Publications & news

Discover new articles, industry updates, and expert insights curated to keep you informed and inspired.

Caution: We currently don’t update Industry news.

Is Canada between Europe and the USA? UMDIS` visit

During North American Mushroom Conference UMDIS talked with lots of mushroom producers from Canada – and in the beginning of March we as well visited the farms in Ontario, Eastern Canada. That is what we can tell about how the mushroom business in Canada looks like.
15 minutes read
24.05.2024

Mushroom prices in Romania in May

UMDIS Mushroom Agency made a price monitoring of mushrooms in Romania. Romania is the country where culture of mushroom consumption is pretty developed – however it is usually about forest mushrooms.
15 minutes read
24.05.2024

€3,700,000.00 Contract. Agro-Projects Starts to Build a Mushroom Facility in Ontario

Agro-Projects stems from their recognized prowess in industrial mushroom cultivation facility design. Todd Shapiro, CEO and Director of Red Light Holland, expressed confidence in this partnership, highlighting Agro-Projects’ expertise and the potential it holds for achieving mass production goals.
15 minutes read
23.05.2024

Mushroom prices in Poland in May

UMDIS monitored prices on mushrooms in one of Polish supermarkets. Poland is the largest button mushrooms producer in Europe.
15 minutes read
23.05.2024

Mushroom prices in Ireland in May

UMDIS Agency grower during consulting in Ireland – looked at mushroom prices in this country.
15 minutes read
22.05.2024

Video how supplements for mushrooms are produced – at SUPERCHAMP

Today, SuperChamp, Dutch producer of supplements, operates from a state-of-the-art, fully automated production facility, ensuring a seamless process from receiving goods to packaging. The facility adheres to the highest standards of hygiene, safety, and traceability, with ISO 22000 certification since 2014.
15 minutes read
22.05.2024

Mushroom prices in Bulgaria in May

UMDIS Mushroom Agency was in the store in Bulgaria during the courses we organised there in the middle of May.
15 minutes read
21.05.2024

Filling Machine Basic by Mush Comb is your way to start automatically fill your rooms

The labour cost becomes more expensive everywhere. People year after year just do not want to do hard manual job – i.e. filling the growing rooms. As your farm is small – you may feel difficulties in having people to fill the rooms.
15 minutes read
21.05.2024

18-21 of June Basic Online Course on Mushroom Growing

4 Evenings 2 hours every evening (1.5 hours of theory and 30 minutes to answer your questions) With the best trainer
15 minutes read
20.05.2024
Load More

That is how we teach mushroom producers in Bulgaria now

UMDIS Mushroom Information Agency having today the last day of our growing courses in Bulgaria. The trainer is Iurie Boiciuc. The courses are orgaised together with the Bulgarian compost producer BulComp Samsara. Iurie Boiciuc is one of the best consultants in Europe – during the courses he teaches how to improve yields, how to make generations properly, how to work with compost, how to organize the work on the farm correctly etc etc etc. In the courses participate 10 mushroom producers from Bulgaria. Want to sign up for the next Iurie Boiciuc courses? Just send the message to number +380935690941 (Viber, Telegram, WhatsApp).
15 minutes read
01.05.2023

Three countries were present on last Picking School by UMDIS. Sign up for the next School

Last week UMDIS Mushroom Information Agency thought our 4th Picking School in Poland. We teach how to pick 1,2,3rd flush mushrooms, how to make separation right, what is quality and how to make it the best. Also show step by step what to implement on your farm in picking to receive more kg per m2. The motivation system and organization skills as well.
15 minutes read
01.05.2023

Mushroom harvesting courses. Mushroom picking school in Poland. 26.04.2023-28.04.2023

UMDIS Mushroom Information Agency organized the 4th Gathering School in Poland. In English. We teach how to harvest 1,2,3 flushes mushrooms, how to do proper separation, what quality is and how to make it better. We also show step-by-step what you need to implement on your farm when harvesting to get more kg per m2
15 minutes read
28.04.2023

