A Poor Picker's Prayer
1/26/2002 A mushroom picker expresses her trials and tribulations!
NO STAGING FRIGHT
1/24/2002 Cavan growers are adopting the staging tactic in their battle to grow more competitively than anyone else in the land.
MIANI FEBRUARY MEETING
1/24/2002 The Mushroom Industry Association of Northern Ireland is holding a meeting for all N.I. growers on Tuesday 12th February at 8.00pm in the Drumsill Hotel, Armagh.
NEW YEAR WISH
1/24/2002 The December issue of The Mushroom Journal was mostly devoted to the subject of compost and the sometimes fraught relationships that exist between composters and growers in the industry.
INDEPENDENT SPAWN MAN
1/24/2002 Spotted in Ireland recently was independent spawn man Stuart Whitehall of IPP Ltd.
ROBOTIC BLOCKER FOR MOY YARD
1/24/2002 The first fully automatic blocker in Ireland is due for delivery at McGeary's in early March 2002.
FAVOURING EURO ENTRY
1/24/2002 It's no surprise to read that 70 per cent of businesses canvassed in the North on whether they favour entry into the new currency zone, respond in the affirmative.
RETIRING
1/24/2002 One of the most familiar faces in the mushroom industry has decided to retire; Pat Knipe started to deliver spawn in the late nineteen sixties....
ITALIAN PERFORMANCE
1/24/2002 Stalker is hearing good reports from growers using the new F58 strain from Italspawn.
U.S.A. BOUND?
1/24/2002 A number of growers have expressed interest in Amycel's proposed trip to the U. S.
NEW PACK HOUSE & OFFICE
1/24/2002 The extension to the McGeary Pack House has been completed.
NEW MAN AT THE TOP
1/24/2002 There's to be a new top man at Teagasc in the near future.
FOOT-AND-MOUTH FREE
1/24/2002 Britain was finally declared free of foot-and-mouth at midnight on the 14th of January.
NEW QC NOT SILK
1/24/2002 Damien Mc Elroy has been appointed as Quality Controller at McGeary Fresh.
