Frankly Speaking

Frankly Speaking - Week 21
28 May 2018

Welcome to our week 21 update. Despite the disruption to harvest last week due to the weather the SunGold harvest has completed, and the Hayward harvest is just over 50% complete. The turn in the weather has seen the brix levels lifting and they are now on average between 8.0 and 11.9. The first of the Controlled Atmosphere [CA] rooms have been completed. The continued loading of the CA rooms this week will enable us to get more of the fruit into store in this optimum brix window.

Health and Safety

Over the weekend there was a significant event on one of the orchards where a tractor was driving out of a row with full bins onto a sloping headland. A combination of the downward slope and the weight of the bins pushed the tractor and trailer off the headland into the bush. As a result the tractor driver sustained bruising to his leg, fortunately in this instance the injuries were not serious. This incident is a reminder to have daily discussions and if language is a barrier use an interpreter.

To the numbers [week ended midnight 20 May 2018]:

 

SunGold Conventional

Industry Packed     66,088,592             Seeka Packed    10,622,997     [16%]    
Industry average size      27.36             Seeka average size    26.81      
Loaded out               4,951,821             In store     5,671,177       
On order [next 2 weeks]    741,382

SunGold Organic

Industry Packed            851,163            Seeka Packed     133,723     [15%]
Industry average size        27.50            Seeka average size  25.64            
Loaded out                      95,850           In store      37,867         
On order [next 2 weeks]      14,875

Hayward conventional

Industry Packed      38,822,079            Seeka Packed   10,007,014     [25%]
Industry average size       30.21            Seeka average size    29.72           
Loaded out               5,975,149             In store     4,031,865   
On order [next 2 weeks]  974,390

Hayward Organic

Industry Packed          1,791,530             Seeka Packed            662,445   [31%]
Industry average size         33.34             Seeka average size        33.62
Loaded out                     240,885            In store               421,560
On order [next 2 weeks]      106,267

Sweetgreen G14

Industry Packed          890,616             Seeka Packed              52,351   [6%]
Industry average size       35.36            Seeka average size        35.99
Loaded out                    52,351            In store                         0
On order [next 2 weeks]         0
All done. Successfully completed thanks


Happy and safe harvesting

 

Kind regards

Michael

Seeka Key
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