Grow Room Sanitation - Start clean, crack down on disease
With declining access to traditional disease control chemicals and mounting consumer resistance to chemical residues in agriproducts, effective on-farm disease management will become increasingly reliant on preventative hygiene. effective grow room sanitation is a prescribed multi- step process, but the efficacy of the protocol can be influenced by the physical characteristics of the farm and ‘events’ that may occur within the facility.
During the recently completed project Development of a pilot Mushroom farm Disease Monitoring Scheme (MU12007), extensive sampling on bubble-affected farms highlighted some features to be considered to ensure your sanitation protocol is as effective as it can be.
This article was originally produced for the Australia Mushrooms Journal
