Mushroom industry group sounds alarm about possible holiday shortage in the United States

Avondale, PA, October 27, 2021—The current market forces of global supply chain shortages, transportation availability constraints, and a drastically reduced farm labor market combined with seasonal threats of crop disease are heavily negatively impacting U.S. mushroom production, resulting in the forecast of a significantly reduced mushroom holiday supply capability, the American Mushroom Institute BB #:162412 announced today.Because the mushroom growing process integrates many other industries’ products into the growing medium for mushrooms, when availability for any single ingredient is compromised, it impacts growers’ ability to mitigate crop threats and to maximize yields. Mushroom farms are doing what they can to push back against these headwinds, but the reality is that the 2021 holiday season will see greatly reduced salable mushroom pounds than in previous years.Mushroom growers can rely on upwards of 30 different inputs or raw materials to make their growing substrate ...