The boxy robot — named after a retired employee at the WAM Pennings farm near the Dutch North ... tulips, checking each plant and, when necessary, killing diseased bulbs to prevent the spread ...

aka Farmer John, plants about 100,000 tulip bulbs each season, and this year has more than 65 varieties, according to a post on the business’s Facebook page. Dutch Hollow Farms is open every day ...

The Netherlands is well known worldwide for their cultivation of tulips. It currently has 60,000 acres of land dedicated to ...

In February that year, bulb wholesalers gathered in Haarlem, a day's walk west of Amsterdam, to find that nobody wished to buy. Within a few days, Dutch tulip prices had fallen tenfold.

In the 17th Century the Dutch went mad trading tulip bulbs in the hope they could make a massive profit. But was Tulip Mania - a parable of greed compared to the recent heavy investment in the ...