WEDDING BELLS
6/30/2005 Mushroom growers might have mistaken Friday 10th June for a "bank holiday Friday" if they had been trying to contact JFMcKenna.
LOOKING FOR 3 GEAR
6/30/2005 Mayobridge mushroom man Patsy Murphy was spotted in foreign climes during the month of June.
THE COLD WAR
6/30/2005 With the odd blink of sunlight already peeking through, the war on cooling for this year has well and truly begun!
PENNY OR THREE OFF!
6/30/2005 Stalker was talking with a local mushroom growing concern this month, getting the low down about life at the sharp end.
CHIQUITA CHANGE
6/30/2005 Stalker has learned that Chiquita Mushrooms, one of the largest mushroom production units in Australia, have recently completed another upgrading programme on their mushroom farm in Melbourne.
SUMMER GROWING
6/30/2005 There are favourable comments emanating from growers on the quality of first flushes coming off Italspawn F56.
FLY CONTROL
6/30/2005 The best way to prevent flies moving from house to house is to treat all houses before the populations start to increase.
MUSHROOM TELLY
6/30/2005 BBC2 carried an interesting programme on the growing and cooking of mushrooms of all sorts on Saturday June 4.
GHOSTLY ACTIVITY
6/30/2005 Signs of activity emanating from the McGeary fold in this past month.
ALL GREEK - CHEAP
6/30/2005 Greendale Mushrooms man John Kernan has jetted off again for another week's holiday.
MONTE CARLO OR BUST
6/25/2005 Two local bods were espied at the ever affluent Monte Carlo grand prix recently.
MERVIELLEUX AT MERIEL
6/25/2005 Leading French pharmaceutical company Laboratoire Meriel, manufacturers of Prophyl...
STRAW SHORTAGE AHEAD?
6/25/2005 With the rationalisation that has occurred (and is still ongoing) in the compost end of the industry, the demand for straw has become a worriment to some farmers.
CASE AGAINST CASING?
6/25/2005 Some technical reps have been finding that some growers have been having problems with casing of late.
MUSHROOM NUTRIENT
6/25/2005 IPP's mushroom nutrient product is doing well all over the country by all accounts.