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Coming Full Circle

Straw is produced with the cultivation of grain. In horse breeding, this straw is used to keep the stables clean and to collect the manure from the horses. The horse manure is collected by the CNC cooperative and mushroom compost is then grown with mushroom mycelium. The fully-grown compost is delivered by CNC to mushroom growers, we then grow the mushrooms in it. We can grow 400kg mushrooms from 1000kg of fully-grown compost (95% horse manure). After cultivation, the cells are emptied and the mushroom, what remains after cultivation, is returned to the arable farmer and fruit growers and put into the soil as fertilizer and as a soil structure improver. The arable farmers cultivate grain…… The mushroom is a fungus. Fungi are scavengers in nature, they play an important and ecological role as they help to break down plant material. And we have been making super food from these waste and residual products through the cultivation of mushrooms for more than 50 years now.

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Sustainable

The Netherlands is a world leader in the field of nutrition. We are now in a time when the growth of the world’s population is only increasing the importance of this sector. 9 billion people will live on earth by the year 2050 and they will all need to be fed. The Dutch agri-food sector can make a major contribution to this. The Netherlands is at the forefront of knowledge and technology, such as greenhouse horticulture and our dairy sector, but also mushroom farming. There is a lot of interest from all over the world and people want to learn our knowledge and technology in order to make faster progress in their own countries. Other countries are asking for the Dutch model of food production. Producing highly productive and efficient food which involves the least use of land and resources with the lowest emissions possible. Producing food in this way is therefore the most sustainable in terms of food and the environment. People nature and the environment are going ot need the Dutch model.

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Cold Warm Storage

We started in 1997 with a cold warm storage system. Since then we have made this system more extensive and smarter as our company has grown. We currently have 3 cold and 3 hot sources. In the summer we use the groundwater to cool our cultivation process, by cooling the air in the cultivation cells, the water is then pumped back into the hot source. In the winter we use the heated water from the hot spring this time to heat the cells. The water is then cooled again and pumped back into the cold source. The system is a closed system and fully balanced so the water in the ground is heated as much as it is cooled down afterwards. The system now works in combination with 3 heat pumps and a cooling tower. The heat pumps run continuously, always using both the hot and the cold side of the machine. For mushroom cultivation, you need heating and cooling all year round, this helps with the different phases of cultivation. Due to this smart system, our company is in part very energy efficient.

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Nature

During the growth of our company it has been unavoidable to avoid petrification in the process of cultivating mushrooms. To maintain a balance, we have created a nature reserve while expanding our business. As a direct result of this nature reserve, the ecological structure at the Biesthoekseloop has also been realized. In consultation with the Brabant Landscape Foundation, Aa and Maas Water Board, the municipality of Boekel & Uden and the province of Noord Brabant we helped in the design and construction of the area. There is now around 5 hectares in size. It is a beautiful rugged landscape without a fence, with woods, wooded banks, ponds, ditches and rugged terrain.

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Working Together

In everything we do, Van Asseldonk Mushrooms is but a small part of a whole bigger picture. We enjoy collaborating in the cooperative. As a member of the cooperative CNC, we are provided with the basis for our cultivation, namely the fully-grown compost. As a member of a cooperative you undertake together and you jointly own the cooperative and the companies that belong to it. You share knowledge and risks with them. With all the companies with which we do business, we always try to work smarter, better, closer, more efficiently, to battle rising costs, to raise product quality and to work for a safer and more environmentally friendly process. Together with our partner companies, we have often realized various innovations in co-production; for example, sorting machines, cutting machines, screens for air movement, bat machines, better cloth cleaners, better scissor lifts, et cetera. An important part of our cooperation also happens because we are part of and make use of the entire agri-food network in the Netherlands. We use our general knowledge, the newest education, technologies and residual products from other farmers, etc. Without this, we would have not have been so successful. In conjunction with our customers we determine their needs and identify what they find important and how we can best meet their demands. We are located in the municipality of Boekel and the province of Noord Brabant and in the area of ​​the Aa and Maas water board. We always consult with these government institutions in an open and future-oriented manner. This helps us determine future plans that are then widely supported and more than meet everyone’s objectives. Our hard-working and committed employees live in Boekel or in the immediate vicinity. With this employment, Van Asseldonk Champignons makes a healthy, modest contribution to the local economy and community. In sponsoring the youth of soccer club Boekel Sport and sponsoring the most important cultural event in our village of Boecult, we also more than contribute socially to our healthy local community.

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