That`s why champignon producers are starting to produce shiitake

In China, for 1 kilogram of shiitake, the producer gets 1 dollar 20 cents. In Europe – from $6 (and a kilogram of shiitake can cost over $16 in the supermarket). So, in China, the champignon producers get bigger margin – while in Europe, the shiitake producers. One log of substrate from Exotic Mushroom Center in Europe now costs $1.9 net, usualy producers get 06.-0.7 kg of mushrooms from a log.
15 minutes read
28.04.2023

Romania: why 25% go for brown mushrooms? And other facts

In Romania 93% of mushrooms produced are button, and 7% are oyster mushroom. There are two largest button mushroom producers – Boglar Champ and Iazul V&V. And nearly ten smaller producers of button mushrooms, plus number of producers of oyster mushrooms.
15 minutes read
19.04.2023

Arpad Mutsy from BioFungi tells how to do mushroom promotion. Video

In this video, Arpad Mutsy, director of BioFungi company in Hungary and Maksym Yenchenko discuss the importance of promoting mushrooms to the public, promotion initiatives, ideas. They note that the mushroom industry has effective communication within itself – but lack of communication with the wider public.
15 minutes read
17.04.2023

Welcome to Polish picking school by UMDIS agency on 24-26th of April

In the course program: 1. Correct organization of mushroom picking. 2. Functional duties of the pickers` leader. 3. Planning of picking process that helps you avoid picking at night and on weekends. 4. 1-2-3 flashes picking technique. 5. The speed of picking and what does it depend on.
15 minutes read
14.04.2023

Lots of photos from Chinese Mushroom Days in March

International Mushroom Days happened in China on 21st-23rd of March 2023. The event was many times postponed due to Covid – and finally the took place. – It was great, many companies in China attended, and some oversea clients also, – tells UMDIS one of our Chinese friends, Alex Lyu from Kingfit, the supplier of equipment.
15 minutes read
11.04.2023

In Hungary the number of small mushroom farms reduces

There is a global trend visible also in Hungary that large mushroom farms expand – and many smaller ones (including those in caves, popular for Hungary) leaving the market. In the Budapest area, there are mushroom farms located in caves that were created because the stones from there were used to build the city itself. Mushrooms were grown in many of such caves for years. Currently, the profitability of such mushroom farms is declining and they by degrees close.
15 minutes read
10.04.2023

Video: Spanish mushroom market is not similar to others in Europe

This video features an interview with Mario Rodriguez Gandia, the owner of Champi Graja, a farm situated in Spain that produces white mushrooms. Mario, along with his two brothers, produces around 50-52 tons of mushrooms, and their main market is the fresh market in Spain.
15 minutes read
08.04.2023

Exotic Mushroom Center is the largest shiitake producer and substrate reseller in Poland

Last year, the market of exotic mushrooms in Europe grew few procent, – says Piotr Rubacha, sells manager of the Exotic Mushroom Center, the largest Polish company producing shiitake. It is European subsidiary company of Qihebiotech, a biggest Chinese producer of substrate for the cultivation of exotic mushrooms- especially shiitake.
15 minutes read
31.03.2023

What Spanish guys say about UMDIS Picking School? VIDEOs

UMDIS Mushroom Information Agency has published the reviews from the last Mushroom Picking School in Poland. The school was made for Spanish mushroom producers. So the reviews are in Spanish. Turn on the subtitles and select English to see the translations 😊
15 minutes read
27.03.2023

Spanish mushroom producers shared why their market is different

– Spain is the third country in Europe in the production of mushrooms, – Pedro Garcia Fajardo, Amycel’s representative in Spain, told us. – It grows 120,000 tons of mushrooms a year. Somewhere half of the production is concentrated in the South, and the second half in the North of the country.
15 minutes read
23.03.2023

Mushroom harvesting courses. Mushroom picking school in Poland. 20.03.2023-22.03.2023

From March 20 to 22, the UMDIS Mushroom Information Agency hosted a group of Spanish mushroom growers at our Gathering School in Poland. We were very satisfied with the course, we compared the Polish and Spanish markets a lot, we looked at what experience we could learn from.
15 minutes read
22.03.2023

Video: How to solve the problem of pickers` shortage and about Exxcalibur new strain by Amycel

Maksym Yenchenko, the representative of Amycel and UMDIS Director spoke with Lukasz Jasinski about new strain Exxcalibur. Listen the whole interview on UMDIS website.
15 minutes read
21.03.2023

