MUSHROOM WEEK A busy week
29 May to 3 June saw the Mushroom Week, an exceptional combination of the 19th ISMS conference and the 34th Dutch Mushroom days. A week bur- sting with activities. The event had been long anticipated but also approa-
ched with some trepidation. By Roel Dreve and John Peeters
Coffeebreak in between lectures. T 8 MUSHROOM BUSINESS
he welcome reception on Sunday evening sponsored by Global Roel Media was a perfect occasion for participants to catch up in the
amazing surroundings of the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ. Piet Lempens, chairman of the organising committee, launched the Mushroom Week and thanked the participants, employees and sponsors of the event.
The conference proper started on Monday morning in a spectacularly illuminated Main Hall, with a dance performance and a word of welcome from ISMS President Greg Seymour. He explained the history and aims of the Society. “ISMS does far more than simply organise a conference every four years. It stands as one huge family, which now numbers 422 members from 61 countries, with the intention of suppor- ting and promoting the global mushroom industry by communicating, risk management, and worldwide promotion of mushrooms. Mushrooms Move!” Seymour then announced the names of the ‘Honorary Memberships’,
honouring this time Anton Sonnenberg (WUR), Mark Wach, (Sylvan USA) and Martmari van Greuning from Sylvan South Africa. After the thanks, keynote speaker Günther Pauli opened the programme of lectures (see else- where in this edition). The participants then had a choice of three venues in the building in which to attend the other sessions. As well as the usual scientific disciplines, a great deal of time in the programme in Amsterdam was devoted to marketing, alternative uses of mushrooms and practical compost and cultivation related issues.
Compost
One of these was the ‘composting and sub- strates’ session. The first speaker was Anna Ribeiro from C4C. She explained that the composting is a highly complex process that we still know too little about. “If we want to produce consistent compost, we have to work more along to fixed lines. We have tried to process all the data available on compost to create a model that can be used to simulate the processes. Hopefully
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