On Thursday, March 28th, Teagasc hosted a mushroom growers’ workshop in the Four Seasons Hotel, Co. Monaghan.
The event was an informative and valuable session. One of the topics on the day was to inform growers of the findings of the SafeMush project undertaken by Teagasc Food Research team in Ashtown and Moorepark.
Details and findings from the project were presented by Kaye Burgess and Kieran Jordan. A training video for farm operatives and harvesters developed by the SafeMush project was launched at the event. It can be used as part of employee induction on mushroom farms.
Other topics that were presented on the day were harvesting optimisation (best practices to optimise yield at harvesting), integrated pest management, pesticide application and mental health awareness.
The workshop was a morning session with a white mushroom farm walk was organised in the afternoon within close proximity to Monaghan town.
The Agriculture & Horticulture Development Board is hosting a mushroom conference on 25 April in the Woodside Hotel, Kenilworth (near Birmingham).
It is a one day conference aimed at bringing the mushroom industry together during a time of major change, uncertainty and opportunity. Guest speakers include Irish representatives Helen Grogan (Teagasc Mushroom Researcher) and Brendan Burns (Sylvan).
The conference agenda is now available and bookings can be made online on the ADHB website https://horticulture.ahdb.org.uk/event/mushroomconference-2019 ✽
