Wild mushrooms
Excelsior Solutions Corporation finalizes acquisition of Healthy Harvest Mushrooms, Inc.
2023-04-27 00:00
Excelsior Solutions Corporation (BRYN) has acquired its first investment into a growing company focused on the distribution of mushrooms and new mushroom products. The management team of Healthy Harvest Mushrooms, Inc. (HHM) in San Diego, CA has over 40 years of experience in mushroom farming,
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“Frozen mushrooms are gaining ground on the fresh mushroom format even in the harvest season”
2023-04-27 00:00
"There's some uncertainty about Europe's wild mushroom campaign because of the abnormal weather conditions in autumn. Mushrooms are highly sensitive to external conditions and cycles, and they've been having uneven harvests for years. However, it is still a highly appreciated food. Its
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The fiber-based ProducePack™ Punnet tray is an alternative to traditional plastic punnets for produce applications such as mushrooms, cherry tomatoes, grapes, and berries. It has been developed in close collaboration with growers, packers, and machinery suppliers to ensure that it
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Conad Nord Ovest has acquired three stores from Bennet
2023-04-12 00:00
UK: M&S confirms news on prices of over 100 essential items - and shoppers will be pleased
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Red Light Holland announces AEM New Brunswick shiitake mushrooms are available at over 100 locations
2023-04-06 00:00
Red Light Holland Corp., an Ontario-based corporation engaged in the production, growth, and sale of functional mushrooms and mushroom home grow kits in North America and Europe, and a premium brand of psilocybin truffles to the legal, recreational market within the Netherlands, in compliance
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Europe's largest Eryngii farm now live
2023-04-05 00:00
The demand for mushrooms keeps climbing thanks to their health benefits, says Mitofresh CEO Valon Bahtiri. To cope with the high demand, this Dutch wholesale and import/export company started growing its own mushrooms. The operational expansion led to space running out at Mitrofresh's office,
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“Hectic shortages” of South African mushrooms
2023-04-03 00:00
The rumour that Denny Mushrooms, South Africa’s largest mushroom producer, is closing its doors, is not true. The mushroom grower, South Africa’s largest with farms in various provinces, is still supplying retail but it has reportedly decided not to rebuild its facility in KwaZulu-Natal
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“Demand for Shiitake mushrooms dipped by the end of February”
2023-03-23 00:00
Against expectations, demand for shiitake mushrooms from Ukraine seems to have dropped a bit as February came to an end, says Nature Green’s consultant and advisor Peter Sutherland: “In a surprising manner, the demand for shiitake mushrooms started dropping around the end of February. Before
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This week in Fruchthandel Magazine: Mushrooms, soft fruit from Spain, BLE working conference
2023-03-23 00:00
In recent weeks, there have been major problems with the production of brown mushrooms throughout Europe. According to the Bund Deutscher Champignon- und Kulturpilzanbauer e.V. (BDC), the fruiting bodies of some crops suddenly die shortly before harvest.
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Aldi embroiled in Twitter outrage due to strange labelling
2023-03-22 00:00
Supermarket Aldi has been facing stern criticism for selling mushrooms in packs labelled “British”, while the small print listed the source as Poland. As well as the word “British”, the packs of closed cup mushrooms on sale in the north of England also carried the union flag and the Red
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Chinese shiitake grower opens production in Poland and Spain
2023-03-21 00:00
Bi ShuTong is the European Business Developer at QiHe Biotechnology. The company is an expert in the production of substate logs for shiitake, king oyster and oyster, and other exotic mushrooms.
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According to the Thuringian State Office for Statistics, Thuringian farms with a minimum area of 1,000 square metres each cultivated a production area for edible mushrooms of around 41,000 square metres last year.
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BDC: Deficiency in brown mushrooms
2023-03-20 00:00
In recent weeks, there have been major problems with the production of brown mushrooms all over Europe. According to the Bundes Deutscher Champignon- und Kulturpilzanbauer e. V. (BDC), the fruiting bodies of some crops suddenly die shortly before harvest.
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"Mushroom market stable after price hike; chestnut mushrooms pricey due to cultivation issues"
2023-03-17 00:00
"After a considerable price hike, mushroom prices have stabilized. That increase was also most welcome, given all the high costs. Something has to give at some point. Fortunately, the market's better balanced now," says Rick Verhoeckx of the Dutch mushroom and top fruit wholesaler of the same
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Using mushrooms to convert cigarette butts into useful products
2023-03-16 00:00
Cigarette litter is a real problem, so Australian charity No More Butts and Melbourne-based mycologists Fungi Solutions have teamed up to start CigCycle. CigCycle is a research project which will determine whether Australian fungi can be used to create a viable recycling stream from cigarette butts.
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Mushroom harvest down six percent in 2022
2023-03-15 00:00
In 2022, 76,100 tons of mushrooms were harvested in Germany. As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), this was 6% less than in the year before. Nevertheless, after 2021 and 2020, this was the third largest harvest volume since the mushroom harvest was recorded in 2012. Compared
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"We produce 70 tons of mushrooms per day"
2023-03-14 00:00
Clusters of snow-white velvet shank mushrooms, or Flammulina velutipes, are moving on the packing line. After being sorted and packed, they are put into boxes and sent to all parts of the country by tight cold chain logistics.
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Mushrooms sold in NSW and Queensland recalled over bacteria fears
2023-03-13 00:00
Mushrooms sold at Asian grocery stores across Queensland and northern New South Wales are being recalled due to bacteria fears. The K-mama Enoki Mushrooms (300g) have been recalled by Food Standards Australia New Zealand due to a microbial contamination of Listeria monocytogenes.
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In recent weeks, partial to total failures of brown mushroom crops have occurred throughout Europe. The producer organization Pilzland Vertriebs Ltd is less affected by this, but managing director Christian Nacke knows of some farms in Europe that are struggling with this. "Overall, the
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From March 7, Paris Direkt Ltd will start supplying Edeka Food Service throughout Germany. "Through this partnership, customers can now access over 40 mushroom products, from dried mushrooms to a wide variety of truffle products. The premium products are marketed primarily under the proven Black
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