QUICKLINKS

BANANA OVERVIEW

🍌SUPPLY UPDATE

National Banana transport figures for week 35 were not received at the time of release. Temperatures in the far north have been milder this week with early A.M. temperatures falling within a range of 12.6 - 18.8C across all major growing regions; and day time temperatures still ranging 25.6 - 28.1C. Rainfall in North Qld banana growing regions this week were rather scant on the Tablelands with recordings as follows: Mareeba receiving `0mm for the week and Walkamin with 0mm; with the coastal regions also having minimal falls - Innisfail receiving a total of a 2.0mm and South Johnston receiving 0.6mm throughout the week.

Banana skin bloom varied across displays, noted a little rub marking and sooty mould present in a few displays.

Retail ticket pricing in Queensland for cavendish bananas were as follows: Aldi’s banana ticket price at $4.49/kg; Woolies offered fruit at a ticket price of $4.50/kg; and Coles were offering fruit at $4.50-$4.90/kg in the stores visited.

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BANANA SNAPSHOT

Left to Right: Aldi; Coles and Woolworths Cavendish Displays

AVOCADO OVERVIEW

🥑SUPPLY UPDATE

In a nutshell the national production figures for last week were as follows:

· Week 35, 2025 - The industry experienced an overall 18.49% decrease in production on the previous week’s harvest with this weeks total of only 306,796 tray equivalents harvested and transported (approx 70,000 less tray equivalents) on Week 34, 2025 production. After allowing for exports of 75K; a further 73K of suitable sizing for prepacking/processing this left just 159,000 tray equivalents for domestic sales - only some 95,000 were of premium grade fit for supermarket sales!!

Production across the country saw Tristate take the lead - accounting for 32.84% of the national production, followed by WA/NT accounting for 22.82% ; whilst Central NSW accounted for 21.35%, Southern Queensland for 15.82%, North Queensland for 4.27%, TNR for 2.76%, and Sunshine Coast for 0.14% of the total production for the week.

· It is forecast that a total of some 397,408 tray equivalents will be dispatched this week (Week 36) nationally, with the majority of these of course being Hass! Production for the next three week period thereafter, is expected to fall within the range of 378K-409K tray equivalents per week.

In terms of Avocado retailing in the major supermarkets in Qld this week, we saw pricing remain the same as last week ie - Aldi’s Hass at $1.69each; Coles Qld stores visited had Hass avos on promo at $1.50ea, and Woolworths also were retailing Hass at $1.50ea.