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  • Hoving Holland 90th anniversary

    May 20, 2020

    Hoving Holland, a well-known producer of machines for composting installations, celebrates this month its 90th anniversary.

    The company was founded in 1930 and started as a local cartwright. Shortly after the World War II, Hoving Holland started the production of transporters (loading systems) for agricultural and industrial purposes. In the mid-seventies they came in contact with a mushroom grower who required several logistic innovations. From that moment on the company became more and more involved in the mushroom business.

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    Amycel and Sylvan on corona

    May 11, 2020
    Harvest team MAC with masks, Funghitex Group, Italy.

    Since the beginning of this year, the outbreak of COVID-19, with the government measures in its wake, has been spreading a trail of destruction around the world. The mushroom sector was - and is being - seriously affected in many places. Despite the gloom, general managers of the two major spawn producers worldwide have been largely positive, as shown in an exclusive interview with Mushroom Business.

    Amycel

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    Cultivation Tip AdVisie – E NEWSLETTER 1 / May 2020

    May 09, 2020

    Filling, three points to focus on

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    Amycel settles patent infringement lawsuit

    May 09, 2020

    On the 15th of January 2020, spawn producer Amycel, Inc. filed a lawsuit against Hollander Spawn and Italspawn in The Hague District Court, the Netherlands for infringement by Hollander Spawn and Italspawn’s FB29 brown mushroom strain of Amycel’s European Patent EP 1 993 350 B2 in certain European states. The lawsuit was intended to protect Amycel’s own Heirloom strain.

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    Tilting nicely

    May 09, 2020

    As the very first in the world, Deckers in Geldern-Pont has started a commercial mushroom farm with tilting shelves.

    Currently there are eight growing rooms of 756 m2 surface area, with four rows of shelves per room. The first room was filled on 17 March. By now four rooms have been completed and filled several times. The next four are poised to go into operation.

    From mid-May, two growing rooms will be filled weekly in a four-week cycle using brown mushrooms of the Heirloom variety, and compost from CNC in The Netherlands. 

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    ISMS Congress/NAMC Going Ahead May 2021

    May 09, 2020
    Group photo at the 19th ISMS Congress in Amsterdam, 2016.

    The organising committee for 20th ISMS Congress and 26th North American Mushroom Conference in Vancouver, Canada met two weeks ago and reconfirmed the event would go ahead as planned.

     While most of the world has been under lockdown for Covid-19 virus, the organising committee has been busy planning the detail for next year’s not-to-be-missed event which is now only a year away. The draft program can be found here https://mushroomconference.org/agenda/.

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    Mushroom events postponed

    Mar 24, 2020

    In view of the spreading of the COVID-19 virus in many countries, some events are being cancelled or postponed right now.

    In The Netherlands, National Mushroom Day was on the agenda for the 23st of April. This event has now been postponed. If and when this event will take place in 2020 is not certain yet.

    In Russia, the Russian Mushroom Days have been postponed from 28-30 April to 29-30 September 2020.

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    COVID-19 in the Chinese sector

    Mar 24, 2020

    As the corona virus leaves its devastating traces around the world, the Chinese mushroom industry is trying to get on its feet again. As a special report by Huang Yadong (CFNA) explains, the first quarter of 2020 may have been the hardest period it has ever experienced.

    The year started optimistically as all the farms were busy in preparing for annual Lunar New Year sales season, but after the coronavirus hit Wuhan and spread nationwide, the government implemented a series of escalating tough measures, which also badly affected mushroom businesses across the country.

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    Registration ‘Vancouver’ is open!

    Mar 12, 2020

    For the first time ever, Mushroom Canada will be hosting both the International Society for Mushrooms Science Congress and the North American Mushroom Conference, at Parq Vancouver from May 30 – June 3, 2021.

    Expand your knowledge and improve your daily business operation by gathering the most current industry information on mushroom production technology, food safety, and consumer marketing at the joint 26th NAMC and the 20th ISMS.

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    Expansion GTL Europe

    Mar 12, 2020

    Following a year of intensive renovations, GTL Europe's expansion project in Venlo has been completed. This focuses all of the company's activities at one location.

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