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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Mushrooms
  • Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 08:23:45 -0600

Good question. There is a modest sized mushroom farm not too far from our
research farm that primarily sells to medium size customers but will sell 10
lb packs to consumers as well. They're just button mushrooms. Don't know
much more about it but it suggests that consumers might have an interest.
The question is whether you can match production scale to the market around
you. Perhaps growing several types could attract more business.

Bill Shoemaker
Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
Univ of Illinois - St Charles Hort Research Center

>I would love to see some numbers to show whether it is possible for
>mushroom selling to be profitable at the market farming stage. Or is
>it like emus and compost worms, with the only ones making money being
>those supplying other start-up operations.





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