"There have been big price in fertilisers, fuel, and even just our packaging costs are going up 70 cents per unit. "We're at least getting double what we normally would get, but we need our prices to go up now because all our commodities have gone up." "We've had a lot of days walking through paddocks cutting vegetables in gumboots and walking through mud and bogging tractors," he said. "īut the Gasparin brothers, like many other growers, have not had an easy season. "We've probably averaged $40 a box for the whole season," he said. Out near Stanthorpe in southern Queensland, the Gasparin brothers are three growers who have never seen their produce sold for so much.Īndrew Gasparin said vegetables like cauliflower and wombok lettuce were going for $10 each, $80 per box.Īnd while for consumers, it feels like a sudden spike, he said prices had been up for most of the season. "Prices are strong, and some potentially high prices, but their volumes are down, and there's also a lot of farms that missed out on totally." No-one is getting ahead The box is designed to accept incoming conductors with a maximum size of 120mm and nine service cables of up to 35mm. "No-one is really benefiting," Mr Trimboli said. Slim-line, compact model designed for wall or pole mounted options, manufactured from a UV stable flame retardant glass filled nylon, the box fully meets the requirements of BS 7656 / ENATS 43-14. "The prices of produce are high, but the volume that normally goes through the central market system and through to retailers is dramatically reduced." He estimated that his wholesale supply was down by 80 per cent. The combination of crops lost to the rain, and struggling plantings due to the cold means wholesalers like Mr Joseph expect the shortage of fresh produce to last for at least the next couple of months.Ĭarlo Trimboli, the chair of the NSW Chamber of Fresh Produce and the managing director of Samson's Fruit and Vegetable Supply, said as long as the supply was low across the industry and demand continued, so would high prices. Crops just aren't going to grow in these conditions." When will prices come back down?
"The really concerning thing about this is that we've got these high-pressure systems coming through as we head into winter, and we're going to see really low temperatures," he said. Grainger is your premier industrial supplies and equipment provider with over 1.6 million products to keep you up and running. Anthony Joseph, says consumers should expect the price hikes on fresh produce to stick around for the coming months.
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