
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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