In today’s competitive landscape, it’s easy for a business to stagnate and consequently fall behind rival companies. One of the things that can give a mushroom growing farm an edge over its competitors is ensuring that it’s only using modern, innovative technologies and equipment.
What features should mushroom farm’s equipment have for achieving optimal picking efficiency? Is it worth investing in high-quality equipment and what features indicate high-quality? We’ll answer all of those questions below!
Mushroom picking lorry
When talking about equipment necessary in modern mushroom growing farms, automation features in high-quality mushroom picking lorries have to be mentioned. Automatic movement on the platform leads to higher picking efficiency (more kilograms of mushrooms per square meter of harvest), which in turn positively affects the farm’s overall profits. Automation of the up and down movement is especially important, but left and right movement automation is available as well.
Easy picking from the top and bottom shelves of the shelving is also an important feature. In older, less advanced lorries, top and bottom shelf picking could be problematic, especially for pickers of short height, leading to the need to purchase additional costly equipment.
Modern lorries also provide optimal battery capacity, which means that there won’t be breaks in the middle of picking in order for the machine to recharge. Depending on the number of start-ups and load placed on the machines, they can operate for as long as 40 hours on one charge. What’s more, the charging doesn’t require supervision and it will automatically stop once the battery is full.
Climate system
In order for the mushrooms to grow and be of highest quality, it’s necessary for appropriate conditions to be kept in the growing chambers at all times.
Good climate control systems will ensure that the conditions are ideal, resulting in uniform mushrooms and increased profits, all while lowering the expenses related to heating, cooling and ventilation. They are equipped with multiple temperature sensors, as well as an external weather station.
Watering system
Modern watering systems allow for both automatic watering at chosen times and manual watering. In both cases the system handles the actual watering process on its own, the difference is whether it starts on its own (after the worker responsible for ensuring proper mushroom watering selects the schedule) or after a manual press of a button on a touch panel.
The system provides remote access to all of the watering parameters and data (complete with graphical diagrams for faster and easier analysis) at all times.
Running a successful modern mushroom growing farm requires high-quality, well-thought out equipment that maximizes picking efficiency and doesn’t generate lofty expenses. All types of equipment described above (and many more) can be purchased from reliable suppliers, such as GROWTIME.
