Recently added articles from Mushroom News:
Education, cooperation & compliance.
Jun 01, 2009; ... Two training programs recently were offered to mushroom farms in Pennsylvania. AMI's MGAP Sessions A Great Success reveals that classes held in April were well attended and very effective. The Mushroom Good Agricultural Practices (MGAP) workbook is available to all mushroom farms, and ...
Creating and managing a diverse workforce.
Jun 01, 2009; ... For several years, employers in various industries ranging from high tech to agriculture have known that they face a potential labor shortage. Not only do employers need to add hundreds of thousands of jobs in the coming years, they also will need to fill existing positions each year due ...
Mushroom farm employees graduate from supervisor training course.(labor relations)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Employees at local mushroom farms recently graduated from a series of supervisor training classes and received certificates for their participation. Rafael Ramos, Director of the Ombudsman Program for mushroom growers, offered the classes at the AMI office. Supervisors from C.P. Yeatman & ...
La Comunidad Hispana & Kaolin Mushroom farms build language skills.(labor relations)
Jun 01, 2009 ... When Efrain Zavala Lara began working at Kaolin Mushroom Farms, Inc. in 1985, he had little time for school. "I have four kids," he recalls. "My wife had to work nights and I had to watch the kids." Now 48 years old, Lara is an Assistant Manager at Kaolin and has two of his children ...
Field sanitation standards will be enforced.(labor relations)
Jun 01, 2009 ... The Wage and Hour Division (WHD) of the United States Department of Labor (DOL) is responsible for administering and enforcing federal laws that set basic labor standards. Field sanitation standards are reviewed here to remind mushroom growers that it is their responsibility to provide ...
Marvelous mushrooms: as consumers focus on health & value. Mushrooms are becoming an all-important addition to the foodservice industry.(mushroom council update)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Mushrooms are indeed mushrooming in their mentions on restaurant menus. According to information from Food Beat 2008, a market research firm based in Wheaton, IL, as supplied by the San lose, Ca-based Mushroom Council, 77 percent of the Top 200 restaurant chains now have mushrooms on their ...
Expansion & innovation.(editor's note)
May 01, 2009; ... Are you interested in what other companies do to stay competitive? Learn about a mushroom farm that upgraded facilities, a food product supplier who received an award for value added products and a composting company with a new product line. Mushroom News looks for features on expansion ...
A Year of recognition To-Jo mushrooms wins two awards.(general issue)
May 01, 2009; ... Four generations of D'Amicos have grown mushrooms in southeastern Pennsylvania, and each generation has built upon the previous. Joseph A. D'Amico started growing mushrooms in 1932 after purchasing a stone quarry in Avondale that came with a small mushroom farm that could produce 50,000 ...
Specialty Mushroom production evolves in Southern California.(general issue)
May 01, 2009; ... Golden Gourmet Mushrooms, Inc. (GGM) has been cultivating and introducing new species of mushrooms to North American consumers since 1987. GGM's original production facility consisted of a 60,000 square foot building. From 1987 to 1994, the company used a bulk-pasteurization method to grow ...
Skyland USA develops green roof soil.(general issue)
May 01, 2009; ... Skyland USA LLC produces the only branded green roof media--rooflite[TM]--available nationwide for the green roof industry. Green roofs have been around for centuries in some European countries. The modern green roof movement started in Germany in the 1960s, and is gaining notice as ...
Situational growing.(Spore prints)
May 01, 2009; ... Awhile ago in Kennett Square, PA, I watched a game of my beleaguered Cubs once again getting out hit, out pitched and out coached. The commentators mentioned that the Cubs are clueless with respect to "situational hitting"--that is modifying their approach to hitting depending on the ...
Double cropping Agaricus bisporus.(current research projects)
May 01, 2009; ... Over the last two years, we have conducted several experiments to explore the effect of re-supplementing and re-casing mushroom compost for a second crop. These experiments involve removing the casing overlay after 1st, 2nd, or 3rd break and then re-supplementing the compost with various ...
McPheron appointed new Dean of Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.(Industry news)
May 01, 2009; ... Bruce A. McPheron will begin his new job as the dean of Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences on July 1, 2009. he succeeds Robert D. Steele, who is stepping down after 12 years to return full-time to the college's faculty as a professor in the Department of Food Science. ...
Gildow named head of Penn State Plant Pathology Department.(Industry news)
May 01, 2009; ... Frederick Gildow, professor in Penn State's Department of Plant Pathology, recently was named head of the department. He succeeds Barbara Christ, who assumed the post of senior associate dean in the College of Agricultural Sciences in January. "Fred Gildow is the embodiment of ...
What to expect with personal technology.(personal computing)
May 01, 2009; ... "If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me." Shakespeare's words are just a wise today, but this hasn't stopped people from trying to divine the future. Crystal balling the near future is a lot less risky than ...
Science & Technology articles.
May 01, 2009 ... Mushroom News publishes a series of peer reviewed scientific articles entitled, "Science and Technology" which deals with all aspects of adaptive and basic research on edible mushrooms. Papers to be published in this category are reviewed for scope, merit, originality and style by a panel ...
AMI offers cookbook for sale.
May 01, 2009 ... The AMI has updated and expanded the Mushroom Lovers' Cookbook. It contains recipes ranging from appetizers to low-calorie dishes to a new section dedicated solely to specialty mushrooms. Also included in the cookbook's 196 pages are helpful hints for cooking with mushrooms, nutritional ...
$10,000 Sinden Scholarship offered this year.
May 01, 2009 ... The Dr. James W. Sinden Scholarship Committee is pleased to announce the availability of its scholarship award. The Committee awards one or more scholarships to a graduate student or students conducting dissertation research involving edible mushrooms and/or other edible fungi including ...
Upcoming events.(Calendar)
May 01, 2009 ... 2009 May 3-6 20th NAMC Niagara Falls, Canada * canadianmushroom.com/namc June 10-12 Dutch Mushroom Days Brabanthalen, The Netherlands www.champignondagen.nl June 18-21 5th International ...
Michael Pechart named PDA's deputy secretary.(mushroom NEWS flash)
May 01, 2009 ... Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff recently named Michael Pechart, his executive assistant and policy director, as the department's deputy secretary of marketing and economic development. Pechart will continue to serve the department's policy needs while overseeing the bureaus of ...