“Master class Mushroom growing and composting”
The Mushroom Master class has proved itself, and is here to stay! Organised by Mushroom Office, The 5th
Master class will be held from 3 to 8 November 2014. Why do you need to join in? Today’s world of
mushrooms is a fast-paced, high technology industry , that requires a constant stream of new inputs. One of
the problems for growers is that this new input is sometimes hard to achieve, where do you look for it? By
following a professional training, by professionals, you can bring your own growing to the next level. Both
Mark den Ouden and John Peeters have spent a lifetime in between mushrooms, and both guys are working
as consultants and trainers in various parts of the world as we speak. They shared a number of years
together at C point, and have taught mushroom growing before, guaranteeing a perfect interaction between
the two of them and the participants of the training. It will be held before a maximum of 16 people, to
create a lot of interaction and discussions between the participants and/or the trainers. Harvesting
techniques and harvest management will be given by guest speaker Theo Haegens. The location for the
training is the Horst area, in the Netherlands. The everyday practice of the participants will be the foundation
for the theory within the course; companies will be visited as well, like composting plants, growing farms,
and others. Please look at www.mushroomoffice.com for the latest news and a training program as well as
registration forms and hotel information. The investment for the training is € 1195,- for 6 days (excl. VAT),
including lunches and transportation to and from the hotel and to the companies that will be visited. The
next course will be organised from 3 to 8 November 2014.
Mark Den Ouden, Mushroom Office
John Peeters, John Peeters Mushroom Consulting
PO Box 2035
5202 CA ‘s-Hertogenbosch
The Netherlands
[email protected]
T +31 (0)6 52 420 6 98
F +31 (0)85 401 0757
Chamb. of commerce 5036 3824
VAT nr. NL 1476 50094 B01
IBAN NL39 RABO 0143 7079 57
BIC Rabobank RABONL2U
www.mushroomoffice.com
concept program master class
mushroom composting and growing
Monday
3 November 2014
9:00
12:00
Opening of the course and briefing on the program.
Raw materials and different recopies
12:00
13:00
13:00
18:00
lunch
Visit compost yard (www.cnc.eu)
19:30
21:30
social evening program
Tuesday
9:00
12:00
12:00
13:00
15:00
16:00
16:30
13:00
15:00
16:00
16:30
18:00
Wednesday
7:00
12:00
13:00
15:00
12:00
13:00
15:00
18:00
Thursday
9:00
12:00
12:00
13:00
16:00
16:30
13:00
16:00
16:30
18:00
Friday
9:00
11:00
12:00
13:00
14:30
16:00
16:30
11:00
12:00
13:00
14:30
16:00
16:30
18:00
Saturday
9:00
12:00
12:00
13:00
15:00
13:00
15:00
15:30
PO Box 2035
5202 CA ‘s-Hertogenbosch
The Netherlands
[email protected]
4 November 2014
Phase I, Pre composting: biological proces
Bunker composting: caramelisation process
lunch
Visit Spawn plant Sylvan (www.sylvaninc.com) ; Discussion spawn quality
Phase 2 of composting; spawning
snack
Phase 3: spawn run in a tunnel, supplementing
5 November 2014
Visit Compost yard (www.coenegrachts-substraat.be)
lunch
Visit Compost yard
Visit Mushroom farm
6 November 2014
Hygiene Pests and diseases
Different growing schedules
Strains, supplementation
lunch
Visit to a mushroom farm (www.wankum-champignons.de)
snack
Casing: materials and function
mycelium growth
7 Novemerber 2014
Basics of Mollierdiagram and climate control
Crop management: period of casing till fructification
lunch
Visit to a casing soil enterprise (www.Topterra.com)
Crop management: fructification and control of the number of pins
snack
Crop management: flush control and quality
8 November 2014
Harvesting and, picking techniques, the influence of harvesting on quality
Managing picking labour, given by Theo Haegens, Insight
lunch
Visit mushroom farm
Closing session
T +31 (0)6 52 420 6 98
F +31 (0)85 401 0757
Chamb. of commerce 5036 3824
VAT nr. NL 1476 50094 B01
IBAN NL39 RABO 0143 7079 57
BIC Rabobank RABONL2U
www.mushroomoffice.com
Hotel information
If you participate in a course organised by Mushroom Office, it is possible to get a discount in the Eurotel Hotel in
Venray. During the course Mushroom Office will take care for the travel from and to the Eurotel Hotel and the
course location. The cost of for a room per night including breakfast is:
 single room € 63,00 (a double room singel use)
 double room € 75,00 (a double bed can be split in twin bed)
Per night € 1,15 of tourist tax (2013).
If you register for the course you will get a link to the website of Eurotel Hotel and a special login acces code. If
you want to make a reservation by phone (+31 478 585777), let the hotel know you are booking for a course of
Mushroom Office. The discount price will not be accepted when you book using a booking website.
