Looking back at May 2002 there was plenty going on in the Irish mushrooms scene.
There was discontent around the issue of Polish mushrooms potentially finding their way into Irish mushroom punnets. Although there were cordial visits by Polish mushroom growers to Irish mushroom farms back then too.
Dave Seaby was writing on the problem of Overlay. Amycel had organised a trip to San Francisco for Irish growers and there were farm walks a plenty happening in Tipperary and Monaghan. Sadly though the mushroom industry was in decline in the north of the country as an item on Inishowen accurately predicted the demise of the growing outlets in Donegal.
Looking back to May 2012, there was a heatwave in the country after a cold start to the month. AST Totten Ltd had started manufacturing replacement air and compost sensors for all computerised mushroom control systems used in Ireland.
And Francisco Arqueros’s academic paper Irish Mushroom Industry Examined - a study of Workers against Institutions Power Relations and Political economy in the Irish Mushroom Industry was available for anyone to read online - the link is still there in the archive section of themushroompeople.com website.
