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Abstract: There is a need for adequate standards in mushroom cultivation to identify strengths and weaknesses in the operation of a mushroom farm. The aim of this research was to establish relationships between performance indicators and cropping and farm characteristics on mushroom farms by multiple linear regression analysis. Performance indicators used are yield, labour input and harvesting performance. Characteristics used are filling weight of the compost, crop duration, quality grade ratio, harvesting method, supplementation, degree of modernisation, farm size and size of the growing room. Management accounting data from 35 farms and financial accounting data from 56 farms were used. In most groups of farms, the chosen characteristics were responsible for at least half of the variation in the performance indicators. The composition of groups of farms and the kind of accounting system partly determined the relationships to be found. The application of farm adjusted reference values, which take into account individual farm characteristics, seems feasible for different cropping systems.
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