US mushroom sales topped the 1 billion dollar mark easily this year.
As noted before the mushroom industry in the US had reached the $1billion mark last year – now it has hit $1.1bn.
$1.1 billion worth of domestically grown mushrooms shipped in 2011-12, according to the annual mushroom report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service.
It certainly shows that the industry is expanding.
As the president of the American Mushroom Institute Laura Phelps put it: “To be up 4% is great, and we’re happy that the demand is there to absorb it.”