“We knew that we would either throw away the mushroom – or make money”, – Yurii Malanyk about the enlargement of the farm and starting selling to supermarketse

Yurii Malanyk’s mushroom farm is located in the Lviv region in the West of Ukraine and has been operating since 2009. It has 12 growing rooms with 18 tons of compost loading. The official name of the company is SOVITA PLUS. The director there is Yurii’s wife, Ms. Maryana. She is very supportive of her husband, deals with papers, accounting, and document flow with supermarkets. She joined the business a year ago.
15 minutes read
16.03.2023

Csaba Hajdu about Hungarian mushroom market. New VIDEO on UMDIS

Csaba Hajdu as an Amycel representative tells UMDIS about mushroom business in the Balkan countries: Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
15 minutes read
15.03.2023

Loading of the 3-phase compost into the growing room using headfiller machine

Loading the room is the most important among all processes that take place on the mushroom farm, because it determines the further success of mushroom cultivation during the entire cycle of 2-3 flushes. Therefore, every mistake that can be made during loading will negatively affect the entire subsequent process. How to prevent this and make the feeling proces correct? I dedicated this my first article on UMDIS to this topic.
15 minutes read
14.03.2023

Mushrooms are now easier to pick. A new strain of Amycel has come out on the market

Most mushroom farms in the world are looking for solutions to make mushroom harvesting easier and faster. They buy modern picking trolleys, tilting and moving shelves, implement new motivational systems, and even invent robots.
15 minutes read
13.03.2023

The course is like a breath of fresh air, – EVGENIA FEDORUSOVA

This week, March 6-8, the second group of UMDIS studied at the UMDIS Polish Mushroom Picking School. We learned out how to pick 1, 2, 3 flashes, how to make separation, how to work correctly with in between flush mushrooms. We understood how to motivate pickers and what to do to avoid lack of them. All this – to make the farms of our participants consistently pick more kilograms from their growing areas.
15 minutes read
10.03.2023

Mushroom harvesting courses. Mushroom picking school in Poland. 06.03.2023-08.03.2023

15 minutes read
08.03.2023

Golden spots on mushrooms – what to do?

Below we publish comment-advise of our consultant Iurie Boiciuc. I recently received lots of photos with golden spots on mushrooms – this is the bacterium pseudomonas gingeri. It usually appears at the beginning of the first flash, a few spots – and then the number increases. On the next flashes, spots are no longer there. Of course, this is a problem with the casing soil.
15 minutes read
08.03.2023

About in between flush mushrooms. Written during UMDIS picking courses by Tomasz Stanisławski

On the farm of Tomasz Stanisławski in Western Poland they do most of processes according to a good plan. Picking of the first flash in one room always ends on Thursday – and in the other always on Friday. We teach such regularity at the picking courses organized by UMDIS agency. The in between flush mushrooms are started to be picked on the 3rd or 4th day after the end of the picking of the first flash.
15 minutes read
07.03.2023

Mushroom business in Argentina – 6 mushroom farms

Simon Franco is the owner of a small mushroom farm “Hongos blanc” (translated as “white mushrooms” from Spanish) in Argentina. He reads the articles that UMDIS agency writes about Europe, Asia, America or Australia and felt like he wants to share something about South American and in particular Argentinian mushroom business.
15 minutes read
04.03.2023

I am glad that now we are going to receive larger yield after the courses, – Olesia Antonenko. The next group starts from Monday

This week UMDIS Mushroom Information Agency held the first Polish Mushroom Picking School together with the trainer Tomasz Stanisławski. The venue is a mushroom farm near Wolsztyn, Poland. On February 27, 28 and March 1, participants from Eastern Europe and Central Asia have already learned the rules and organization of mushroom picking. Some mushroom farms` owners participated in the first courses even decided to send their supervisors to the next group.
15 minutes read
03.03.2023

Thanks for joining!

Thanks for subscribing! We’ve got your email and will send you the freshest updates straight to your inbox.

Great!

Send message

You're all set!

Thanks for reaching out. We’ve received your request and will be in touch within 24 hours.

Great!