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Crop Forecast
As the season progresses in each region, the timing of harvest for each variety and weekly volume estimates will be adjusted. Please check the updated forecast and crop flow tables as they are released.
If you are a grower and have not already submitted your forecast for the season, or if your forecast has changed please provide this to us.
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Regional Reports
Darwin and Katherine
In Darwin, volumes dispatched from the region are declining with growers either finished harvest or planning to be finished over the next 2 weeks.
In Katherine, growers are well into harvest with significant volume being dispatched to market.
Kununurra
Light volumes continue to be dispatched from Kununurra.
Burdekin and Bowen
Growers in the Bowen region are well into the season with Burdekin growers also having commenced harvest.
Mareeba and Dimbulah
Growers are monitoring fruit with some growers looking to start early spot picking within the next week. Volumes are expected to increase around mid-December extending through to February/March for late season varieties.
South East and Central Queensland
Growers in this region have mixed reports on crop yield. For Kensington Pride and R2E2, yields are well down on previous seasons, where as other varieties have yields similar to previous seasons.
The AMIA team will add to these regional descriptions as more information becomes available.
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Crop Flow
Last week’s dispatched tray volumes from Darwin, Katherine and Bowen: 544,652 trays.
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Mango Industry Standards
Our industry standards for dry matter and brix for key varieties are in the table below.
| Variety |
Dry Matter |
Brix |
| KP |
15% |
14° |
| Calypso |
15% |
14° |
| Honey Gold |
15% |
14° |
| R2E2 |
13% |
12° |
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Weekly Wholesale Prices
The following prices offer a snapshot of the main varieties of mangoes being sold in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide markets over the past week. The prices below are based on a standard tray*. To view the complete price data for last week, or view daily prices, please click here.
*7kg
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Mango Memories
Celebrating the last days of school, and the anticipation of a long summer holiday with delicious, juicy, sweet mangoes from Fox-alicious, in Katherine. It’s all smiles and happy days for these Sydney school girls from Year 11, Loreto Normanhurst... a great mango memory in the making!
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Marketing
PR
More mango recipes continue to be spotted in the nation's magazines and newspapers, with Gluten-Free Life magazine publishing an article featuring two of our own recipes! Eat Well magazine also published a mango sorbet recipe, whilst The Australian Women's Weekly printed recipes for Mum's Summer Trifle, Quick Mango Ice-cream and Barbecued Rock Lobster with Mango Salsa.
Online, Body & Soul shared our own recipe for Mango Eaton Mess, and Women's Fitness published a recipe for Thai Beef Noodle Salad with Mango. On the airwaves, we heard Nova discuss the 'proper' way to slice mangoes. Forecasts were broadcast on WIN News in six regions around Queensland throughout the week.
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Gluten-Free Life Magazine: Mango Feature
This week, a journalist from Delicious magazine visited Peter Marks of Ballongilly Farm on his farm in Katherine, NT, where he learnt about innovation in the mango industry including everything from objective quality testing and near-infrared scanning technology to newer mango varieties and current harvesting techniques.
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We're also looking ahead to the annual Mango Mess-tival that takes place at Sydney's Bondi Beach on Sunday! Keep your eyes out on Channel 9's Today Show throughout Sunday morning for live weather crosses from the mango-eating competitions, smoothie bicycle, mango relay races, mango flower carving demonstrations, and the social media photo booth! There will also be some digital influencers in attendance, so you can expect some updates on Instagram in the following days.
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SOCIAL
The first 'Mango Madness' competition of the year kicked off on the Aussie Mangoes Facebook page, which has seen 651 mango-lovers comment with the hashtag #mangomadness in the hopes of winning a tray of mangoes! In just one hour, the post reached over 12,000 people, which is a strong indication for more engagement on competition posts in coming months!
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Visit Aussie Mangoes on Facebook or Instagram for more.
For more information, please contact Elisa King, Marketing Manager at Horticulture Innovation Australia on: (02) 8295 2332 or elisa.king@horticulture.com.au.
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