Van Lipzig Tuinderijen Tracking dew point at crop-level Van Lipzig Tuinderijen is a Dutch commercial cucumber grower, operating on 8.5 hectares. Growing cucumbers on an area that spans about 17 soccer fields, the company grows 240 cucumbers per square meter, and is active between January and November of every year. The company was established in January 2008 in Californië, a development facility which rents greenhouse space to agricultural entrepreneurs on a private basis. Van Lipzig chose to grow at Californië because of the large space it offered, as well as the facility’s high sustainability standards. Cultivation manager Peter van Ninhuys checks the crop-level dew point of cucumbers by monitoring temperature and humidity in combination with object temperature. To capture real-time dew

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