MushroomLink Bulletin July 2024
In this edition:
NEW MAGAZINE: Winter magazine available now
WEBINARS: Catch up on the two mushroom supply chain webinars
SAVE THE DATE: Food safety month
RESOURCE: Mushroom Supply Chain Best Practice Guide
EVENT: AMGA Conference
MushroomLink Bulletin June 2024
In this edition:
Food safety month coming soon
Podcast: Dr Eoin O’Connor
Resource: Mushroom supply chain best practice guide coming soon
Webinar: Mushroom supply chain
Webinar: Hort Innovation Consumer Outlook Webinar
AMGA Conference Stronger Together, registrations now open
MushroomLink Bulletin May 2024
In this edition:
Research feature article: Lignin removal
Webinars: Upcoming supply chain webinars
Resource: Mushroom supply chain best practice guide coming soon
MushroomLink at Hort Connections
AMGA conference advert
Nuffield scholarships closing soon
MushroomLink Bulletin April 2024
In this edition:
Feature article: Mushrooms in health care settings
Publication: Supporting mushrooms as a food-based solution to vitamin D deficiency in dietary guidelines
Marketing: New strategy to inform FY2025
NEW Podcast: Dr Mark Loftus from Sylvan Bioscience
Training: Mini series - mushroom farm hygiene
Webinars: Save the date for the mushroom supply chain webinars
AMGA Conference 2024
MushroomLink Bulletin March 2024 - Magazine Autumn Issue
In this edition:
MushroomLink magazine: Autumn issue out now
Feature article: Cold mushrooms are quality mushrooms
Marketing: What’s planned in the coming months?
Podcasts: Revisit the MushroomLink podcast back catalogue
Fact sheet: Actions points to control Sciarid and Phorid flies
AMGA conference scholarship
Nuffield scholarships now open
MushroomLink Bulletin February 2024 - FY25 Marketing strategy webinar recording
In this edition:
Launch of the 2022/23 Australian Horticulture Statistics Handbook
Webinar: Catch up on last week's webinar with Monique Emmi
Feature article: It’s not easy being green. New advances in Trichoderma research
Audio article: Phorid ecology and management
Dr Agaricus: What is foaming disease?
MushroomLink 2024 publication schedule
MushroomLink Bulletin January 2024 - Marketing webinar
In this edition:
Marketing webinar: REGISTRATIONS OPEN
New developments from the mushroom SIAP
Feature article: Growing mushrooms with AI assistance
Listen: NEW: Audio article - Chemical storage
NEW resource: Taking your mushrooms' temperature
Research from around the world: New biofilm that improves postharvest quality
ISMS conference with side symposium
MushroomLink bulletin December 2023 - New Magazine!
In this edition:
New magazine: Our summer issue is here
Feature article: Best practice in mushroom supply chains
Marketing update: Webinars past and future
Podcast: Just dropped - Introducing the MUSHRoom
MushroomLink 2024 publication schedule
ISMS conference with side symposium
MushroomLink Bulletin November 2023
In this edition:
Marketing webinar: Registrations open for the first MushroomLink marketing webinar
Marketing campaign: Miguel Maestre on the radio waves
Feature article: Bringing mushrooms to centre stage in the Australian Dietary Guidelines
Watch and listen: What makes mushrooms so special? Revisit our podcast and webinar with nutritionist and scientist Dr Flavia Fayet-Moore and Dr Damien Belobrajdic
Factsheet: Mushroom nutrition and health messages
Case study: Monaghan Mushrooms
Research from around the world: Mushroom mathematics
MushroomLink Bulletin October 2023
In this edition:
Magazine: Spring issue out now
Feature article: Changing how we look at mushrooms
Doctor Agaricus: Ventilation within the compost matrix
MLMRU update
Research from around the world
Upcoming webinar – registrations open
Food safety free testing wrapping up
Marketing update
Mushroom fund annual report
MushroomLink Bulletin September 2023
In this edition:
Feature: Can mushrooms really help lower our cholesterol?
Event wrap: Mushroom production workshop
Mushroom Fund Annual Investment Plans 2023/24
Podcast: Global perspectives from Erik de Groot
Podcast: Geoff Price and the American mushroom industry - part two
Resource: MU16003 Fact sheet: Internal Stipe Necrosis
Upcoming webinar
Shape the future of the mushroom industry - EOIs
Horticulture women leadership courses, scholarships open
Project MU22010 – Mushroom International Study Tours – Inbound and Outbound
Part of the in- and outbound International Study Tours project, the inaugural Mushroom Production workshop, facilitated by Erik de Groot, was held in Adelaide and Sydney at the end of August
Figure 1: Robert Tolson at Premier Mushrooms explaining the room-filling procedure and machinery on his farm (Umberto Calvo)
US-based international consultant and mushroom expert Erik de Groot delivered the 2-day workshops to industry members eager to learn.