PO Box 2035
5202 CA ‘s-Hertogenbosch
The Netherlands
[email protected]
T +31 (0)6 52 420 6 98
F +31 (0)85 401 0757
Chamb. of commerce 5036 3824
VAT nr. NL 1476 50094 B01
IBAN NL39 RABO 0143 7079 57
BIC Rabobank RABONL2U
www.mushroomoffice.com
Registration form
Master class mushroom composting and growing
Please register me for the master class of mushroom composting and growing. This will
take place from the 3 to 8 November 2014 in Horst, the Netherlands.
Personal
Family name
First name
Male/Female
Initials
E-mail address
Mobile phone
Date of Birth
Place of Birth
Company
Name of the company
Department
Responsibility
Street
Zip code
City
Country
Internet site
Phone number
Mail address
Fax number
VAT number
Date
Place
Signature
The General Terms & Conditions of Mushroom Office apply to all contracts made by and entered on with Mushroom Office. These General Terms & Conditions are send as behind this page.
PO Box 2035
5202 CA ‘s-Hertogenbosch
The Netherlands
[email protected]
T +31 (0)6 52 420 6 98
F +31 (0)85 401 0757
Chamb. of commerce 5036 3824
VAT nr. NL 1476 50094 B01
IBAN NL39 RABO 0143 7079 57
BIC Rabobank RABONL2U
www.mushroomoffice.com
General terms & conditions of Mushroom Office
Mushroom Office has its registered office in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands, and its principal place of business in Litserstaat 74, 5275BX
Den Dungen, The Netherlands (Postal address: PO Box 2035, 5202 CA ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands).
Mushroom Office gives advice and every day it renders services to companies, authorities and organizations in any possible way. This operational,
techno-economical, strategic and organizational advice, information and guidance to small and medium-sized businesses, organizations, authorities and
other companies in the mushroom industry is given, both by telephone and in writing, and also during company visits.
As Mushroom Office attaches much importance to good advice and guidance, Mushroom Office thinks it is also important to have clear “rules of the
game”. Both for Mushroom Office and for you. These rules of the game are given below in the General Terms and Conditions of Mushroom Office as
filed with the Chamber of Commerce in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
1. General
a. These terms and conditions apply to all offers and quotations and all agreements concluded
with Mushroom Office with respect to services, like for example advice, information, research
and sale of movable property by Mushroom Office.
b. Stipulations deviating from these terms and conditions are only valid if these have
explicitly been agreed upon in writing by all parties.
2. Offer/order
a. All offers and/or quotations are without engagement, unless it has been stipulated explicitly
that they are irrevocable, and - unless expressly otherwise stipulated - they are valid during
fourteen days, counted from the date of the offer and/or quotation.
b. Agreements can only be concluded by written acceptance by Mushroom Office of an order,
or by execution of the order by Mushroom Office.
c. The number of activities covered by an agreement is determined by the offer, including the
changes that are inserted later on by mutual agreement.
3. Prices
a. The prices given by Mushroom Office are exclusive of value added tax (VAT) and other
government levies.
b. The prices published by Mushroom Office in catalogues or in any other form, are not
binding Mushroom Office. After concluding the agreement, Mushroom Office is entitled to
raise the agreed prices in case of among other things interim price increases and/or surcharges
on freight, customs tariffs, prices of goods and/or raw materials, taxes, wages or social
security charges, depreciation of the Dutch currency and/or appreciation of foreign currency,
and in case of those government measures that make prices rise.
c. In case of increased net prices, the customer is entitled to cancel the agreement, provided
that he shall give notice in writing to mushroom office within fourteen days after having been
informed about the increase of net prices. In case of cancellation of the agreement, the
customer has no right to compensation.
4. Execution of the agreement
a. The agreement shall be executed within the (estimated) period that has been determined in
consultation with the customer and that is mentioned in the offer, unless this turns out not to
be reasonably feasible. If the deadline threatens to be exceeded, Mushroom Office shall
discuss this as soon as possible with the customer. However, Mushroom Office shall never be
in default de jure by just exceeding the deadline.
b. By concluding an agreement Mushroom Office only binds itself to carry out the ordered
activities, seeking to achieve a useful result for the customer.
c. With respect to the application of crop protection advice, Mushroom Office bases its advice
on the applicable statutory provisions (statutory user instructions, etc.). The user instructions
(doses, application techniques, etc.), both given orally and in writing, are based on extensive
tests. Mushroom Office advises its customers to the best of its ability and applies today’s
relevant know how, which also implies that Mushroom Office cannot vouch for the unknown
harmful consequences of the advised use of crop protectors arisen at the time that advice was
given.
d. In the event of Mushroom Office selling movable property, Mushroom Office will not
provide any guarantee other than described in the offer, without prejudice to any guarantee
given by the manufacturer that can solely be claimed against the manufacturer. Mushroom
Office will solely carry out additional work following approval of the customer, after which
the costs of additional work may be charged to the customer.
e. With respect to confidential information of the customer provided to Mushroom Office in
the framework of execution of the agreement, Mushroom Office shall observe secrecy, in that
sense that Mushroom Office shall never publish these data in a way that they can be directly
traced to the customer. A further obligation to observe secrecy shall expressly apply if this has
been explicitly agreed upon in writing.
f. Research results shall be disclosed anonymously, unless upon written request of the
customer secrecy has been agreed, the period of secrecy not exceeding one year counted from
delivery date/invoice date.
g. An obligation to observe secrecy, if any, of Mushroom Office does not apply as far as
Mushroom Office would then act contrary to its legal tasks and obligations.
