According to mushroom quotation provided by Anhui Fuyang Logistic Center of Agricultural Products, on September 7, Enoki mushroom, King oyster mushroom, White beech mushroom, Brown Shimeji mushroom and Seafood mushroom are 5 varieties that show price rise.

1.Price of Enoki mushroom has risen from 5.5 to 6.25 CNY per kg, indicating 13% of increase range.

2.Price of King oyster mushroom has risen from 5 to 7 CNY per kg, indicating 40% of increase range.

3.Price of White beech mushroom has risen from 10 to 11.6 CNY per kg, indicating 16% of increase range.

4.Price of Brown Shimeji mushroom has risen from 10 to 11.6 CNY per kg, indicating 16% of increase range.

5.Price of Seafood mushroom has risen from 8.5 to 9.5 CNY per kg, indicating 11% of increase range.

On the contrary, on September 7, Shiitake mushroom is the sole variety that shows price fall, from 18 CNY to 16 CNY, indicating 11% of decline range.

“Price of Black fungus and Auricularia polytricha is respectively at 7 CNY and 4 CNY per kg in our market. Recently, price of industrialized mushroom variety is on the rise by reason of huge demand while price of Shiitake mushroom goes down due to big source of supply,” introduces manager of Anhui Fuyang Logistic Center of Agricultural Products warmly.

On September 4, farmers living in Jiaojiajing Village, Shizong County of Yunnan Province are engaged with picking, sorting and packaging work of Agaricus blazei.

Known as Brazil mushroom, Agaricus blazei belongs to a kind of edible and medicinal mushroom which holds low production costs and promotes the circular operation mode of making waste profitable. Over the years, Jiaojiajing Village strengthens the development of Agaricus blazei industry, which helps exploit a prosperous path for farmers.

“By 2020, the expected gross output on Agaricus blazei could reach 120 tons, annual output value could hit 960,000 CNY while the anticipated net profit is going to attain 380,000 CNY in our village. Agaricus blazei industry is undoubtedly fattening the wallet of poor rural households,” said head of Jiaojiajing Village excitedly.

Designer Nina Bruun shapes biotech firm Grown's mushroom-based material for the safe carriage of Astep lighting.

One of the key aims of Wallpaper* Re-Made is to re-think the way we consume, and packaging is a crucial link in this story. Last year, a chat with Alessandro Sarfatti led to a discussion about what he perceived to be an important problem. Coming from a family of lighting experts (he is the grandson of design legend Gino Sarfatti, of Arteluce, see W* 218 and son of Luceplan founder Riccardo Sarfatti), and founder of a lighting brand himself, he is well aware of the amount of plastic needed to transport lighting pieces.

Sarfatti, who used to be CEO of Luceplan, founded Astep in 2014, intent on creating lighting products with contemporary designs and innovative technologies to improve our domestic experience and quality of life.

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How ideas foundry Ecovative transforms mushrooms into everyday materials (including bacon).

There are few things that Eben Bayer hasn’t tried to make out of mushrooms. Over the past decade, the CEO of incubator Ecovative, which develops commercial applications for mushroom materials, has made packaging, textiles, insulation, and furniture out of fungus. This fall, through spinout Atlast Food, Bayer is launching an even more ambitious product: mushroom bacon—the first, he hopes, of a whole new category of mushroom meat alternatives.

Bayer sees mushrooms as an untapped resource for a number of industries. Researchers can easily extract cells of a specimen and grow them in bulk quickly, affordably, and in specific shapes. Ecovative’s early work focused on using mushroom cells in composite materials, growing mycelium with wood chips or hemp stock to create replacements for Styrofoam and building insulation. This material has been produced for Dell, Steelcase, and others to be used in packaging. The company has also developed a vegan mushroom leather licensed by Bolt Threads and used in a partnership with Stella McCartney.

