Farm visit Denny's Mushrooms South Africa
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Photo impression of the farm visit to Denny's Mushrooms during the 2008 ISMS conference in Cape Town, South Africa, May 24.
.jpg "Roddy Cairns, manager of Denny Mushrooms, welcomes the international guests to the Phesantekraal location.")
See more picturesPhoto impression of the farm visit to Denny's Mushrooms during the 2008 ISMS conference in Cape Town, South Africa, May 24.
See more picturesIn June, the HLP organised a fascinating studytrip to Japan. This is a photo series of the second part of the trip, from Niigata on Honshu, to Sapporo on Hokaido.
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.jpg "Walking towards the compost yard.")
See more pictures.jpg "The location covers the entire chain from phase I compost to packaging fresh mushrooms and preserving mushrooms.")
See more pictures.jpg "The usual raw materials are used to make the compost. Horse manure is not available, so synthetic compost is made. As well as chicken manure, ammonium sulphate and urea are used as nitrogen sources. A long schedule of in total 27 days is used for composting, including wetting the straw.")
See more pictures.jpg "The farm manager explains.")
See more pictures.jpg "Eric Vernooij (Amycel) shooting straw.")
See more pictures.jpg "Compost hopper.")
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See more pictures.jpg "Thed Vestjens, from Dutch compost company Walkro in discussion with other visitors.")
See more pictures.jpg "Roddy Cairns talking to a group with Martmari Van Greuning, Douglas Schirripa, Alexander Khrenov and others.")
See more pictures.jpg "After phase 1 the compost is filled in a filling cassette in the phase II tunnels. After six days the compost is filled as spawnable compost in the growing rooms.")
See more pictures.jpg "Entering a tunnel.")
See more pictures.jpg "Normally speaking 2520 m2 is filled per week, but if the market demand is higher this figure can rise to 3150 m2.")
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See more pictures.jpg "Growing sheds. Production on this location is about 70 tons of mushrooms per week.")
See more pictures.jpg "Sixteen days after inoculation the rooms are, at the moment, cased with Topterra casing soil.")
See more pictures.jpg "Water cooling.")
See more pictures.jpg "The variety grown is Sylvan A15 for white mushrooms and 81B for chestnut mushrooms. Immediately during inoculation a supplement is also added.")
See more pictures.jpg "Check out the growing rooms in next pictures.")
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See more pictures.jpg "Dutch shelving system.")
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See more pictures.jpg "Visitors in a growing room.")
See more pictures.jpg "All the mushrooms are harvested by some eighty pickers in three flushes.")
See more pictures.jpg "Denny produce.")
See more pictures.jpg "Harvesting chestnuts.")
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See more pictures.jpg "Packing line.")
See more pictures.jpg "Packers at Denny Phesantekraal.")
See more pictures.jpg "Visitors admire the product range (Roland van Doremaele at the right).")
See more pictures.jpg "Some of the Denny products.")
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