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BANANA OVERVIEW

🍌SUPPLY UPDATE

National Banana transport figures for Week 26 were down by approximately 4,300 cartons on Week 25’s harvest at 473,950 cartons. Now that we are well and truly into winter, we can expect production to decline slightly as the temperatures cool and the hours of sunlight are less due to shorter days. Temperatures in the far north remain cooler with temps for last week early A.M. falling within a range of 12.6 - 18.6C across all major growing regions; and day time temperatures still ranging 21.8 - 26.2C. North Qld banana growing regions experienced another relatively dry week with falls as follows: Mareeba receiving 0mm for the week to date; Walkamin with 1.0mm; the coastal regions saw more rain this week with Innisfail receiving a total of 3.0mm and South Johnston totaling 6.8mm across the week.

Banana displays have improved somewhat in terms of fruit quality - bloom is now mixed with still a percentage of brighter fruit but also a percentage of fruit with dulling bloom, there is also a presence of light skin marking, thrip damage, sap staining and light neck damage in some displays etc .

Queensland major retailers had bananas priced 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.

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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 26, 2025 - Avocado production for this week reached 503,204 tray equivalents, approximately 33,000 more than the previous week.

Production across the country saw North Queensland maintain the lead with 52.16% of production with the principal variety being suppled, hass; Central Queensland accounted for 37.33% of the national production followed next by Southern QLD for 4.57%; then WA/NT for 2.69%; then Central NSW for 1.79%; then Sunshine Coast for 0.78%; then TNR for 0.65% of the total production for the week. The preceding changing percentiles regarding region productivity, clearly demonstrates that a number of NQ Hass growers have either completed their hass season (smaller farms) or are coming closer to the end of production ( we expect our own farms to have steady production through until early August) ; the Central Qld region is also seeing a few growers complete their harvest with more major growers expected to complete harvest in late July; whilst regions further south are slowly on the increase.

It is forecast that a total of some 413,745 tray equivalents will be dispatched this week (Week 27) nationally, with the majority of these being Hass! Total avocado production for the next three week period thereafter, is expected to fall within a similar range of 371K-401K tray equivalents per week.

In terms of Avocado retailing in the major supermarkets in Qld this week, we saw pricing as follows - Aldi with Hass retailng at $1.49ea whilst GMAX were at $2.49 each; Coles Qld stores visited had Hass avos at $1.50 each; and Woolworths were retailing Hass at $1.50 each and Gmax Avo for $2.90/piece. Independents in the centres visited were selling larger hass 2 fo $6 and 2 for $7 - using count 14/16/18 in displays.

kenmore independent - multi buy deals with larger fruit 2 for $6

AVOCADO SNAPSHOT

Left to right: Woolworths GMAX Green skin; Woolworths Hass; Coles Hass; Aldi Hass and Aldi GMAX in Queensland stores

Congratulations RER Rural

We are very proud to share the news that one of our growers, RER Rural, took out top honour’s at the recent Atherton Tableland Agricultural Show with first place in the Commercial Produce category with his tray of Ct 20 Premium Hass packed by Rock Ridge Packhouse.

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🍌Bananas at Aldi

🥑Avocados at Aldi

🍌Bananas at Coles

🥑Avocados at Coles

🍌Bananas at Woolworths

🥑Avocados at Woolworths

BANANAS AT ALDI

ALDI INDOOROOPILLY

Cavendish Bananas priced at $4.49/kg - some light skin marking and neck injuries noted. Majority of the display was backward in condition.
Havana bananas - priced at $7.99/kg. Good quality this week.

ALDI KENMORE

Cavendish Bananas priced at $4.49/kg - again, not a lot of yellow throughout this display!
Havana bananas - priced at $7.99/kg.

ALDI WEST END

Cavendish Bananas priced at $4.49/kg. Some quite dull clusters..
Havana bananas at $7.99/kg.

BANANAS AT COLES

COLES INDOOROOPILLY

Cavendish on display $4.50/kg - fruit with mixed bloom. Kids packs at $4.50ea.
Red Tips $5.90/kg. Lady Fingers $8.90/kg. Organic at $5.90/kg.

COLES KENMORE

Cavendish on display $4.90/kg and Kids Bananas packs $4.90ea.
Red Tips $5.90/kg. Lady Fingers $8.90/kg. Organic at $5.90/kg.

COLES WEST END

Cavendish on display $4.90/kg. Kids packs at $4.90ea.
Red Tips $5.90/kg. Lady Fingers $8.90/kg.

BANANAS AT WOOLWORTHS

WOOLWORTHS INDOOROOPILLY

Cavendish priced at $4.50/kg- mixed bloom throughout clusters on display - light skin marking, Kids packs at $3.50ea.
Red Tipped bananas at $5.90/kg. Organic at $6.00/kg. Ladyfingers at $9.00/kg.

WOOLWORTHS KENMORE

Cavendish priced at $4.50/kg. Kids packs at $3.50ea.
Red Tipped bananas at $5.90/kg. Organic at $6.00/kg. Ladyfingers at $9.00/kg.

WOOLWORTHS WEST END

Cavendish priced at $4.50/kg. Kids packs at $3.50ea.
Red Tipped bananas at $5.90/kg. Lady Fingers at $9.00/kg. Organic at $6.00/kg.

HARRIS FARM WEST END

Cavendish priced at $4.99/kg. Plantain bananas at $9.99/kg. Hand Eco bananas at $7.99/kg.
Red Tipped bananas at $5.90/kg. Lady Fingers at $6.99/kg. Organic at $7.99/kg.

AVOCADOS AT ALDI