EuroMycel are experts in industrial microbiology applied to selecting and propagating mushroom mycelium cultures.
The French biotechnology laboratory, EuroMycel, is part of Bonduelle Group and benefits from its international reputation.

EuroMycel’s laboratory is also part of an 100% integrated industry with expertise throughout the mushroom production process, from start to finish. EuroMycel laboratory’s main focus is the selection and propagation of Agaricus mushroom strains and the creation of unique products.

In a rapidly changing mushroom world, EuroMycel are strong players and are holding their own, all thanks to their know-how. From the way they have managed to differentiate their breeding strategy, to the quality of their varieties through to their organisational flexibility.

The company has several different strains, but two of them are first class showpieces.
• First, the strain E21, developed for mechanised harvesting. It is the undisputed leader in sales, in France, and has rapidly gained popularity in The Netherlands and Belgium over the last 3 years.
• Second, and most promising, the strain E58 Premium, developed for the fresh market. It is the sales leader in Poland, and it has been very quickly adopted and mastered by Russian mushroom producers. Devoted to and customised for the fresh food market, its qualities include its ability to move towards larger, slower-growing mushrooms, and its keen water holding capacity. It is an accomplished and leading strain, ahead of the game.

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Now, in Wangyan Mushroom Base located in Sanfeng Town, Pengxi County, Sichuan Province of China, Reishi mushrooms are in desirable growth trend, farmers are busy with picking, airing and packing work with smiles hanging in the faces.

“This year, i input 400,000 CNY for the development of Reishi mushroom industry, to estimate by the present situation, 8 tons of dried Reishi mushrooms could be processed, the expected incomes could total 600,000 CNY, after getting rid of costs, 200,000 CNY of net profits could be netted,” introduces Ms. Wang Yan, person in charge of the base warmly, going on that next step, she plans to launch into deep processing industry and bring about a series of products such as Reishi Mushroom Powder and Reishi Mushroom Slices for consumers.

On July 24, in industrialized production workshop managed by Qingdao Fengke Biotechnology Co., LTD, workers are orderly engaged with picking work of White beech mushroom, Brown Shimeji mushroom and other varieties to meet the demand of oversea markets.

“We produce mushrooms relying on vertical and industrialized technology. Now, we daily output over 40 tons of mushrooms, products are sold well to Europe and America, Southeast Asia, Middle East and other countries and regions,” introduces person in charge of Fengke Company with enthusiasm.

On July 22, trial cultivation of Agrocybe cylindracea implemented under the forest got succeeded in Guangchang County, Fuzhou City, Jiangxi Province of China.

“We experimentally cultivated over 50,000 bags of Agrocybe cylindracea, now, it is the harvest season, the expected total output on dried Agrocybe cylindracea could reach at least 1000 kg while the projected output value hits over 500,000 CNY. And, Agrocybe cylindracea cultivated under the forest are green, ecological, high-quality, and gain popularity by our local consumers,” introduces person in charge of the project warmly.

On July 17, Morel mushrooms artificially cultivated in Maosheng Agricultural Products Cooperative are evolving into picking time, growers are busy with mushroom picking and sorting.

“Morel mushrooms enjoy fresh and pollution-free air and drink sweet mountain spring water in our cooperative,” said Mr. Zhang Dianyong, person in charge of the cooperative passionately, adding that fresh Morel mushrooms cultivated in the cooperative could be sold at 300 CNY per kg, mu profit is considerable. And, the cooperative also drives 30 local poor households to launch into Morel mushroom farming and help generate handsome revenues.

On July 14, Reishi mushrooms artificially cultivated in Mianhua Village, Tianzhu County, Guizhou Province of China are showing the desirable growth tendency, farmers are carefully engaged with routine management work.
Over the years, Tianzhu County positively plays the superiority of mountain ecology, strengthens the development of characteristic industry so as to help farmers to get stable jobs and generate earnings.

Europe is now at the time of the year summer will burst out. And every year the same growing problems occur at this time, getting worse and worse every year. Summers seem to get hotter and it is time to adapt before real growing problems are there. There are a number of things growers can do but of course a good cooling system is a must. Well calculated, fitting the circumstances of your own country. But even the best cooling system will not cover everything. If we take the summer temperature last year in Holland at 42° nobody has a cooling system which will handle these extreme temperatures in our country.
If at the same moment also the relative humidity is high it is not only cooling but also the heating that counts. And that brings me to the first mistake many growers make. In summer switch of the heating system. Its hot enough outside, I do not need heating. Wrong!!!

De-humidification only works if the cooling can work in combination with a bit of heating. So, by switching of the heating the system can make the air dryer anymore. And you need dry air to cool a hot room. The easiest way to cool a growing room is to give water to the casing soil. The best way is to give many small quantities up to 2 litres. That can be evaporated again. Spread the watering over 24 hours. The dry air coming into the room will take care of the evaporation and will help cooling the growing room. Keep the casing soil wet but the floor as dry as possible. That is why I do not close the room completely if the outside is hot but dry. It is possible to use air which is much higher than the compost temperature as long as the incoming air is dryer than the air in the room.

In the mollier diagram one can calculate how much fresh air is necessary to absorb the evaporated water in the room. And for that cooling by evaporation you only need a few litres of water extra. No extravagant quantities as some growers tend to do. An extra help will be some mobile coolers on the farm. They can be placed into the room just before the heat surge is starting. The price of such a mobile cooler is a lot lower than the costs of losing a room.But in the end, judging a room is important. If compost is active and the C/N ration is relatively high one can expect activity. It is of outmost importance that cooling starts before the surge starts. Once a compost is going up it is hard or impossible to stop it.

Imagine being able to sustainably produce a nutritious and delicious food product that is not constrained by specific environmental conditions required to support a predominately plant-based agricultural industry.

Kennesaw State University researcher Christopher Cornelison is exploring the possibilities of improving the food supply chain by leveraging innovative technology to expand the opportunities for mushroom production in Georgia.

“We must be able to develop sustainable methods for producing readily preserved and nutritious foods without regional climactic limitations,” said Cornelison, an assistant professor of microbiology in the College of Science and Mathematics and director of the BioInnovation Laboratory at KSU. “Mushrooms are an ideal crop as they only rely on three environmental factors that can be regulated to optimize growth yield—humidity, temperature and carbon dioxide concentrations.”
Although sales of these spore-bearing fruiting bodies of fungi accounted for more than $3.1 billion in U.S. economic impact according to a 2019 American Mushroom Institute report, they are still underutilized.

Cornelison said more than half of the nation’s mushroom production is associated with a single county in Pennsylvania. The substrate used in this production, primarily mulch, is transported from the Midwest to meet the demand.

That is why Cornelison is now focused on determining the feasibility of growing culinary and commodity mushrooms in Georgia via low-cost and efficient production systems housed in modified shipping containers with embedded environmental control systems.

With a new $25,000 award from the venture development program of the Georgia Research Alliance (GRA), Cornelison’s goal is to study the potential commercialization of growing these mushrooms on media or substrates of regional agricultural wastes such as peanut shells, corn chaff or spent brewing grains.

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