Leaping forward twenty years to February 2005, Sylvan Ireland were celebrating five years of Blender Technology at their spawn manufacturing facility, “the most advanced in the world.”
Amycel’s Carl Bozicek was revisiting the discussions on casing and mushroom quality. There was a big item on how the UK and Irish mushroom industries were facing steady decline and needed big investment.
Meanwhile there was more analysis emerging from the USA on the nutritional benefits of commercially grown mushrooms.
With lots of farm closures happening in Ireland and the UK, the face of the industry was changing fast.