Frankly Speaking

Frankly speaking - Week 21 Update
28 May 2014
Frankly speaking - Week 21 Update

Please accept this report to the end of week 21 [Sunday 25 May].  

We are now into the home straight of mainpack and slightly ahead of our throughput plan. While cold mornings have added to the dynamic by delaying the start of picking each morning, and causing some canopy damage over the last 2 mornings, we are still expecting to finish after about another 7 days packing. Main Road, Peninsula and Kerikeri will finish this week.  The last tranche of Organic packing is underway on Huka 1 and we are at full capacity across all Te Puke/Maketu region machines and Huka 2.

While fruit quality generally continues to be good, the variability between orchards continues however we are still packing some tremendous lines which are appreciated by the post-harvest teams.

I am pleased to say there are no safety incidents to report.

The statistics as at End Wk 21

Hayward

Seeka Packed:                                   12,213,486 trays                Industry 49,274,495 trays [Seeka = 24.8%]

Average reject rate:                             17.75%                                  Average size      32.94    

In store                                            6,482,207 trays

On order week 22                            471,841 trays

On order week 23                            508,261 trays

We now have only 104k trays left to move by the end of week 24 – the next contractual hurdle. Nice and orderly.

Hayward Organic

Seeka packed :                                 641,892 trays                      Industry 2,438,107 trays [Seeka 26.3%]

Average reject rate:                            26.87%                                  Average size      35.21

In store:                                               229,434 trays

On order week 22                              42,113   trays

On order week 23                                 2,559  trays

Hayward organic packout has now commenced for the run to completion.

Hort16a

Seeka packed :                                 447,222 trays                      Industry   6,305,054 trays [Seeka 7.1%]

Average reject rate:                            16.80%                                  Average size      32.56

In store:                                              232,253  trays

On order week 22                              36,662 trays

On order week 23                              25,598 trays

Northland packout complete – and completing at Peninsula. Orders slow.

G3

Seeka packed :                                 1,111,810  trays                 Industry 10,713,541 trays [Seeka 10.4%]

Average reject rate:                       15.38%                                  Average size      31.93

In store:                                              610,996 trays

On order week 22                           21,767  trays

On order week 23                           16,301  trays

Orders remain slow.

G9

Seeka packed :                                 176,823 trays                      Industry 1,764,466 trays [Seeka 10.0%]

Average reject rate:                           15.21%                                  Average size      31.85

In store:                                              156,188 trays

On order week 22                               21,767 trays

On order week 23                              14,834 trays

Fruit quality in G9 in 2014 actually very good with few reported shrivel instances.

 G14

Seeka packed :                                 116,410 trays                      Industry   936,622 trays [Seeka 12.4%]

Average reject rate                             20.31%                                  Average size      36.08

In store:                                               18,724 trays

On order week 22                                4,640 trays

On order week 23                                   517 trays

Still in the home straight.

Close

Thanks to everyone for your efforts – we are now on the push for home.

Kind Regards

Michael

Seeka Key
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