Pieter Co-Speaker at ISMS in Amsterdam-Wageningen 1965

 

Husband Pieter at the ISMS Congress in Amsterdam - Wageningen/The Netherlands

I.S.M.S. for: The International Society for Mushroom Science.

Authors: P.J. Bels, G.J.A. Van Soest and P.J.C. Vedder

The Congress was in 1965 but the procedures got published in 1967

Pieter at the Symposium in Wageningen (part of the ISMS) and to his left is Jan van Asseldonk and to his right is G.J.A. Van Soest who also was the co-speaker with Pieter.

Here is husband Pieter seen with his pipe, and to his right is one of his teachers, A. Oversteyns.

In 1963 Pieter did start the Practical Training Center for Mushroom Growing and he was the teacher and principal, together with some other teachers.

The entire group of international participants of the ISMS congress in front of the Laboratory of Entomology, Phytopathology and Virology in Wageningen, where the Scientific Symposium was held on June 28 and 29.

Center, almost at the top stood husband Pieter, one of his teachers A. Oversteyns and also long time friend J. Kuhn from Switzerland, a very successful mushroom grower.

Jörg Kuhn was a speaker at the ISMS in Paris 1956, published in 1957

Jörg Kuhn also was a speaker in Copenhagen, 1959

Again at the ISMS in Amsterdam, 1965 published in 1967 Jörg Kuhn was co-speaker.

In our book: modern mushroom growing 2020 harvesting we did mention JÖRG KUHN in Some Mushroom Growers Wisdom

Again we mentioned him on page 219 in the chapter COMPOST PREPARATION under Phase II in tunnels;

Some people are just somewhat ahead and are trying out certain ideas a little too early; the rest of the industry is just nog ready for it. Already in the early 1960s, I had seen aerated composting in a kind of bunker in Northern France (ANDRÉ SARAZIN). At the same time, growers like H.F. VON MINNIGERODE in Germany and KUHN in Switzerland, were experimenting with aeration under some pressure of the compost piles. STOLLER in the United States published the outline of doing Phase II in bulk in a kind of tunnel already in 1964.

It was too early; as mentioned before, the industry wasn't ready for it at that time. It was the Italian trio, GIORDANI, DERKS and FRANCESCUTTI who, around 1971, made the tunnel work. Later on, the Dutch and French did quite a bit of fine tuning.

Stay tuned for more about Switzerland, due to this very special long time friendship!

That's also the reason, Pieter learned skiing...

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