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8 BIOMUSH PROJECT
The BioMush Project: practical IPM Growing and composting in Victoria Interview with Greg Seymour Energy solutions for every farm
Prepublication: Harvest management
The very first edition of our journal Paddestoelen, in May 2001, featured a guest column contributed by Doeke Faber under the heading ‘Mushroom growers of the Netherlands unite’. It urged readers to join the Dutch Mushroom Growers’ Association (VPN) that had been founded in the same month. When the Cooperative Mushroom Growers’ Association (CNC) relinquished its representative duties for the mushroom sector, this heavyweight from the hor- ticultural sector was considered to be the right man to advise on a new structure. And although it wasn’t in line with intentions, he stayed on as chairman following the inaugural meeting. And despite his having said that the VPN should become a ‘modest club with modest aims’ the association booked a promising start. At the first meeting that followed a few months later, some 85% of growers and all of the tunnel companies had joined, the Minister of Agriculture gave a speech at the event and office premises were opened.
However, the unique board, comprised half of growers and half of composters, would meet just four years later for the final time. Representing the interests of the sector then passed to the Southern Agriculture and Horticulture Organisa- tion (ZLTO). This move was motivated by various factors, but a lack of broad (financial) support, particularly from the large mushroom growers and a number of composting companies, led to the demise of the VPN. The likeable, never-gi- ve-up Faber, who recently laid down his gavel for the final time after a life of active service (see page 4), thought it was a real pity. An opportunity for serious ambitions in the field of, for example, promotional campaigns and research to come to fruition was lost.
AND: 4, 36 News 6, 19 Cultivation tips AdVisie 19 ISMS News 22 Focus 38 Cultivation tips Delphy 42 Out and about 42 Service
Front page: ISMS President Greg Seymour poses in front of Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ (venue of the upcoming ISMS Congress) during an ExCom meeting of ISMS in Amsterdam in 2015.
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In Australia, by contrast, the ranks closed and have stayed that way more or less in the past decades, and in doing so huge ambitions to promote mushrooms have been realised. Managed by Greg Seymour (see page 20) the Australian Mushroom Growers’ Association scored one success after another. A small, ‘mature’ sector with large, inde- pendent companies may well have less need for a joint front and strong leadership, and feel more for occasional coalitions. But that a lack of (financial) support has given rise to letting go of such a supervisor in Australia really raises some questions.
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