A full service for the truffle grower
Micología Forestal & Aplicada offers you its global data base and over 30 years research into a comprehensive service for truffle growers: You can send your soil and root/mycorrhiza samples to assess their truffle potential, ask for a field visit & technical advice for your plantations. Meet our truffle team on line:
Consultation by 60 minutes telcos (Zoom, Skype…)
Price: 200€
Please, send any docs to be discussed prior the telco
Meet with any of our truffle technicians:
- Marcos Morcillo
- Xavier Vilanova
First approach-Feasibility report
If you are eager to grow truffles but need a first approach to check if your idea can be worth we offer a first consultancy service for truffle projects. Its cost is 400 € and includes:
- 1h initial telco. Data request for technical report.
- Study of climate and soil data. Elaboration of a feasibility report.
- 1h telco to discuss the results and final conclusions.
In case the client does not have soil analysis, you can send the samples to our lab in Barcelona.
Cost of a full soil analysis is 93 €/sample.
Executive report
Its cost is 500 € and includes soil preparation and orchard design with detailed georeference maps. So you get the exact numbers of trees, pipes for irrigation, fabric geotextile, etc
We can include as well a field technical visit to assess the farm in situ and sampling.
Our fees abroad are 950 € / day plus travel and per diem.
These prices are for studying a particular farm. For technical feasibility studies in larger regions or which have to analyze several areas, climates and soils, please consult a complete budget.
Full management
If you are already a truffle grower, we offer a full management and anaysis service. This service can be done on-line and includes level of truffle infection in the roots, recommendation of some substrates to improve fruitings…and of course any management questions are discussed.
This service has a cost of €1400 and includes:
- 4 hours Skype
- 10 samples root/mycorrhizae analysis
- 5 Quantification of truffle mycelium by qDNA
- report of results and proposed management
You may want to add a technical visit to your farm (950€/day plus travel costs), as every year some of our technicians travel overseas to visit farms and maybe you can join in some of these technical tours.
Note this is a pack, but you can create your own depending on how many samples you want to analyze, etc.
Ask or special prices for Truffle Growers Associations