MushroomLink Magazine Issue 15

We hope you enjoy this issue, with its usual mix of R&D news, the latest in technology from around the world, and pest and disease updates.

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Articles

Levy funded project updates

• Mushrooms and human health

Marketing

• Shoppers say Mmm to mushrooms

• Unlocking the power of data

Growing & Tech

• Is your compost moisture on target?

• Inside Kennet Square, Pennsylvania

Pest & diseases

• Wet bubble - Cause and control

• Beneficial entomopathogenic nematodes 

• Insecticidal soap for mushroom flies

Research & extras

• Identifying bacteriophages in mushroom compost

• Exploring the effects of fatty acids in mushroom compost

MushroomLink Magazine Issue 14

We hope you enjoy this issue, with its usual mix of R&D news, the latest in technology from around the world, and pest and disease updates.

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Articles

Levy funded project updates

• AMSAFE and the death cap murder trial

• Food safety: if something goes wrong

• MLMRU update

• Researching viral diseases

• 2025 Scholarship winners

Marketing

• Marketing update Spring 2025

Growing & Tech

• Mushrooms in China

• The PEATLESS consortium

• Manipulating Agaricus bisporus developmental patterns by passaging microbial communities in complex substrates

Pest & diseases

• Invaders v emergers

• Orange cecids

MushroomLink Magazine Issue 13

We hope you enjoy this issue, with its usual mix of R&D news, the latest in technology from around the world, and pest and disease updates.

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Articles

Levy funded project updates

• Ethylene and mushroom quality - MU24002 kicks off!

• Microbes 101: Understanding human pathogens (and how we find them)

• The Mushroom Health Science Australia Website: A strong start

• The mushroom R&D investment cycle: Part three

Marketing

• Good returns: Driving awareness, taste, appeal and behaviour change

Growing & Tech

• Margin’s mushrooms: From fizz to fungi, a grower’s journey

Pest & Diseases

• Biological control of pests and diseases

• Disorder or disease

• Verification of farm hygiene efficacy by paint roller sampling

MushroomLink Magazine Issue 12

We hope you enjoy this issue, with its usual mix of R&D news, the latest in technology from around the world, and pest and disease updates.

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Articles

Levy funded project updates

• Establishment of the Marsh Lawson Mushroom Research Unit

• Meet the mushroom R&D SIAP

• The mushroom R&D investment cycle

• Mini mushroom growers

• Mushroom levy-funded Nuffield Fellowship

Marketing

• Shaking up summer with the shaker bag

Growing & Tech

• Interpreting the principles of pinning

Pest & Diseases

• Challenges and opportunities for the biological control of mushroom phorid flies using predatory mites

• Research from around the world

MushroomLink Magazine Issue 11

We hope you enjoy this issue, with its usual mix of R&D news, the latest in technology from around the world, and pest and disease updates.

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Articles

Levy funded project updates

• Safe Mushroom

• Transforming food service with Australian Mushrooms

• Stronger together: Recap of the 2024 AU & NZ conference

• The fly doctor is flying in

• Reflections from the 2024 mushroom fund scholarship recipients

• The mushroom R&D investment cycle

• Mushrooms in schools

• Mushroom health science website now live

Marketing

• FY24 Australian mushrooms marketing campaign results

• FY25 new Australian mushrooms marketing campaign

• What’s coming up?

Growing & Tech

• A vision for the future of mushroom harvesting

• Robots picking mushrooms: tackling the robotic harvest challenge

Pest & Diseases

• Michael Wolfin’s war on flies

• MVX syndrome and Phase III compost

• Mushroom farm hygiene mini-series - A recap

Index

• MushroomLink magazine index, Issues 1 to 10

MushroomLink Magazine Issue 10

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Articles

Levy funded project updates

• Nutritional powerhouse: The final year of Australian Mushrooms’ MU20003 project

• Mushroom people development strategy

Marketing

• Media and marketing update May to September 2024

Growing & Tech

• Studying the microscopic metropolis

• KENON MUSHROOMS: Pioneering innovation in Australian exotic mushroom production

Pest & Diseases

• Red pepper mites - A vector of Trichoderma aggresivum

Nutrition and Food Safety

• Imported enoki mushrooms and contamination by Listeria monocytogenes

Post harvest

• Dr Agaricus and ethylene

MushroomLink Magazine Issue 09

We hope you enjoy this issue, with its usual mix of R&D news, the latest in technology from around the world, and pest and disease updates.