Atlast is founded on the idea that mushrooms, particularly varietals such as chicken of the woods and oyster mushrooms, have a similar cellular structure to meat and can be cultivated to mimic bacon, steaks, chicken breasts, and other whole cuts (as opposed to Impossible Foods’ and Beyond Meat’s ground meat options). “Mycelium forms these beautiful, micron-level structures, with extreme precision, in 3D,” Bayer says. “So I think about, Where do you need really complex structures?” Atlast is planning to launch its own mushroom bacon brand this fall, before supplying other companies with the ingredient.

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Mycogone or wet bubble is making its appearance again on many farms. Growers are looking for all different chemical solutions and are gearing up hygiene measures. Most of the times too late. Because chemicals also do a lot of damage to the crop and the schedule often is simply too short to give the right effect.
And as for gearing up hygienic measures, one real big grower once said to me:
If I have no disease I am really worried because nobody is paying attention anymore to hygiene. If on the other hand I dó have a disease everyone is doing what the can.
For Mycogone it is important to look at the origin and take that away. It is a fungus growing in soil, sand or rotting materials. That is why many growers point at the casing soil. Not really correct because it does not grow in deep dug peat because the ph is too low. But casing soil polluted with sand will be infected so it is better to look at transport, the act of casing the room and the circumstances around that.
The spores of Mycogone are not airborne by themselves. The need a vector of taxi. In most of the cases this is dust, animals, people or insects. Especially dust is a factor that is hard to control.
The moving of soil in the vicinity of the room that you are filling is a guarantee for infection. So is the harvesting of agricultural crops near the farm if the wind is blowing the dust to your farm.
So keeping the room that you are filling and the casing soil out of the wind to avoid dust is already a good thing. So is cleaning of the trucks before they enter the filling area. And flushing with plenty of water may be more effective than using a disinfectant.
At the same time keep the whole area wet so dust cannot fly around.
For growers who use casing soil in plastic bags, do not bring them into the room or wash them before use. Plastic is electro static and attracts dust.
It is a myth by the way that Mycogone comes in with the compost. It cannot grow in phase 3 compost.
The following point is people. If the filling team walks through grass or sand during filling, again that is a major failure. So is not wearing clean clothes at the moment of filing. Also do not let the filing team have their coffee break in the same canteen used by the pickers. When they return to the job they may be covered in spores.
A thing harder to control is insects. If you have an infection of sciarids or phorids on the farm an outbreak of bubble is likely to happen. But one of the next blogs will be about these creatures.
One general remark: keep the farm and the vicinity clean at all times. Free from rests of casing and compost but also free from paper, cardboard and other mess. This will help to fight all types of disease.

On August 13, there is a harvest scene in Dongfeng Nature Mushroom Cooperative located in Datian County, Sanming City, Fujian Province of China, farmers are busy with picking, drying and marketing work of Russula mushroom.
“Sanming City is known as the main production area of Russula in Fujian Province, and Russula mushrooms are at big sales and high price. In 2020, Russula mushrooms cultivated in our cooperative reaches the high retail price of 4000 CNY per kg,” said chairman of Dongfeng Cooperative warmly, going on that the cooperative absorbs 136 members, depending on Russula mushroom cultivation, they can generate the per capita incomes of over 19,000 CNY.
Russula is a kind of rare medicinal mushroom which gains popularity in domestic and oversea markets for its attractive appearance, tender flavor, high nutrition value and other merits. In China, Russula Vinosa are widely distributed in Sichuan Province, Shanxi Province, Fujian Province, Yunnan Province and other major regions.

On August 4, in mushroom base located in Buyunshan Village, Zhuanghe City, Liaoning Province of China, Wood ear mushrooms are showing good growth trend, growers are busy with picking, sorting and drying work.

“Now, i cultivate Wood ear mushroom in 5-6 mu of area, each nutrient bag costs 2.5 CNY or so, and gains at least 1 CNY of net profits, plus with the government’s subsidy, we can harvest handsome benefits,” introduces Mr. Liu Chengfeng excitedly, adding that now, 1 million bags of Wood ear mushrooms cultivated in Buyunshan Village are in fruiting phase, and the time of picking is estimated to finish by October.