The mushroom industry in the United States is worth around $1.19 billion and consists of only 346 growers. Donald Simoni owns and runs "Mushroom Adventures" where he grows the fungi on his farm in Marysville. He states that mushrooms are not grown using seeds and require special compost to grow.…

Watsonville, Calif.-based Monterey Mushrooms has added Dana Giacone as a sales manager and has promoted Jill Moran to national customer service manager. Giacone will be the sales manager of Southern California, Arizona and Hawaii, according to a news release. “We are thrilled to have a professional with Dana’s background join…

The board of the Mushroomdays Foundation announces that the next edition of the largest global mushroom tradeshow “The Mushroomdays” in The Netherlands, will be held on 22-23-24 May 2019. The location for it remains “The Brabanthallen” in ‘s-Hertogenbosch. The board concluded from the questionnaires sent out to the participants and…