Wild mushrooms
European button mushrooms producers formed a group
2023-06-08 00:00
The GEPC (European mushroom producer group) promotional campaign is starting. With a budget of €5 million - 675,000 of which to be invested in Italy - the aim is to increase consumption in those European areas where there is still scope to do so due to their inhabitants and potential.
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A tour of the Epicurean Food Group’s exotic mushroom facility north of Adelaide has given 50 Hort Connections delegates a taste of the newly established farm’s potential to achieve its goal of reversing Australia’s reliance on imported Oyster, Shiitake, Enoki, Lion’s Mane and other
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“We must continue to support French production”
2023-06-05 00:00
In 2023, Kultive embarked on an ambitious project: growing French mushrooms to meet a real demand in a sector mainly represented by imported products. Despite a few necessary adaptations common to all new projects, this first campaign has gone rather smoothly so far, thanks to a fine
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“It’s time to interrupt the North American mushroom industry”
2023-06-02 00:00
Degrees of innovation in the mushroom industry vary greatly around the world. In North America for instance, selling mushrooms in a blue container is the standard and product containing dirt is completely acceptable. “Mushroom growers in this part of the world have been able to get away with
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Green Media House: Popularity of mushrooms unbroken
2023-06-01 00:00
Hardly anyone wants to do without mushrooms today. And this, according to the Green Media House, despite the fact that the energy crisis has not stopped at cultivated mushrooms and has made them more expensive, albeit moderately. According to the report, in 2021/2022, the average annual per capita consumption of
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Demand for exotic mushrooms on a downward trend since March
2023-06-01 00:00
There is a lot of uncertainty in the international exotic mushroom market, as demand has been dropping for months, says Nature Green’s project manager Peter Sutherland: “There seems to be quite a bit of disruption in the mushroom market. Demand has been on a downward trend since March and
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The arrival of the first Bulgarian chanterelles marks the start of this year's wild mushroom season. "We obtain our chanterelles mainly through partners at the Munich wholesale market, where the first batches of the season have already been offered for one to two weeks now. The price of the
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The cultivated mushroom sector is looking back on an eventful year due to inflation and cost increases since the start of the Ukraine war. "The harvest volume of organic mushrooms from our exclusive supplier Bio Pilzhof Leipzigerland has been stable and is still around 14 tons a week, but the
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"Some countries in Europe have already stopped producing mushrooms due to lack of compost"
2023-05-23 00:00
One of the consequences of the drought that affects areas in practically all of Spain is the shortage of straw, which is leading to a large increase in straw prices. This increase in prices enormously complicates maintaining mushroom production, which depends on straw for the preparation of
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Denmark: "Collaborating with chefs in Copenhagen boosts our image"
2023-05-19 00:00
When possible, Danes prefer local, sustainably produced food. Add Copenhagen's luxury restaurants to that, and you have the ideal breeding ground for a company like Funga Farm: a small-scale urban farm that grows organic, fresh, high-quality specialty mushrooms and supplies them exclusively to
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GrowGeneration partners with Bridgetown Mushrooms to begin selling mycology supplies
2023-05-17 00:00
GrowGeneration Corp. and GrowLife, Inc. have announced a multi-year partnership focused on the development and sale of mycology supplies, placing both companies among the early movers in the rapidly expanding mushroom farming industry.
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During the night of May 1 to 2, the first goods were scheduled and delivered at Fruchthaus Hulsberg's new location in Ganderkesee. The heart of the new facilities is the Freshcut production, where the latest plant technology is used to produce, among other things, sliced salads, onions and
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At Macfrut we met Massimilano Ceccarini, general manager of Sipo. "In recent years we have segmented our offer by use and in 2023 we will consolidate the launch," he said. The range, in fact, is divided into product families, mushrooms, herbs
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'Eating mushrooms might lower blood pressure levels'
2023-05-15 00:00
In a recent Phytotherapy Research study, scientists review existing literature on edible mushrooms and their bioactive constituents and their impact on hypertension. Edible mushrooms are enriched with nutritional bioactive compounds, dietary fiber, amino acids, sterols, proteins, vitamins, and
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GEPC Promo starts campaign to promote mushrooms in Ireland
2023-05-15 00:00
In order to promote European mushrooms throughout Europe, GEPC Promo (European Association of mushroom producers) has presented a new campaign co-financed by the EU with the slogan: ‘European mushrooms, hidden pearls’. This is a 5 million euro promotional campaign that is expected to create
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"New harvesting system allows us to continue offering our organic mushrooms at an attractive price in the future"
2023-05-08 00:00
Organic mushroom farm Heereco has almost the entire mushroom chain under its own control. For instance, Heereco has its own organic composting facility, the company has three nurseries in Uden in Brabant, which collectively produce around 45-50 tonnes per week, and it also has its own certified
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Packaging trays of Swiss organic mushrooms continuously replaced with 100 percent grass-paper trays
2023-05-04 00:00
As part of its value-added strategy, the Swiss Mushroom Producers Association (VSP) developed the grass-paper tray in cooperation with Coop. From now on, the packaging trays of Swiss organic brown mushrooms 225g as well as Swiss organic white mushrooms 225g, will be continuously replaced by 100
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The O.P. Consorzio Funghi di Treviso returns to Macfrut, the reference event for professionals in the fruit and vegetable sector in Italy and Europe. Protagonist of the stand is the "Zero Residues" line, which one year after its launch, which took place right on the international stage
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As part of the added value strategy, the Swiss Mushroom Producers Association (VSP) developed the grass paper tray in cooperation with Coop. From now on, the packaging trays of Swiss organic mushrooms brown 225 g and Swiss organic mushrooms white 225 g, will be available in Coop sales outlets on an ongoing basis.
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Nigeria’s Raw Materials Research and Development Council has stated that it has developed a cardiovascular drug from oyster mushrooms. According to Engr. Florence Madueguna, the Project officer at the Professor Hussaini Ibrahim Technology and Innovation Center, the drug known is known as
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