AFBI TEAM UP
8/23/2010 The news that Monaghan Mushrooms and McDon Mushroom Casing are teaming up with AFBI to fund new research and development is surely a coup for the research station in Loughgall.
OFFICIAL OPENING
8/23/2010 The new Monaghan Mushrooms associate company’s mushroom growing site and R&D centre was officially opened In mid August by the Republics Minister for Agriculture Brendan Smith.
CONVEYING THE MESSAGE
8/23/2010 Eagle eyed attendees at the opening of the new Tyholland facility may have noticed some differences in the conveying mechanisms used on site.
AGFLATION
8/23/2010 Economists have been postulating the return of stagflation to the economy, the first time since the early 70s when the term was coined.
3 IN A ROW
8/23/2010 Congratulations to Amycel rep Kieran Smyth who, along with his wife Michelle, celebrated the arrival of babby number three over the summer.
HAY TODAY, GONE TOMORROW
8/23/2010 Police in Thames Valley in England have warned farmers to look out for their hay.
BIZ 41
8/23/2010 Stalker was impressed by some of the photographs in the 41st edition of the Mushroom Business magazine.
PRICES UP
8/23/2010 FreshInfo is reporting that UK produced mushroom prices could increase by up to 20 per cent as a result of the global wheat crisis.
OLYMPIAN PROMOTION
8/23/2010 With all the chat of promoting the produce of late, Stalker wondered if the mushroom sector might go down the same road as the pork industry.
CLOSURE THREAT
8/23/2010 The threat of governmental cutbacks is being felt in every corner of the UK and Ireland, and cuts to essential scientific services both north and south have been mooted.
OLYMPICS BANDWAGON
8/23/2010 With the London Games nearly upon us – yes its two years away, but...
SURPRISE SURPRISE
8/23/2010 Funnily enough, Stalker was not at all surprised to read...
WATER v OIL
8/23/2010 With all the talk of oil prices in the last year or so, there’s one interesting factoid that came to Stalker’s notice just recently
KOMBUCHA, HOW MUCHA?
8/23/2010 Some say that kombucha fights cancer and arthritis, others say that it doesn't.
RURAL CRIME
8/23/2010 Rural crime is on the rise as farms across the country are being targeted by thieves.