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

Market Update Monday 15/7/24