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Some reasons for an event include: Boosting sales during slow times, promoting store openings, recognizing customers who spend the most, and targeting your primary customers for a "night out."

Recent statistics indicate that marketing to restaurant chefs is a viable option for growers.

Wineries that offer tastings create a relationship with their customers, encouraging them to purchase wines at the vineyard, and also increase future sales at state-run liquor stores and restaurants.

Create a customer journey map to learn about your tasting room customers, why they visit, and the actions you need to take to learn about issues or opportunities necessary to exceed visitor expectations.

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a concept designed to encourage relationships between consumers and growers, and for consumers to become more knowledgeable about the way their food is grown.

A retailer's purpose is to meet consumer needs and wants. Create a space that is inviting and visually appealing.

Differentiating themselves from the competition is necessary for retailers to become and remain foremost in their customers' minds.

New Generation Cooperatives shift the focus away from selling a commodity to offering a value-added product.

If retailers don't know what customers want, or ignore requests, clientele may choose to shop elsewhere. Instead, learn about consumers and their interests.

Food contact surfaces (FCS) are different than general sanitation (GS) areas on a mushroom farm, and a product may not necessarily be approved for use on any FCS.

In choosing disinfectants for use, mushroom growers must consider several factors.

Reading a label is the one way to obtain information on how to use a given product in mushroom production.

This article is designed to be a constructive review of Verticillium Dry Bubble, the most common fungal disease of the commercial mushroom Agaricus bisporus.

A few practical tips on Phase I and Phase II substrate (compost), and the substrate preparation (composting) process, and formulating mushroom compost.

Spent mushroom substrate is the soil-like material remaining after a crop of mushrooms. Spent substrate is high in organic matter making it desirable for use as a soil amendment or soil conditioner.

This article provides basic information on seeding substrate and management of the vegetative stage of growing the commercial mushroom, Agaricus bisporus.

Sciarid flies, Lycoriella mali, have been the most devastating insect in the Pennsylvania mushroom industry, at least since September of 1979.

Phorid flies, Megasellia halterata, in general may be more numerous than sciarids, but phorid flies cause less mushroom damage than sciarid flies.

Parasitic and saprophytic species of nematodes associated with commercial mushroom growing are routine inhabitants of most agricultural soils.

Una plaga de importancia secundaria en Norteamérica es el mosco phórido, Megaselia halterata.

La mancha bacteriana puede ser endémica de las casas de cultivo del champiñón, dañando la calidad de los champiñones y causando pérdidas de rendimiento.

To begin a review about Phase II composting, first we should think about the organism we are trying to grow and why it has such a finicky food source.

El moho verde se caracteriza por un crecimiento del micelio blanco y denso seguido de una esporulación extensa de color verde.

Este documento ha sido diseñado para servir como una revisión de la Burbuja Seca causada por Verticillium, la enfermedad de origen fúngico más común de la seta Agaricus bisporus.

Steam-off is done to minimize the chances of contaminating subsequent mushroom crops when substrate, which may be infested with pests and/or pathogens, is removed from a house.