GERMANY
Schwaigern growing room with tilting shelves by GTL.
At Pilzland Schwaigern,
20 harvesters pick 50 tons
of mushrooms per week.
After the traditional festive evening in the Parkhotel brewery, where the BDC also paid for the drinks in celebration of the 75th
meeting
jubilee, the group headed to the industrial area of Schwaigern on Saturday morning. In collaboration with GTL Europe and Limbraco, a modern farm has been built here that currently produces approximately 50 tons of Agaricus a week, both white and brown. The company is built according to the principle of the Limbraco ‘pull-ver’ system, with the preparation cells on one side that are 5 rows wide and have a total cultivation area of 1150 square meters. There are 4 of these, so there are automatically 4 harvesting cells as well, that are equipped with tilting racks, GTL Europe style. 2 cells are filled every week with Pilzland’s own compost from Northern Germany, and both Legro and Kekkilä-BVB casing soil is applied. 1 cell per week is filled with A15, the white variety from Sylvan, and 1 with Heirloom, the brown variety from Amycel. The growing rooms are 5 beds high, and this also applies to the harvesting cells, so that after 13 days the rooms are pulled over, whereby a new net is introduced under the compost in the
The Jahrestagung visitors at Pilzland Schwaigern.
harvesting cells. This pulling over is done by means of a pulling winch and a bridge. Because the rooms are exactly opposite each other, 1 bed of a preparation room also goes into 1 bed of a harvest room. As mentioned, GTL Europe has installed tilting racks in the harvesting rooms, which tilt towards the pickers, where the pickers pick with two hands and then place the mushrooms in a belt with 2 rows of holes. 1 row has slightly larger holes and 1 row has slightly smaller holes. The picker therefore has the option of picking 2 sortings. At the end of this picking belt, the mushrooms are automatically placed in 2 different trays, which when the weight is reached automatically move to a large central belt and are removed from the sorting hall to the packaging. In this way, 20 harvest employees pick 50 tons of mushrooms per week and 4 more people are needed to place the empty packaging in the sorting hall at the collection stations. This is already a significant increase in productivity. At the filling hall there was also the opportunity for participants to fill their own belly after the tour, after which everyone returned home, satis- fied after a very successful ‘Jahrestagung’.
Truck at Pilzland Schwaigern, Baden-Württemberg. ‘Nature on tour’.
Discussion after the tour. Among others, we see Roland van Doremaele (left), Ies Hooglugt (Ecovative, center) and Frank Lemmen (Limbraco, center back).
10 MUSHROOM BUSINESS
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