Breakeven yields for cultivated morel mushrooms (<i>Morchella</i> spp.) in the US North Central region-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Breakeven yields for cultivated morel mushrooms (Morchella spp.) in the US North Central region

Published:2024-04-15 Issue:4 Volume:6 Page:829-833
ISSN:2572-2611
Container-title:PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET
language:en
Short-container-title:Plants People Planet

Author:

Lee Seo Woo¹^ORCID,Swinton Scott M.¹,Bonito Gregory²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics Michigan State University East Lansing Michigan USA

2. Department of Plant, Soil, and Microbial Sciences Michigan State University East Lansing Michigan USA

Abstract

Societal Impact StatementMorels (Morchella spp.) are specialty mushrooms that fetch high prices from wild‐foraged or indoor grown suppliers. Outdoor cultivation could expand availability and diversify morel crops. Participatory research trials in the United States during 2021–2023 resulted in low, uneven yields. Cost accounting reveals that in 2023, a producer needed to achieve an average morel yield of 0.16 lb/ft of row to break even. This threshold was sensitive to prices and labor costs. While these findings are preliminary due to a small sample and experimental conditions, they establish baseline indicators for the yields needed for outdoor morel cultivation to break even financially.

Funder

AgBioResearch, Michigan State University

Division of Environmental Biology

Publisher

Wiley

Link

https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ppp3.10514

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