Startup pitches containerized mushroom farms to add value to Georgia agricultural residues

Myco Logic cofounder Chris Cornelison told the Georgia House Small Business Development Committee that his company has developed a containerized system designed to automate specialty mushroom cultivation and convert agricultural residues — including cotton gin trash and spent peanut hulls — into mushroom substrate.

Cornelison said the firm’s product is a converted 40-foot shipping container that controls humidity, carbon dioxide and temperature and links those environmental controls to a software platform tuned to individual mushroom varieties. “We’re optimized for mushrooms,” he said. “We are precise, so we’re actually taking data from the research laboratory and integrating that into our product offerings.”

The company told the committee it currently supports more…