Food security
Domestic production capacity matters more as supply chains, trade conditions and geopolitics become less predictable.
Agricultural infrastructure starts with the plant
Build the start.
Change the harvest.
Planteva produces healthier, more uniform seedlings and young plants so established greenhouse and field growers can produce more reliably from the land, labour and infrastructure they already have.
↓PLANTEVA FARMS · MONTRÉALPROPAGATION → GREENHOUSE → FIELD
OUR MISSION
Why Planteva exists
Improve how the world grows food by perfecting how every crop begins.
20+ years
of experience across greenhouse and controlled-environment agriculture behind the platform.
5+ years
of focused propagation-system development, refinement and commercial validation.
40+ varieties
evaluated through structured crop trials and commercial trial work.
WHY THIS MATTERS NOW
Agriculture carries more
with fewer resources.
Food production is essential economic and social infrastructure. Planteva helps established growers produce dependable food as climate, labour and resource pressures intensify.
Climate resilience
Growers need healthier, more uniform plants that can establish reliably as weather and production conditions become more variable.
Labour pressure
Agriculture must produce more consistently while skilled farm labour becomes harder and more expensive to secure.
Resource productivity
Land, water, fertilizer, energy and crop-protection inputs must generate more saleable food with less loss.
ONE BETTER START→HEALTHIER ESTABLISHMENT→MORE PRODUCTIVE CROPS→MORE RESILIENT AGRICULTURE
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THE PLANTEVA PLATFORM
The overlooked stage
that shapes everything after it.
Every commercial crop begins with a small plant. Its health, root development, uniformity and readiness at transplant influence establishment, crop timing and downstream performance. Planteva centralizes that early stage in a purpose-built controlled environment, then delivers the finished plant into the grower's existing production system.
“The lesson from two decades in controlled-environment agriculture was consistent: better facilities and better technology cannot fully compensate for an inconsistent plant.”
Planteva was created to solve that foundational problem at commercial scale—combining plant science, environmental control, automation and disciplined operating protocols in one dedicated nursery platform.
Start the crop on specification.
Uniform roots, plant health and readiness help growers fill valuable production space with greater consistency.
Carry quality beyond transplant.
The first weeks can influence months of greenhouse performance—or the critical establishment window in the field.
Make the existing system work harder.
When more plants reach productive potential, each acre, litre, labour hour and piece of infrastructure produces more value.
ONE STRONGER START · MANY GROWING SYSTEMS
Planteva controls the beginning.
Growers keep growing their way.
The plant moves from a controlled Planteva propagation facility into the commercial system it was prepared for—from long-cycle greenhouses to strawberries and mechanized row-crop production.
01 · CONTROL THE STARTA more reliable beginning.
Crop-specific conditions and disciplined tray handling create a repeatable commercial plant.
02 · CARRY IT FORWARDPerformance that compounds.
Healthy, uniform plants enter valuable production space ready to establish and perform.
03 · MOVE AT SCALEBuilt for modern agriculture.
Uniform plants fit the equipment, timing and workflow commercial growers already use.
CONTROLLED PROPAGATION→HEALTHY, UNIFORM PLANTS→RESILIENT COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION
INSIDE A PLANTEVA FARM
A nursery designed
as a production system.
Climate, light, irrigation, tray movement and crop protocols work as one operating system to deliver consistent plant quality, repeatable output and a dependable handoff to the grower.
CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENTTRAY-SPECIFIC IRRIGATIONSTANDARDIZED CROP FLOWDYNAMIC LIGHT + CLIMATE
Plant health first
Clean, controlled early-stage production reduces biological pressure before plants enter valuable greenhouse or field capacity.
Consistency by design
Stable climate, individual-tray irrigation, dynamic lighting and standardized workflows reduce batch-to-batch variability.
Built for growers
Ready-to-transplant plants arrive at the defined stage and fit the greenhouse or field system the grower already uses.
Knowledge that compounds
Every crop cycle strengthens the protocols, quality standards and production intelligence shared across the network.
AGRICULTURE IS ESSENTIAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Food production is
economic resilience.
These figures show the scale of the agricultural systems that depend on plant health, reliable labour and productive use of land and water.
Canada · protected agriculture$2.7B
2024 greenhouse fruit and vegetable farm-gate value
A concentrated food-production sector where crop consistency, labour efficiency and reliable starts matter at national scale.
