Market Update Friday 26-7-24
Vegetables
Butter Nuts will be around $2.60/kg a tub on Monday, Southwest finished and only Northwest Produce Available.
Leaf Lines: Savoy and Red Cabbage are around $6.00 each. Green Cabbage and Cauliflower will be going down in price to approx. $4.00 each.
Local Ginger has started up.
Sweet Potatoes will be going up next week so prices will be around $5.20/kg.
Asparagus has shortened up as growing regions have changed. As of next week, Asparagus will be around $5.00 a bunch and possibly more.
Beans are extremely short at the moment and will be up in price, expect over $20/kg Monday.
Egg supplies are getting even shorter, and prices have increased. Caged prices are nearly on par with Free range.
Parsnips – there has been no local parsnips this week, on E/States which are all large sorry.
Potatoes are extremely short, yesterday all Select were from South Australian because local farms had no spuds to wash, 4 kilo and 2 kilo White spuds next week will be an issue and possibly not available.
Fruit
Bananas ~ Due to cold weather conditions fruit and supply is short and will continue to get worse for the next couple of weeks, we will do our best, but orders may be cut back. Prices will be going up again.
Honeydew & Rock melon are short, and quality is an issue at the moment, we will do our best to get the correct counts, but they may vary.
Tomatoes ~ we may need to use some South Aussie/Qld fruit as the Carnarvon fruit is watermarked and poor quality.
USA Stone fruit ~ Arriving Monday hopefully.
There won’t be any PP Date/Coconut or PP Date/Almond for several months – 4kg boxes of Loose are available.
Mandarins will be Afourer next week.
Oranges – we have had issues with local fruit going mouldy, the rain and moister is causing this, and yes it can happen overnight, we check every box that goes out.
Strawberries – we are finally starting to get some very nice Wanneroo Strawberries coming through, stock those shelves.
Have a great weekend everyone
Wes
Market Update Monday 15/7/24
Message from our Egg Farm- Our situation, not unlike other companies both in WA and nationally has been hit by further increases. Our increases have been across many areas such as Transport, Packaging, Increase in Fuel levies, interest rates, production, Feed etc. Unfortunately, due to the aforementioned factors we will need to increase the price of eggs by $0.20 per dozen as of 29/07/24 to the total trade.
Vegetables
Broccoli Ice is Extremely short and prices approx. $8/kg. Savoy and Red Cabbage are around $8.00 each and possibly going up even more. Iceberg Lettuce is going to be extremely short in supply this week, still around the $34.00 a crate. Hopefully prices will be back in a week or two. Green Cabbage will be going up to $6.50 each. Cauliflowers will be up around $7.00 and possibly more. Local crops are down and possibly only eastern states available. The outlook for the next little while isn’t looking good. Beans we are able to get a small amount of stringless, but we will be mostly using KBs. Capsicum we are using Geraldton and Carnarvon fruit, there isn’t much glasshouse fruit coming into the markets. Potatoes are an issue at the moment, Royal Blues are short Locally and also on the east coast, we will do our best to supply. This will be on going for about a month. Might be best to order extra Red Potatoes. Pumpkin across the board is very short and all prices are up over $2/kg. Egg supplies are getting shorter, and prices have increased, Tomatoes we are going to change to E/states this week with just too many complaints with Carnarvon fruit :(.
Broccolini – there will be none arriving into the markets until Thursday sorry, weather locally and shortage on the East Coast has caused this.
Fruit
Imperial Mandarins have finished for the season, local Afourer might be our only option after Monday, Bananas have gone up in price slightly again this week, Kiwi Fruit we will switch to NZ fruit this week, but the quality is great at the same price, Limes prices are up, all the wet weather in QLD is finally catching up with the crops, will be over $23/kg. PP Date/Coconut or PP Date/Almond won’t be any for several months – 4kg boxes of Loose are available, Rock melon have jumped in price, it should come back down after a couple weeks, Tamarillo came into the markets again today around $55/tray of 30/33/36 counts, Agents are unsure on when each load will come, but order them if you want and we will do our best :), USA Stone fruit and Cherries are not available until further notice, There was a quarantine issue in a shipment over east which has halted nationwide supply, Blood Oranges have started and are very nice quality.
Please try and avoid Pre-Pack produce, tomatoes, beans, sugar and snow, we have no control over quality suppliers use for these, they are pre-packed off site, I recommend loose produce.
Have a great week 🙂
Wes
Leaf Lines Shortage
Hi All
We are currently experiencing major leaf line shortages.
Savoy and Red Cabbage are around $7.50-$8.00 each and possibly going up even more. Ice Borccoli is approx. $5.50-6/kg, Lettuce prices are up due to the last hail damaged we received roughly around $33 to $35 a crate. Hopefully prices will be back in a week or two. Green Cabbage will be going up to $6.50-$7.00 each and even more. Cauliflowers will be up around $6.00. The outlook for the next little while isn’t looking good.
Sorry we are doing our best to fill orders but there will be cutbacks.
Regards,
Wes
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Winners are Grinners AGAIN !!!!
Winners are Grinners AGAIN !!!!
On Friday night at The Crown Ballroom, Cunderin IGA took out BEST SMALL STORE FRUIT AND VEG at the 2021 WA Fruit and Veg awards, well done Jayson Goldson and his team.
This is a big achievement for Martins Produce, our shops have won this award 4 years in a row, considering there is over 400 shop nominees every year this is a massive achievement.
Well done to my awesome team here at Martins Produce, led by Brayden Munro and Lindsay Yates, all the very early mornings and hard work makes everything worth while when your Customers win these awards, so well done Boys. It has been a very difficult year with supply, with COVID affecting growers finding workers, add in an extra wet winter and several severe hail storms, we have really had to work hard and be ahead of the market, to make sure we can get supply for our awesome Customers.
WELL DONE TEAM!!!
Below is just some of the awesome work Jayson does with his shop at IGA CUNDERDIN 🙂
Winners are Grinners!!!
Morning All
On Friday night our Customer BG’s Farmstand Busselton took out WA BEST FRESH PRODUCE RETAILER OF THE YEAR “SMALL STORE ”
So congratulations to Michael and Tonia, great achievement.
We also had 3 of the top 6 Finalist for BEST REGIONAL STORE.
Have a great week.
Wes
Fruit and Veg Displays
Morning All
Please see below some display ideas, there are many ways you can present your produce, have a look and see if there’s any ideas you can try in your displays.
The more time you can put into your displays, you will see the results in your sales, if you have produce breaking down, please get it off the shelf and sell at a discounted price so you don’t stop sales.
Have a great week
Wes
WINNERS ARE GRINNERS!!!!!!
https://martinsproduce.com.au/news-category/winners-are-grinners/
Well done to my amazing team at Martins Produce!!
Supplier to the winner of WA’s Best Small Store Fruit and Veg Award for the second year running.
Out of 280 nominees we had 2 shops make the final 5
CUNDERDIN IGA – WINNER !!!!!
BG’S FARMSTAND BUSSELTON
Congratulations to both shops on an amazing job with your fruit and veg, a lot of hard work so well done!!!
We had Wagin Foodworks win the same award last year so its a big thrill and very rewarding for all the early mornings and hard work.
Now lets make it a 3 in a row next year 🙂
Cunderdin IGA 2019 Winners !!!
Wagin Foodworks 2018 Winners !!!
CUSTOMER DISPLAY
Please see below what a great job Jayson from IGA Cunderdin is doing with his display, obviously it takes a lot of time and work but the end result looks great, well done Jayson !!!
