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. Grown indoors, they also require controlled humidity and temperature.

Over the last ten years the price of mushrooms stagnated but sales have grown 13 percent nationwide, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Simoni also noted that the cost of waste products used in cultivating mushrooms have risen as more companies look to recycled products. Simoni believes this could raise the price of mushrooms, but unlike other vegetables people won't notice the rise as they aren't a main course and are only bought a quarter of a pound at a time, he said.

source: abc10.com

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 our team,” Kevin Eichele, western sales director, said in the release.

“We look forward to working with her to identify new business opportunities in the very important Southern California market.”

Monterey promoted Moran from her previous position as western region customer service manager. She has been with the company since 1991. “The customer service team is the voice of Monterey Mushrooms to our customers,” Mike O’Brien, vice president of sales and marketing, said in the release.

“The customer service team, under the leadership of Jill Moran, will play a leadership role in communicating to customers, as well as operations and sales regarding new projects, best practices and new items, following them through to execution. These are key resources for the sales team.”

Dana Giacone has been hired by Monterey Mushrooms as a sales manager, and Jill Moran has been promoted to national customer service manager.

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 the visitors that the set up and the formula meet their demands fully and will therefore be continued in the same way. You can find the results of the questionnaires on www.mushroomdays.com . Mushroomdays 2016 has been a special one, as it was combined with the 19th ISMS-conference to form a massive week on mushrooms for 3.500 people involved in the global mushroom industry.

The visitors of the Mushroomdays have a preference for a next edition in 2018, as where the exhibitors strongly prefer 2019. After consulting the exhibitors, the board of the Mushroomdays Foundation decided in favour of 2019 and it was decided that another evaluation will be made after the 2019 edition to decide the date for the edition after the 2019 one. Exhibitors as well as organizers are aiming to continue the Mushroomdays as an event not to be missed on the international agenda. We already look forward to see all of you again in The Netherlands.

Piet Lempens
Chairman Mushroomdays Foundation

Stichting Champignondagen/Mushroomdays Foundation
+31 (0)654 315 666
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www.champignondagen.nl / www.mushroomdays.com

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