Elbows deep in compost and mushrooms since his childhood in the Netherlands, Erik’s knowledge and experience range from compost production to harvesting and everything in between, with clients spread across five continents.
With the aim to educate and inspire the Australian mushroom industry and promote collaborative problem solving, attendees were asked to work together in small groups. Participants were split into these groups depending on their role (compost production, growing, harvesting) to encourage conversation within their areas of expertise and generate new ideas and solutions to current issues.
The first day of the workshop focussed on compost production, phase II and III compost, tunnel and growing room filling, and the optimal conditions of the various stages (temperature, humidity, ventilation). The attendees involved in compost production were the most active throughout the first day, while growers and harvest managers were able to better understand the dynamics of the phases that precede their entry into the crop cycle.
Figure 2: Attendees were invited to "have a feel" of good quality peat with adequate moisture (Umberto Calvo)
Day 1 also included a farm visit to Costa Monarto in South Australia and Premier Mushrooms in the Hawkesbury, with the farm staff showing the facilities, machinery, and explaining the various steps of their mushroom production and management.
The second day was centred on growing and harvesting practises to optimise yield and quality, with a particular focus on harvest efficiency and planning.
At the end of the session each group had to elaborate on the actions they were planning on taking back to their farm with the newly acquired knowledge from the workshop.
The event was very well received by all attendees, both thanks to the broad scope of themes and the opportunity to expand their network vertically with people from their own farm and peers across different farms.
The opportunity to network with colleagues from different parts of one’s own workplace was viewed as an important outcome. Communication and collaboration throughout every step of the process, from compost production to growing and harvesting, can have a big impact on the overall result, and ultimately determine the farm’s and farmer’s bottom line.
At the end of the two-day workshop the participants were asked to complete an evaluation and suggestion form, which will assist AMGA as it plans the next events. Attention will be placed on the topics and issues identified by the Australian mushroom industry as the most relevant right now.
Additional resources
MushroomLink Bulletin August 2023
In this edition:
Feature: The future of mushroom packaging
Feature: A lifecycle analysis for the mushroom industry
Webinar: A scoping study to review fungi-based global innovations
Podcast: Geoff Price and the American mushroom industry - part one
Resource: Mushroom Virus X Syndrome
Event: November webinar - save the date
MushroomLink Bulletin July 2023
In this edition:
Feature: Making a vitamin D claim.
Feature & webinar: Spent mushroom substrate
Feature: Improving the food industry menu with mushrooms
Podcast: Going Dutch - New mushroom technology from the Netherlands
Resource: Troll doll fact sheet
Event: November webinar - save the date
MushroomLink Bulletin June 2023
In this edition:
Winter magazine out now
Feature: Phorid ecology and management
Food safety FAQ’s
Podcast – Revisit our podcast on risk management
Marketing: Mushroom meat tray
MushroomLink Bulletin May 2023
In this edition
Free service: Order your free Smart Mushroom testing kit now
Feature: Bacteriophages in compost – friend or foe
Feature: Sustainable pest and disease management
Podcast: Catchup with the team behind Mycionics
Webinar: Recycling SMS for fertiliser in a circular economy
MushroomLink on the road: Visit us at Hort Connections
MushroomLink Bulletin April 2023
In this edition:
Feature: Breeding a better mushroom
Webinar: MU21006 - Recycling SMS for fertiliser in a circular economy
New Project: Mushroom supply chain
What’s new at the MLMRU
Mushroom Link resources – new fact sheet Nitrogen in compost
MushroomLink Bulletin March 2023
In this edition
Autumn 2023 magazine out now
Feature: Horticulture meets robotics meets AI
Interview: Geoff Price from Giorgi Mushrooms
Podcast: CSIRO researcher Dr Damien Belobrajdic and nutritionist Dr Falvia Fayet-Moore (NRAUS) discuss the narrative around mushroom nutrition
Marketing update: 70,000 shoppers engaged with the in-store sampling program
Mushroom Link resources
Mushroom Bulletin February 2023
In this edition:
Mushroom farming in Ukraine
Developments in mushroom harvesting
Presentation – Gordon Rogers on the MLMRU and PCR Disease Testing
Podcast – Jack Lemmen in new developments in harvesting
MushroomLink resources
MushroomLink Bulletin January 2023
In this edition
Alternative casings and a sustainable mushroom industry
The Marsh Lawson Mushroom Research Centre
Webinar – Food safety certification: watch the recording
Podcast – Ralph Noble comments on the future of the industry
Smart Mushroom in the news
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