Welcome to this week’s edition of Frankly Speaking – where we update our growers on the latest industry and fruit performance.
Fruit continues to perform well; fruit loss is low. Loading has been smooth, although we have experienced a tightening of the quality standards at the wharf. Offshore fruit quality continues to be good. The better than expected fruit performance does mean there is more fruit to sell than planned and extra shipping has been scheduled. This is both in Hayward and SunGold.
From a Hayward conventional perspective, there were massive loadouts last week. The low fruit loss has contributed healthy estimated time related earnings to the pool of over $750k for the week, bringing the year to date total time earnings to $1.250m. Year to date fruit loss of 0.70% is remarkably low albeit slightly ahead of the industry average at 0.50%.
SunGold time related earnings are remarkable, with earnings in the week estimated at over $250k and year to date estimated over $2.70m. Fruit loss is outrageously low at 0.50%, half the industry average of 1%.
And not to be outdone, year to date time related earnings for Hayward organic are estimated at $138k. Fruit loss is at 0.6% compared to the industry average 0.5%. All low.
In this current week we expect to ship some 615k trays of Hayward, 135k trays of SunGold. SunGold shipping is expected to finish in week 42, 30 weeks after it started. There is 30k of Hayward organic shipping over the next two weeks as Zespri continues to rebalance Seeka’s drawdown having over shipped us earlier. The SunGold organic programme is complete with the last of the part pallets ordered for the local market.
Across our catchments the bud break looks fantastic, dare I say it especially so in Hayward.
Seeka Growers Annual Meeting starts at 4pm, Thursday 4 October at Mount Club, Mount Maunganui, with dinner and guest speaker Colonel Jim Blackwell to follow. Thank you to those growers who have sent in RSVP's. To those who haven't, please reply to your invitation emailed Friday 8 September.
Thank you for your fantastic fruit and my kind regards
Michael
Seeka Key
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