California · strawberries45,000harvested acres in 2024
A high-value crop system where plant health, transplant quality and efficient land use are economically consequential.
California · field tomatoes238,700harvested acres in 2024
Large-scale field agriculture depends on uniform transplants, mechanized planting and predictable establishment.
WHEN AGRICULTURE PERFORMScommunities gain more dependable food·growers remain competitive·regional supply chains become more resilient
FROM PLANT TO PRODUCTIONCONSISTENCY AT COMMERCIAL SCALE
THE DOWNSTREAM MULTIPLIER
Change the plant.
Improve the system.
Planteva improves an input growers already use. When a healthier, more uniform plant produces more saleable crop from the same footprint, land, water, fertilizer and crop-protection inputs become more productive per unit harvested.
REAL-WORLD QUÉBEC TRIALS25% more harvest yield from the same land.
Recent commercial field work in Québec has already exceeded this conservative benchmark, reaching 29.8% in one romaine variety and production plot. Each program is tailored to the crop, variety, receiving environment and grower, then improved over successive cycles.
WHAT 25% CAN MEAN AT SCALEFour fields in.
Four fields in.
Five fields' worth out.
At the conservative 25% case, the same footprint yields the equivalent of one additional field. The illustrations below apply that relationship at commercial scale.
FOUR FIELDS TODAY
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+1NEW FIELD
Result: five fields of food—but also more land, water and farm inputs.
SAME FOUR FIELDS
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5 fields' worthSAME LAND · SAME INPUT BASE
Result: 25% more saleable crop without adding a fifth field or expanding the input base.
THE TAKEAWAYEvery four acres can produce what five acres produce today.
The 2026 commercial romaine trial measured a 29.8% improvement.
THE WATER EQUIVALENT · SHOWN AT REAL SCALEThis is what 46 billion gallons looks like.
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR WATER?≈1.2 Lake Perris
The modeled water-use equivalent is about 46 billion gallons—slightly more than the capacity of the Southern California reservoir shown here.
ILLUSTRATIVE WATER EQUIVALENT140,790 acre-feet≈LAKE PERRIS REFERENCE121,745 acre-feet
California Department of Water Resources ↗The extra production would equal what is normally grown on approximately 46,300 acres.
The original amount of food could be grown using approximately 37,050 fewer acres.
Producing one kilogram of saleable crop would require about 20% less land, water and other farm inputs.
Method: Both views apply the same 25% productivity improvement to a 741,000-acre reference footprint using 3.8 acre-feet of water per acre. Equivalents are rounded.
WHERE THE START KEEPS MATTERINGONE PLANT · A FULL COMMERCIAL CYCLE
THE LONG-CYCLE MULTIPLIER
A seedling becomes a year-long production asset.
In long-cycle greenhouse crops, the plant selected at transplant can remain in premium production space for approximately 12 months. A stronger, more uniform start can influence establishment, canopy development, plant health and repeated harvests throughout that entire cycle.
ONE BETTER START → A FULL COMMERCIAL CROPUniform roots, plant health and vigour enter the greenhouse.
More even establishment supports a consistent productive canopy.
Consistency can influence fruit set, sizing, quality and pack-out.
Plant health and uniformity continue to matter as the crop carries final yield.
NO GROWER RETROFITSame greenhouse or fieldSame labour systemSame crop-production equipment
BETTER PLANT→MORE SALEABLE OUTPUT→LESS INPUT PER UNIT→LOWER ENVIRONMENTAL INTENSITY
A REGIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE MODEL
Build locally.
Learn globally.
Propagation is most useful when it is close enough to understand regional crops, growing conditions and delivery requirements. Planteva's network model combines local production with shared crop knowledge and a common quality standard.
Montréal
Commission the first commercial platform and build a repeatable production standard in Québec.
Eastern Canada
Support greenhouse, indoor and field growers with consistent regional propagation capacity.
California
Apply the platform to high-value strawberries, vegetables and mechanized field-transplant programs.
British Columbia
Serve a concentrated protected-crop sector spanning tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, lettuce and berries.
International
Expand through Planteva-operated farms and aligned joint ventures, with selective crop or territory rights where the right partner accelerates a market.
PRIVATE PARTNER ACCESS
Review the operating case.
Explore the supporting evidence.
Invited partners can access current operating progress, commercial evidence and approved diligence materials.