Dave's Market Update - 26.06.17
IN FRUIT
Strawberries and citrus is what fruit is about this week. The eating quality of the strawberries just improves every week and the supply grows also. The bottom line is fantastic fruit at fantastic prices. These prices will exert downward pressure on the price of the other berries and so shortly there will be bargains in all berries whilst the rain holds off up North. In citrus, our Navels are really sweet and really good value. Lemons have eased and a number of different mandarin varieties are now underway (I had a Daisy yesterday, it was fantastic). Consider a 3kg net or our imperfect range in the Navels to save money in this area. Just around the corner blood oranges (my juicing favourite) are about to start. Consumers can only eat so many mandarins, so as the number of varieties available grow, prices will continue to ease. Paw Paw and Papaya are both plentiful and eating well. Of course the staple offers of apples and pears continue to be available.
Best news of the week is the easing of tomato prices. This week the gap that the recent cyclone in North Queensland caused has been closed, and the supply side of our industry returns to normal. As always it is the odd sizes and wrong (too ripe or too green) coloured fruit that weakens first. Look for some relatively (to the premium stack) cheaper tomatoes as this week goes on. By next week we will be back to what is the norm for this time of the year. Lots of other lines are either cheaper, better quality or easier to source than they were a week ago. Other lines that are much cheaper include Lebanese and Telegraph cucumbers, Cauliflowers (which are a real bargain this week), Iceberg lettuce, 2 kg bags of Kestrel potatoes, spinach, Imperfect parsnips, red capsicums, celery and rhubarb. With school holidays about to start the price drops will continue into next week as demand weakens further.
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