The Economics of Growing Truffles

THE BEST NEWS IN AGRICULTURE!
TRUFFLES CAN BE GROWN IN CANADA!

Ongoing drought conditions in France and Italy and increasing devastation of natural wooded areas that have historically produced truffles resulted in only 100 tonnes produced worldwide in 2007. With harvests predicted to decline further the prices are predicted to rise even higher!

Duckett Truffieres: Leading Canadian Trufficulture

Duckett Truffieres' 2007 truffle production marked Canada's first known successful truffle harvest of the secret masterpiece of nature, wild and deep, the elusive Black Perigord Truffle, T. Melanosporum.

Duckett Truffieres have, in controlled semi-sterile conditions, developed a successful process of germinating, inoculating, and raising host truffle trees for Canadian truffle production. The inoculum used is Certified Black Perigord imported under strict controls from France.

The edaphic and climatic truffle growing requirements of T. Melanosporum can be met in many areas of the lower mainland of British Columbia, Vancouver Island, the Pacific Northwest and the Niagara peninsula of Ontario.

A well-prepared and tended truffle plantation should be ready for the first truffle harvest within five to nine years, as is typical for any fruiting orchard. With the inoculum first imported in 2003, the developing maturity of Duckett's truffiere has now yielded steadily increasing harvests of larger and more plentiful truffles for three harvest seasons. Ducketts use and breed Lagotto Romagnolo Truffle dogs to sniff out the unique scent of mature truffles.