Will it be a quieter wintertime ? Mark Bruinen repeat the doubt . " No , it ’s not that restrained . Besides , we like to be as busy as possible . " This is discernible after a glance at the website of M - Force Horti Solutions v.o.f . The range of military service is across-the-board . finish advice , personnel management or crack-up military service , Mark does it all to support agriculturist .
SpecializationThe former chrysanthemum grower has been active as a inspection and repair provider in horticulture since 2011 . The specialization in pepper cultivation is shine . Mark himself calls it " dumb luck " . " When I take off for myself , it soon came my way . A agriculturist in the neighbourhood ask a cultivation medical specialist . We took on those tasks . " Mark pronounce ' we ' . That advert to Mark as a man in the field , and his married woman who takes care of administration and planning . " For example , she also take up up culture schedules . " In add-on , Mark can bank on extra specialists from his connection when things get officious .
It soon became unclouded that Mark could remain participating in pepper cultivation . " I specialized in it from the start . I find it an even more challenging crop than chrysanthemum culture . " Today , his client base consists preponderantly of chrysanthemum and pepper agriculturist . " Both crops are quite similar . With a young plant life , you take tending of a somewhat level mood and as the crop grows bigger , you bulge out steering more generatively . The biggest divergence is that chrysanthemum is a short - day plant life , while common pepper is hugely lighting - loving . But aside from that , there are quite a few similarity in terms of control , temperature , and climate . "
Back - upIn his work , Mark travel all around the Netherlands . The company ’s focus is on Agriport A7 , near Andijk where M - Force is ground , Westland , the Bleiswijk area , and a few other greenhouse areas . " In display case of an evening caper further from family , I stick overnight , " he says . This symbolize how Mark is committed to growers . Even with breakdown services , for case . " In the past , when I was a grower myself , I did n’t go on holiday . You were always afraid of breakdowns , of let thing go and I had no accompaniment . We need to be that support for raiser . "
Mark luff out that cultivator used to be capable to use the so - called ' farm care ' service , in which growers could bank on experient substitutes . " Now we just offer that service . Before we start observing , we do an introductory round on the farm . That way we know what to see out for and where problems might move up . you could then anticipate that . "
M - Force ’s home office in Andijk
Challenging peppercorn year2022 proved to be a challenging black pepper twelvemonth for raiser . Mark also saw it excogitate in the plain . " Aphids have been an issue , besides of course energy . We can not forestall aphid , but we do reach out to growers with bar tips . crucial these Clarence Shepard Day Jr. is the proper and early consumption of biological control agents . But chemical pest control may still leaven necessary . If so , you also have to have the courage to draw up an x - act of spraying schedule . We help growers with this too . "
side effect in pepper was another problem this year . Several survey were already done , Mark knows . " In our view , it has to do with grow more DOE - efficiently . raiser who begin drier with their substrate seem to have had fewer problems than growers who start just a bit wetter . I have still find top productions from growers who have remained free of problems . In a cold harvest , the watering should also be align . If you do n’t , you go the jeopardy of overwatering and break the plant ahead of time on . In the past , mistake like that were less noticeable , but back then it was easy to ignite the greenhouse to keep the works going anyway . "
Extra pair of eyesAs a former cultivator , Mark can always fall back on his hard-nosed experience . In crop protection , that also helps . " You know what pests there are , but also how thing lick in practice in the nursery . That admit , for case , how spraying equipment works . How do you adjust them optimally , for instance ? An special couple of eyes can sometimes help preclude that one mistake someone who takes maintenance of crop protection day by day still makes . As a agriculturist in a large location , it is not potential to keep an eye on everything . "
The same applies to labor , Mark honor . " Growers work with strange employees . That sometimes do communication problems . If we notice this , we also sometimes dare to bespeak out that mayhap appointing a staff member who is proficient in several languages could help , or by appointing the right people to the right position , just to name a crazy crossroad . "
Overnight control / disinfection by fogging carry out by M - Force
wintertime periodWhat sets M - Force ’s services apart is that there is time to bet just that little routine further . " We look beyond just the crop and its status . Does something seem unseasonable with the watering ? Then we do n’t waver to take a look at the installation there too . We strain to do what the grower would otherwise do himself . Growers today have so many project that they are far from being able-bodied to do everything . That ’s where we can make a difference for them . "
Even if the greenhouse stay empty for a little longer this winter , Mark expects . " That ’s just the time to take a here and now to sort out everything out . " In black pepper cultivation , the winter time period without firing is always a bit quieter . " Here I see the biggest alteration being the installing and use of more screens . " In chrysanthemum , there is a bigger variety this wintertime . " Some growers opt for ( full ) LED and keep growing , others still have SON - T hanging above the craw or run on a boiler . " Mark does n’t yet have cultivator with full light-emitting diode as his client . " particularly the growers with inadequate gas positions are now being commit heavily and sometimes have to make hard choices . Where possible , we attempt to keep contract footprint and count for resolution with these growers as well . "
For more information : Mark BruinenM - Force Horti Solutions v.o.f . Handelsweg 81619 BJ Andijk+31 ( 0 ) 6 255 233 30[email protected]www.m - forcehs.nl
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