Market Update Friday 26-04-24

Fruit

Pinklady Apples – starting to see some better growers bring fruit in now, better colour and taste, all New Season now.

Blueberries – Prices for Jumbo local SMART fruit will be $12/punnet Monday.

Grapes – Are all finished for the Local season.

Mandarins – Queensland Imperial and Mojo are nice, local clementine are expected to start next week.

Oranges – Local Mora fruit has arrived, although expensive they are worth every cent.

Pineapples – Extremely short in supply and prices are up, the rain in Queensland is causing havoc.

Plums – Please avoid, fresh stock is coming in slightly soft.

Strawberries – Got our first load of Wanneroo fruit Friday and was nice, Monday will hopefully have more local and maybe 1 more South Australian load.

Watermelon – beautiful Ceres Kununurra fruit has arrived, the last 2 weeks we have had to use Carnarvon to fill the gap, Carnarvon is always a lottery, some cut beautiful, some pale.

Vegetables

Asparagus – We will be using imported (Mexican) bunches again next week.

Bunch Broccoli – local Bunch Broccoli has started, if anyone wants to do a special (bin x 120) then give me a call.

Cauliflowers – Canzirri will have their first pick over the weekend for Monday, best cauliflower all season, prices will ease next week.

Cabbage – Same as Cauliflowers.

Capsicums – Red and Yellow are a real issue, not much in the markets under $12/kg, prices up.

Eggs – Supply has shortened up again, we apologise for any inconvenience and will do our best to fill your orders.

Snow Peas / Sugar Snaps – We have moved on to nice local crates. Great quality, prices should ease next week.

Tomatoes Cherry / Grape – supply has improved, and prices will ease next week.

Tomatoes N1 / Roma – Loose Gourmet and Roma tomatoes have been very nice, please try not to order 500g Roma and 1kg tomatoes, Loose fruit is superior.

Potatoes – Farms are putting their prices up, please see letter below.

A letter regarding price adjustments on potatoes

We appreciate your support to Beta Spuds over the years through various changes and transitions within our business and market dynamics. Our company produces around 25% of our fresh market potatoes off our own farm in Binningup (June to December), plus with the support of our shareholders in Pemberton (January to May), but we still need to outsource 75% of the production to external farms in Busselton, Baldivis, Gin Gin and Dandaragan. It is vital that our supply chain is recognized to provide the WA market supply of fresh grown potatoes 52 weeks of the year with consistency in supply, stability in price and generally uninterrupted service to all customers. Our growers who support Beta Spuds, in-turn support you, our wholesale, retailer, food service and processors in WA via our supply relationships, and we need to support our farms now in this critical time. Climate has impacted greatly on the upcoming crops scheduled for harvest in May and June. A string of 40-degree days in February (in the early stages of the growing cycle) and the impact of almost “drought like” conditions from October 2023 till today in our growing regions has impacted the upcoming crops. From Monday 29th April there will be price adjustments on: |

16kg Premium Whites

3kg & 4kg white/red/blue|

10kg Large (white and red) |

During the month of May, there will be another review on pricing and other lines may be adjusted to suit the conditions, and updated invoice prices will reflect any adjustment. Thank you for your support.

Have a great weekend everyone 😊

Wes