According to the Bord Bia report the UK retail market for mushrooms increased in volume terms, However, declines in average prices resulted in lower prices for Irish mushroom exports.
Volumes up and prices down is not exactly music to growers ears.
It has to be hoped that the prices for the produce will rise, if there’s any hope of sustaining sectoral buoyancy. For there will be more wild currency fluctuations to withstand, as sure as pussy is a cat.
