CONTENTS 30 MYCELIA ACADEMY’S MISSION
Roel Dreve Publisher Global Roel Media
Barbie + Oppie 36 FOUR SYSTEMS 8
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The 75th 48 SHIITAKE HARVEST BDC Jahrestagung at Heilbronn
ESSMI/HLP gathering at Zaltbommel The mission of Mycelia Academy
36 Which system is right for me? Four ways to go 48
Challenges in exotic mushroom cultivation 2
EN: 6, 18 Cultivation tips AdVisie 22 News 26 FOCUS 40 Cultivation tip John Peeters 45 Cultivation tip Mushroom Signals 50 Service
Frontpage photo: Growing room at Pilzland Schwaigern with tilting shelves by GTL Europe. The farm - built according to the principle of the Limbraco ‘pull-over’ system, was visited during the BDC Jahrestagung on September 30th. See page 8 and 36.
Small photo: Consultant Martin van de Vorle, Alex Lussi (Gotthard-Pilze AG) and John Verbruggen (Verbruggen Paddestoelen, Verbruggen Substraat and VEME Specials), left to right, at the meeting in Zaltbommel. See page 14. Photo: FreshPlaza
I presume that, like practically everyone else this summer, you sat through the flicks Oppenheimer and Barbie in a cinema near you. In case you did not: Oppenheimer was the director of the Manhattan Project during WWII who oversaw the creation of the A-bomb. Barbie is a fashion doll who has an existential crisis in the eponymous movie. All ends well. The Oppenheimer film should have ended with the explosion in the desert when all efforts to create a weapon able to wipe out everyone had succeeded. And those efforts were considerable. All the elite international engineers not employed by ‘the competitors’ (the Nazis), and some 130.000 other people across 30 sites worked like crazy to get it done. This incredibly fast technological breakthrough of the first kind, in many ways the holy grail to end the war, could only, ofcourse, have happened in the pressure cooker environment that was WWII. There are many examples of similar stories, like installing English Rolls-Royce engines in American P-51 fighter planes. In the European mushroom industry, and on the workfloor of the industry suppliers specifically, a huge amount of engineering genius, effort, and money are poured into creating automated systems to increase productivity and efficiency in Agaricus cultivation. The pressure cooker here is the market (pricing) situation for many growers, ‘killing’ competition, and a critical lack of available workers to harvest the mushrooms. The goal is basically to wipe out human labour as a factor, or, in the words of BDC chairman Deckers, ‘how to get the mushrooms into the tray with as few hands as possible’. At the BDC Jahrestagung in September, the organisers gave four suppliers, all of whom have automated harvesting systems already up and running in practise, the opportunity to explain why their system is the right breakthrough for growers who can invest. None of these systems however, also featured in this issue of MB, represents the holy grail for everyone, not one is ‘the bomb’ that will create Barbie’s ‘Dreamhouse’, but the scenarios are promising. ‘Anything is possible!’ the 11 inch icon would probably say.
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