5. Obligations and responsibility of the customer
a. In case of inspection of samples, the customer is responsible for the selection and
representativeness of the samples and he is also responsible for timely delivery of the samples
to Mushroom Office.
b. In case of advice by Mushroom Office with respect to the use of crop protectors or
fertilization the actual application or use and storage, are not controlled by Mushroom Office.
This implies that the responsibility for
correct execution of the given advice fully rests with the customer.
PO Box 2035
5202 CA ‘s-Hertogenbosch
The Netherlands
[email protected]
T +31 (0)6 52 420 6 98
F +31 (0)85 401 0757
c. The customer accepts that there is a real possibility of misinterpretation of the questions or
advice in case of telephone advice, and that the risk of misinterpretation of the question or
misinterpretation of the advice shall be borne by him.
6. Delivery, risk and ownership
a. Movables will be delivered from the business address of the Mushroom Office branch with
which a contract is concluded and at the moment of delivery the risk of these goods passes to
the customer.
b. In case of delivery of movables Mushroom Office remains the owner of all goods delivered
to the customer until the purchase price of all goods has been paid in full.
c. Copyright and all other intellectual or industrial property rights of given advice and
information remain exclusively vested in Mushroom Office.
7. Payment
a. Payment shall be made within fourteen days of the date of invoice, unless otherwise
explicitly agreed upon. Mushroom Office will send an itemized invoice to the customer.
b. If no fixed price has been mentioned in the order confirmation or agreement, then it has
been admitted between the parties that the amount payable will be determined by Mushroom
Office on basis of subsequent calculation according to Mushroom Office’s usual rates and
methods.
c. Mushroom Office is entitled to send invoices at regular intervals. Mushroom Office may at
all times require payments in advance, even if this is not included in the order confirmation or
agreement.
d. In case of overdue payment the statutory interest is, without notice of default being
required, payable from due date and so are all costs incurred with respect to collection.
e. In case of payment, the other party does not have recourse to compensation, deduction or
deferment.
f. In the event of the customer cancelling an appointment for a company visit and suchlike,
which had been agreed between Mushroom Office and the customer, and in the event that this
cancellation is made less than 24 hours in advance of the time of appointment, the customer
shall pay 50% of the hourly rate. The customer will receive an invoice for this.
8. Liability
a. Mushroom Office is only liable for the damages that are directly caused by a failure in the
execution of its obligations imputable to Mushroom Office. If Mushroom Office is liable for
direct damage to the customer in virtue of the contractual liability referred to in the previous
sentence and/or in virtue of any other matter, it is liable to a maximum amount of € 11,500.-or to at most the amount that the customer is obliged to pay in virtue of the agreement if this
amount is higher. This direct damage also includes the damage that the customer sustains due
to application or use of the result of the activities of Mushroom Office; however it does not
include any lost profits of the customer
as a consequence of the activities of Mushroom Office.
b. The customer indemnifies Mushroom Office and/or the persons employed for the execution
of the agreement against all claims from third parties in virtue of the damage sustained by
these third parties due to the application or use of the activities of Mushroom Office by the
customer or another person whom the customer has provided with the results of the activities.
9. Complaints
a. The customer cannot appeal against the fact that the deliverable does not comply with the
agreement if he/she has not given notice in writing to Mushroom Office within the reasonable
period after he/she has discovered or reasonably should have discovered that the deliverable is
not in accordance with the agreement.
b. Complaints with respect to invoices, externally visible defects of the deliverable and
reasonably detectable inaccuracies in case of advice or deviations from the assignment, should
be submitted with Mushroom Office in writing within four weeks of the date of invoice, in
default whereof any appeal against these shortcomings and/or inaccuracies becomes
extinguished.
10. Dissolution
Mushroom Office shall be entitled to dissolve the agreement and shall have the right to claim
damages from the customer, if the customer fails imputably, if he/she applies for a
moratorium on payments, if he/she is declared bankrupt, if the customer dies, or - in case of a
legal person - if this legal person is dissolved, or if the company of the customer is wound up.
11. Applicable law and competent court
Only Dutch law applies to the agreements concluded with Mushroom Office. All disputes will
in the first instance be settled by the competent court in ‘s-Hertogenbosch (The Netherlands),
unless Mushroom Office gives preference to the court in the place where the customer has his
registered office or domicile, or
unless imperative law prescribes otherwise.
Chamb. of commerce 5036 3824
VAT nr. NL 1476 50094 B01
IBAN NL39 RABO 0143 7079 57
BIC Rabobank RABONL2U
www.mushroomoffice.com