25 September 2019

Fresh Produce Update 26 September 2019

Mango season has hit, and they are getting better and better each week.  Avocadoes are almost finished on the East Coast of Australia, W.A. fruit will start arriving soon which means a hike in price due to freight costs.  Please be patient with the Avocado situation, it drives everyone crazy when the market on Avocadoes isn’t stable.  We do our utmost to keep the prices down and the ripest fruit delivered, but there will be instability over the next month or so.  There is no early stone fruit due to the drought, the farmers are saying this could be the worse year ever for Stone Fruit.  Pray for rain!!  Most lines of vegetables are getting short in supply as the Lockyer Valley and North Queensland seasons are ending.  Prices will rise sharply  especially if the weather continues with no rain. The Queensland orange season has finished.  You can still get your hands on Panama passionfruit and Afourer mandarins, but nashi have become scarce.  In vegetables, we have good supplies of rocket, beetroot, baby cos lettuce, Stanthorpe-grown leeks, zucchini from Bowen, broccoli from Gatton, butternut and kent pumpkin from north Queensland, and local white and purple cabbage.  Red capsicums are not arriving in large volumes this week so prices have firmed. Corn supplies are slowing down and  cucumber supplies are moderate.

Please ensure that at the beginning of the week you get your orders in for specialty produce, as we can’t guarantee supply later in the week.