearly 20 years of experience in growing cucumbers and (snack) tomatoes, Mark focused more and more on new growing developments: The Next Generation Growing, plant juice analyses for steering fertilization and dosing microorganisms and bio stimulants for a stronger and healthier (more resilient) crop. Since 2016 started as a crop consultant for Koppert i.a. to help growers worldwide to make their crop more resilient. 

René Beerkens, Hoogendoorn  

As a greenhouse grower’s son, it is no surprise that René Beerkens has a passion for Horticulture. René joined Hoogendoorn in 2000 to combine his interest for computers and horticulture as a consultant and trainer with a focus on data driven growing. His daily job is to help growers around the world to optimize their greenhouse climate, irrigation and energy controls. This is done by digitizing growers' experience based on ‘green thumb’ feelings into strategically chosen digital set points on the Hoogendoorn climate controls.