GTL Europe’s tilting shelf harvesting system is designed to improve the efficiency of picking by allowing pickers to see the bed and use both hands to harvest mushrooms. It also takes trimming and packing out of the growing room. The system has now been refined further, with new tools soon coming online for both brand new growing rooms and those wanting to retrofit an existing farm.

Mushroom farms world over struggle with labour shortages. The work is difficult and the conditions sometimes uncomfortable. In Canada, this challenge is not a recent one with the farming industry struggling with workforce shortages for at least ten years. Thanks to the revolutionary advances in technology, automation has emerged as a very real and viable solution.

Paulette Baumgartl and Dr Jenny Ekman spoke to the team behind an intelligent solution.