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No Legal Limit of Residues on the Flowers You Buy
Pesticide Residue on Flowers: The Gap No One Talks About For food there are strict residue limits. For flowers there are none. That gap is finally being noticed, and the sector that gets ahead of it will own the trust.
How the Industry Can Strike a Balance Between Floriculture and Food Security.
Floriculture and Food Security – How Can the Industry Strike a Balance? The flower industry is a structural pillar of national economies. And yet food insecurity runs deep in most of the flower-producing countries.
IFTEX 2026 Arnold Wittkamp
What Nairobi Told Us at IFTEX 2026 The answers to five questions from IFTEX 2026 said more about the future of floriculture than any panel could.
AI Has Reached Floriculture
Is the Flower Business Ready for Agentic AI? Marc Andreessen says we quietly crossed AGI. Floriculture has not noticed. Here is what I built inside a flower business, and where serious growers and breeders should start.
Sustainability With Soul
Our Enemies Are Not Bad People. They Are Bad Ideas. The flower and plant sector has spent a decade on the receiving end of one idea: local is good, imported is bad, less is moral. The people carrying it are often sincere. The idea itself is destructive. A case for sustainability with soul, not sustainability as guilt.
Thursd Shop
Thursd Shop Is Coming – Direct Sourcing for European Florists Thursd Shop connects quality-focused florists across Europe directly with verified flower growers. Origin transparency, fresher product, and a sourcing story your customers will actually remember.
Thursd Now How It Works
May 07 | 6 min read
From Grower to Florist No Detours
From Farm to Florist: How Kenyan Growers Can Build More Value Kenya's flower farms have built production excellence on a global scale. The next step is owning more of the value around those flowers. Thursd Shop opens a direct, curated channel from grower to florist.
Cut Flowers Thursd Now
May 06 | 8 min read
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Thursd en Español: Reaching the Spanish-Speaking Floral World Thursd has launched its full Spanish-language platform at thursd.com/es, bringing floral stories, industry news, and professional content to more than 500 million Spanish speakers.
Thursd Now
Apr 22 | 5 min read
Spraying pesticides on Roses
Why the Flower Sector Can No Longer Afford to Stay Silent Investigative journalist Geesje Rotgers has spent a decade correcting misinformation about agriculture and ornamental growing. Her message is direct: silence is not safety. It is a choice the sector can no longer afford to make.
American Floral Endowment’s Sustainabloom Study Affirms That Sustainability in Floriculture Is a Shared Responsibility, but Not a Uniform Priority Across the Sector Segments.
New Study Shows Floriculture Sustainability Is a Shared Vision With Sector-Specific Approaches There is no single blueprint for sustainable practice across the floral supply chain. While the sectors are tightly connected commercially, their individual environmental focus areas largely diverge.
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The Quiet Giants of Floriculture: Is Vertical Integration the Future? Redefining genetics-to-bouquet strategies and transforming global supply chains.
Creative Soil: How Floriculture Can Lead the Way Out of Our Collective Creativity Crisis
Creative Soil: How Floriculture Can Lead the Way Out of Our Collective Creativity Crisis When we lose creativity in floriculture, we lose more than beautiful flowers.
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