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Global business development, new nourishing and purchasing trends influencing the fruit and vegetable market as well as innovations aiming at more ecological production, increasing water use efficiency and reducing the human labour were this year’

Historic Fairmont Le Château Frontenac in Quebec, Canada, was the venue of the 24th edition of the North American Mushroom Conference.

The 9th edition of the Chinese Mushrooms Days was organised from 14 to 17 November 2015 in the Wanda Realm hotel in Zhangzhou, Fujian. Bigger and with a more international signature than ever before.

In the margin of the Third International Medicinal Mushroom Conference in Washington, Magda Verfaillie of Mycelia, Belgium, was given the opportunity to visit Paul Stamets’ company annex new house in a small group.

On the 5th of November the Hessische Landesfachgruppe Pilzanbau (HLP) in Germany has organised a so called Pilztag (Mushroom Day) in Helvesiek, Lower Saxony, Germany. The companies that were visited were Biomytec GmbH, where substrate is manufactu

On November 15th, Walkro Belgium celebrated a grand opening of their new Phase I composting facility. In the daytime neighbours could take a look, and they might have been interested in the new odour reducing facilities.

Amycel France held an Open Day for relations from the Dutch mushroom industry in Vendôme on 19 June, just before production would start in the new extension of the French spawn plant.

On 16 May 2014, the modern Sikes mechanical harvesting mushroom farm in Ysselsteyn, the Netherlands, hosted the fifth edition of the Dutch National Mushroom Day. Several hundred Dutch and a few Belgian visitors registered to attend.

The 7th edition of the Chinese Mushroom Days took place from 19 to 22 November in the Wanda Realm Hotel in Zhangzhou. A striking amount of attention was devoted to the emergent Agaricus growing sector in China.

On September 26 and 27 Pieczarkalia 2013 was organised in Siedlce. Like last year, the event took place in an open ice rink in the center of town.

Last of the photo series on the Dutch Mushroom Days.

The Brabanthallen in ‘s-Hertogenbosch were the venue again for the 33rd edition of the Mushroom Days. Theme of this year’s trade show: ‘Mushrooms, a healthy business’. Herewith a couple of photos from the opening day.

The fourth National Mushroom Day in the Netherlands took place at ’t Voske mushroom farm in Uden on 22 November. A report of this event can be found in Mushroom Business nr 56, Paddestoelen 6 and  Wydanie Polskie 24 (December 2012).

Op 9 november 2012 werd Het Paddenstoelenhuis in Berghem officieel geopend. Hier kunnen bezoekers terecht voor een kennismaking met de kwekerij van René en Marja van de Vorle, een proeverij, kookarrangementen of een gezellige familiedag.