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Articles

Levy funded project updates

• Understanding and managing mushroom viruses in Australia

• A new Research, Development and Extension Coordinator to support the Australian mushroom industry

• Protecting the Australian mushroom industry with Safe mushroom

• Mushroom supply chain best practice guide

Marketing

• Marketing efforts March to May

• Latest from the marketing SIAP

• Local Grower Events

• Hort IQ

Growing & Tech

• Shortening the crop cycle

• Managing the mushroom biome

Pest & Diseases

• The key steps in an effective mushroom farm IPDM program

Special Feature - AMGA Conference Preview

• International speaker preview

• Introducing the scholarship winners

MushroomLink Magazine Issue 08

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Articles:

Levy-funded project updates:

• Educating on the benefits of mushrooms in health care settings

• Mushroom farm hygiene mini-series

• Mushroom industry overseas study tour scholarship program

• Current Hort Innovation Mushroom Fund projects

Marketing:

• Mushroom experiential product sampling goes to the beach

• New three pillar strategy to guide marketing in FY2025

• Marketing update: October to December 2023

• Marketing update: Looking ahead

• Main current contracted marketing project actuals at 2022/23 and 2023/24

Pests and diseases:

• Exclusion is a vital component of a mushroom farm’s IPDM program

• Optimise your sanitiser and disinfectant

Growing & technology:

• Cold mushrooms are quality mushrooms

In each issue:

• Research from around the world – lignin removal

MushroomLink Magazine Issue 07

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Articles:

• The future of casing - the answer lies in the soil

• Best practice in mushroom supply chains

• Food safety update: HARPS and compost

• MUSHRoom for a mushboom in healthcare

• MLMRU update

• Marketing momentum rolls on

• Australian festivities for World Mushroom Day

• Sampling program delivers insights and sales

• It's not easy being green - new advances in managing Trichoderma

• AI isn’t just for harvesting - a new home grown tech start up

• Doctor Agaricus - ‘Foaming’

• Research from around the world: Biofilm

MushroomLink Magazine Issue 06

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Articles:

• Changing how we look at mushrooms

• My pesticide doesn’t work

• Monaghan Mushrooms

• Dr Agaricus - Air filled porosity of compost

• Mushrooms and the Australian dietary guidelines

• Mushie marketing moves to pack a punch

• Testing the effects of nitrogen at the MLMRU

• Mushroom production workshop

• FFF: Using Bacillus to control wet bubble disease

MushroomLink Magazine Issue 05

The MushroomLink magazine Autumn edition is available now online. If you’re not yet receiving our magazine, subscribe here for your e-copy.

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Articles:

• Phorid ecology and management

• Spent mushroom substrate for sustainable agriculture

• The future of sustainable packaging

• Life cycle analysis for the mushroom industry

• Claiming Vitamin D on mushrooms

• Improving the food industry menu

• Food safety FAQs: Your questions answered

• Marketing update: Mushie meat tray

• Far Flung Fungi: Statistical modelling for precision agriculture

MushroomLink Magazine Issue 04

The MushroomLink magazine Autumn edition is available now online. If you’re not yet receiving our magazine, subscribe here for your e-copy.

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Articles

• Geoff Price - Giorgi Mushroom Company

• Breeding a better mushroom

• Mycionics: Horticulture, AI and Robotics

• Accurate identification underpins effective pest and disease control

• Sustainable pest and disease management

• Bacteriophages in mushroom compost: Friend or Foe?

• Best practice for the mushroom supply chain

• Marketing update: In-store sampling

• What’s new at the MLMRU

• Modelling a lunar base mushroom farm

MushroomLink Magazine Issue 03

The third issue of the new MushroomLink magazine is now available. Please contact admin@ahr.com.au to organise a hard copy version of the magazine or be put on the mailing list.

Articles:

Developments in mushroom harvesting

Inside the Marsh Lawson Mushroom Research Centre

Alternative casings and a sustainable mushroom industry

Mushroom farming in Ukraine

Storing chemicals safely

Phone a friend for on-farm help

Marketing update: In-store sampling

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MushroomLink Magazine Issue 02

The second issue of the new MushroomLink magazine is now available. Please contact admin@ahr.com.au to organise a hard copy version of the magazine or be put on the mailing list.

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Articles

Can mushrooms really help lower our cholesterol?

Adding mushrooms to the menu - where are the opportunities?

Growing the future together - the 2022 AMGA conference

Feeding mushrooms - the ‘ins’ and ‘outs’ of nitrogen in compost

Poultry litter - more than just a nitrogen source

Graham Price and the history of the Hawkesbury mushroom industry

The power of mushroom waste

Understanding price elasticity in the mushroom industry

National mushroom virus survey

Mushroom marketing update

MushroomLink Magazine Issue 01

The first issue of the new MushroomLink magazine is now available. Please contact admin@ahr.com.au to organise a hard copy version of the magazine or be put on the mailing list.

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Articles:

Mushrooms in Ireland, and the work of Teagasc

A complex web of life: Bacterial fungal interactions

Australian mushrooms marketing rebooted

PCR: A new diagnostics tool gives growers the upper hand in controlling disease

Its a wrap on MU16003 pest and disease management and research services

Norfolk Island mushrooms

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