grow shiitake mushrooms and Oyster-style mushrooms
The final decision on whether or not to grow shiitake mushrooms commercially rests on economics. As stated earlier, detailed information on production costs and income is still being developed. Based on experiences in other areas of the United States and overseas, a cord of approximately 125 logs will yield about 500 pounds of mushrooms, or 4 pounds per log. At a selling price of $4 per pound, mushrooms from one cord of wood should generate $2,000.
 
Initial costs for obtaining one cord of logs, by either cutting or buying them, is approximately $100. The spawn for inoculation costs approximately $100. Production costs for labor, supplies, marketing, and amortized costs of refrigeration and irrigation amount to an additional $800 to $1,300. Returns to the grower for his or her labor, capital, and management should be approximately $500 to $1,000 per cord of logs.
 
Growing shiitake mushrooms can be profitable at today's market prices. Profit margins, however, will probably decrease as national production increases and supply approaches demand. The small-scale producer will face competition from large-scale producers as well as from companies that grow shiitake mushrooms on sawdust. The successful grower will be one who produces a quality product at minimum cost while developing and maintaining an effective marketing strategy.
 You provide a proper environment, usually cool and moist.
Getting mushrooms to form can be easy or hard, depending on the mushroom strain you are growing. Oyster-style mushrooms of the Pleurotus and Hypsizygus families are among the easiest to fruit. Lions Mane (Hericium erinaceus) is also quite easy. Maitake (Grifola frondosa) and Morels (Morachella species) are among the most difficult to get to form mushrooms. Shiitake (Lentinula edodes) falls somewhere in the middle. Button mushrooms are easy if you can keep the temperature steady around 65 degrees F.
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