INDUSTRY LOSES EXPERT
7/28/2011 Stalker regrets to inform readers that as of July 1st Henk van Gerwen will be leaving AdVisie "The Mushroom Consultants".
TEAGASC TIDBITS
7/28/2011 The Teagasc Advisory Newsletter July 2011, contains a lot of good information for the mushroom sector, and for growers especially.
TOP 1000
7/28/2011 Stalker had a good peruse through the latest production by The Irish Times of the Top 1000 companies in Ireland.
QUINN DIRECTLY
7/28/2011 Stalker was impressed to hear that Sean Quinn is now involved with the mushroom industry in Ireland.
AUTHOR OF THE MONTH
7/28/2011 Stalker was wondering about some old hands from the mushroom industry and what they might be up to nowadays, following the spate of exits from the industry.
POKER WIZ
7/28/2011 A contact recounted a heart-warming tale to Stalker recently concerning a straw man – not the one from the Wizard of Oz mind you.
RORY OR DARREN?
7/28/2011 Harte Peat supremo Tommy Harte has a well known passion for the wee dimpled balls.
BAG THAT
7/28/2011 Stalker has learned that Harte Peat have purchased a new bagging machine of late.
CITY SLICKER
7/28/2011 Stalker was apprised of the fact that a character in the Dublin based soap bore the name of one our mushroom industry personages
RUSSIAN EMBARGO
7/28/2011 Polish mushroom man K.Szudyga is getting exercised about the Russian embargo on EU veg following the beansprout contamination scare.
AUCTIONED OFF
7/28/2011 There has been a lot of hullaballoo in the media about property auctions of late.
PRINCIPAL PLAYERS
7/28/2011 Association of European Mushroom Growers to Ireland.
ITALIA 100
7/28/2011 The Italian mushroom industry celebrated their 100th anniversary in June.
CENSUS OF MUSHROOM PRODUCTION
7/28/2011 Perusing the census of mushroom production in the Republic of Ireland 2010 Stalker was fascinated to learn that the number of farms in the south had contracted again slightly.
A MUST CONF
7/18/2011 It would seem that the upcoming conference in October will be chock full of new ideas this time around.