The method for submitting recorded data is changing with effect from period 1, 2025.
Up to now you have been used to submitting your usage records manually at the end of each period. This will change from period 1, 2025. From now on, the usage data you enter will be automatically collected from you.
To ensure we don’t collect data from companies that have not yet logged all their usages for a particular period, the collection of usage data will be subject to a number of conditions:
- There must be crop protection agents logged in the period concerned.
- If no crop protection agents have been logged, the participant must have specified in advance that they had no active production in the period concerned.
If your partial record-keeping is temporarily inactive, you can indicate this in advance in the ‘Site Questionnaire’.
In all other cases, we will not automatically collect the data for the period. The next time you log in, you can specify whether the periods can be collected.
If you confirm that a period can be collected, we will collect the data you have logged up to that point. If you specify that you have not yet finished logging your data, you can update your records and log out. If we see that uses were logged during your last session, we will automatically collect this data.
You therefore do not have to actively submit a period yourself in any of these cases. You will still always have the option to edit your records, except when they are locked for an audit.
This change will save you time since you will no longer have to log in simply to submit the data. We have attached the above conditions to the automatic collection in order to prevent participants from being qualified erroneously.
Over 30 years ago, my journey at MPS began after I saw an advertisement in the newspaper. After the birth of my daughter, I was looking to return to work and joined the data entry department. At the time, all data was still entered manually from paper forms. Since then, I have seen the organisation grow and change, and I have grown along with it.Today, I work in the Service & Support department. No two days are the same: one day I help a customer with questions about record-keeping, the next I help them understand requirements from the auction or the UO. It is precisely this variety and the personal contact with customers that make my work interesting every day.
In 2008, I joined MPS through a recruitment agency as a secretary. I then held various positions within MPS and MPS-ECAS, including roles in the Service & Support team and as a planner. In 2018, I left the organisation for a while, but in 2023 I returned to MPS-ECAS as a back-office employee. The people are simply too much fun and the world of ornamental horticulture is so innovative that it kept drawing me back. Shortly afterwards, I started working at MPS as Coordinator Netherlands.
During the final year of my Environmental Sciences degree, I joined MPS for an internship. The internship worked out so well for both sides that I was able to stay afterwards. It felt like a natural next step, because I immediately felt at home here and was given the opportunity to continue developing myself.My work is very varied. I work on different projects and products, carry out research and analyses and contribute to practical solutions. I also manage various systems, support customers with complex technical questions and work with external parties. It is precisely this combination that makes my work interesting and ensures that no two weeks are the same.
I first joined MPS through a friend who worked in MPS’s student team. I continued working here while studying Commercial Economics, and at the end of my studies, in 2004, MPS asked if I wanted to join the organisation permanently. It seemed like a great opportunity, and more than twenty years later, I am still here.No two days are the same, and that is exactly what makes my work so enjoyable. A large part of my week consists of project meetings and translating needs from within the organisation into practical solutions. Thursday afternoon is a regular fixture, which I set aside with a colleague to make MPS 1% better every week. For example, we experiment with AI, build prototypes, improve processes or develop new ideas. The goal is always to work smarter and create more value for colleagues, customers and the organisation.