Bord Bia indicate that the UK market for mushrooms is growing steadily in recent years at about 2% per year.
Button/closed cup mushrooms hold the largest share of the market followed by flat/breakfast mushrooms, value mushrooms and then the sliced and exotic mushrooms.
It will be interesting to see what the differences will be in the next few years following EU exit. No trend predictor can go into that territory with any certainty.
With 80% of Irish mushrooms being exported to the UK it feels like we’re in pretty bizarre and precarious situation facing into 2019.
