Many growers down the years have suffered the complete pain that is attendant to boiler malfunction.
Steam cookout is an important part of the hygiene methods used on the mushroom unit and if the boiler blows up or malfunctions, the steam cook-out availability disappears.
Spare a thought for the good folk/ boffins at the Teagasc Kinsealy mushroom unit. They had a new steam boiler in place to use in steam cook-out, to ensure that the unit was not a potential source of any contamination.
Stalker can report that the boffin's boiler went kaput, thus depriving the scientists of an essential tool.
Some experimentation has consequently been delayed - it's back to the test-tubes until September when a new boiler will be up and running.
The industry is indebted to the scientific endeavours carried out at research stations across the country North and South.
Here's hoping that it will be full steam ahead come the fall!
