KernAktuell September 2019, News
Mushroom Harvest 2019
The mushroom harvest in autumn 2019
Viewed in global terms, this year is a very poor one for mushrooms: in particular, yields of porcini are far below average.
Even in early summer the porcini harvest in Europe was unsatisfactory, and the autumn harvest is slow. In China the situation is worse than at any time in the past 15 years. The overall result is that this year’s mushroom prices are continuing to rise. Estyria purchased good supplies at the right time and can still buy more, although any topping up will be at higher but still reasonable prices. Estyria is thus without doubt one of the few producers that is able to supply goods on the basis of a large allocation of European produce.
With regard to chanterelles the harvest has been relatively normal. There are only very few horn of plenty mushrooms, and in consequence prices are high.
In the USA and Canada this year’s quantities of morels are also below average. The current harvest in Chile is likewise lower than was expected.
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Alwera AG, Estyria’s parent company, is responsible for production of the raw goods via a contract farming system. The two companies have for some years maintained the largest PDI area of oil pumpkin in Austria and they know the fields and the farmers personally.
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While modernity has brought progress in many areas, the traditional Styrian stamp press process is still the best way of making pumpkin seed oil. The main difference between this and other pressing methods is that we work with open roasting pans. At our plant, people check when the pumpkin seeds are perfectly roasted and so will yield the very best oil. This enables our experienced oil millers to produce the pumpkin seed oil that has won more prizes than any other – and which as a result of this type of pressing retains all the natural constituents. The untreated oil is not filtered; the particles that make it cloudy settle naturally when the oil is left to rest.
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