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pigs/sow/year in 1992 and averaging 163.2 days from birth
to 100 kg. using Monoway breeding stock. Henry will have
gilts for sale in early 1993. We wish the Van Dyke family
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26 THE RURAL VOICE
the sap is out of the wood. Over the
winter, the logs are drilled full of
holes in an offsetting pattern. The
shiitake mushroom spawn is placed
in the holes and the holes filled with
wax. Under the best conditions it
takes about eight months for the
fungus to colonize in the wood. The
logs are piled tepee -style in a
woodlot (they can be put in a
greenhouse or other indoor area to
produce a year-round crop). The
fungus will only start to grow when
the wood is 10 degrees or warmer.
Some growers hold the logs inside to
start the growth immediately, then set
the logs out for quicker crops.
"The ideal environment is out in
Mushroom inoculant
takes 8 months to
colonize oak logs
the bush where you would have 50
per cent or less light and humidity
that would be about 80 per cent,
which is what you'd find on the
ground in the lower canopy of the
woods."
The moisture level in the logs has
to be kept high so logs must either be
sprayed with water regularly, or
soaked periodically in a a tank or
pond of water. With the moisture in
the log, it is then "shocked", either
throwing the log on the ground or
hitting it hard with a mallet. It's a
mysterious process but it's been
proven to increase production.
A week later, the mushrooms
should appear, blistering out like
little pinheads all over the log. The
first flush will last for about two
weeks then die down. The log is left
to rest for about eight weeks, then its
resoaked and shocked again and the
process starts over. Outdoors there
will likely be about three crops.
Indoors, in the winter you can get an
extra crop. The average yield is a
pound to a pound and a half of
mushrooms a year per log.
"You can almost control when
you're going to have mushrooms,"
Scheifele says because of the soaking
and shocking part of the management
cycle. In the bush extra rain may alter
the cycle. In the bush, in the hot
weather, you might have to pick
twice a day to keep the mushrooms in