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CONTENTS 30 IN TEUFELSMOOR


Roel Dreve Publisher


Global Roel Media


A better life 26 SICOG BRAZIL 8 VULLINGS 50


8 More mushrooms, less water 16 Composters gather in Lukow 20 Airhandling with the Mollier diagram 26 SICOG symposium in Brazil 30 Topterra jubilee in Worpswede 40 My Farm: Koopmans (NL)


Americans love meat. Every year they consume some 125 kg each, and travelling through the USA it’s easy to see why; TV ads promoting sizzling bacon, supermarket shelves groaning under whole rib racks and the burgers are always BIG. ‘Bubba Gump Shrimp’ is about the only eatery where meat doesn’t headline the menu. Despite that, change is creeping in. Food markets dedicated to organic and renewably sourced produce have sprung up in many places, where mushrooms naturally occupy an important spot on the shelves. For an example, take a look at the photo of the Woodlands market in California on our Facebook page (thanks for the 1000+ likes!). ‘Organic’. ‘Live Better’. That mushrooms make a great partner to meat is well-known. At the recent NAMC in Puerto Rico for instance, this was illustrated by a presentation about a burger that comprised 50% mushrooms (see MB69). The mushrooms intensify the flavour and reduce the fat and calorie content of this iconic meat dish. Great news for American mush- room growers, but maybe not so good in the long run for beef producers.


Back home (meat consumption per capita in the Netherlands 71 kg), I read about refugees flooding Europe in search of a better life; reports about experiments with nutritional supplements for prisoners (better nutrition = better behaviour); a major supermarket chain switching to meat from more animal-friendly sources (‘Better Life’); and pig farmers in financial difficulties. In protest, free ham was handed out and in Belgium, viaducts were adorned with pig carcasses.


This will not help meat farmers in the long term. Meat production burdens the environment, and animal welfare, food safety and health play ever-increasing roles. The numbers of flexitarians are rising. Supermarkets are responding to a greater extent to these trends. There is a still a lot of meat sold in Europe – but for prices that are too low. Increasing legislation doesn’t help the producers, and the refugees, well, they are not coming here for free ham.


AND: 6, 15 Cultivation tips AdVisie 15 ISMS News 22 Focus 38 Cultivation tips DLV 42 Out and about 42 Service


Front page photo: Beautiful Pioppino (Agrocybe Aegerita) at the Paddenstoelenrijk farm in The Netherlands.


Photo: Martin van de Vorle


You can still wake me up for a juicy Black Angus steak (with mushrooms), but you don’t have to be telepathic to conclude that the lights are amber for meat. They are green for mushrooms; environmentally friendly, health beneficial and low in calories. Just feed those prisoners a diet of mushrooms every day!


MUSHROOM BUSINESS 3


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