The Economics of Mushroom Production

Farm Finances: Lesson 1

Get to grips with the 3 main types of costs in your mushroom production:

     1)  Capital Costs

     2) Overhead costs

     3) Variable Costs / Production Costs

We take a look at each of these in more detail, looking at typical examples for a small/medium scale mushroom farm.

We also discuss the sorts of factors that can influence whether mushroom production is profitable or not.


Farm Finances: Lesson 2

Take a deeper dive into the numbers in this lesson, where we walk you through an example of a 50kg (110lbs) / week Oyster mushroom farm.


NOTE: this lesson is taken from inside the GroCycle Course & Community. Members have full access to the spreadsheet covered in this video, which enables you adjust it with your own costs, substrate mix, and quantities to create a clear picture of your farm finances.


The lesson is included here as part of this free video series, but the spreadsheet is only available inside the course area.


Farm Finances: Lesson 3

In the final lesson in this series, we share with you some ways to increase your profitability by either:


1)  Increasing your revenue

2) Decreasing your cost of production


We discuss aspects such as:

  • increasing the price you sell your mushrooms at
  • increasing the scale of your production
  • reducing your labour time input
  • investing in machinery & infrastructure to reduce your production costs


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