Grape Industry Analysis for Investment and Redevelopment

3.2 Source of crop production and crop prices data
Wine grapes
Wine grape production and price data was sourced from public domain data:
Murray Valley Winegrape Utilisation Survey 1997 (Agriculture Victoria, 1997)
Murray Valley Winegrape Utilisation Survey 2003 (Department of Primary Industries,
2003),
Australian Regional Wine Grape Crush Survey Murray Darling, Swan Hill 2006
(Department of Primary Industries, 2006),
Wine Grape Crush Survey Murray Darling / Swan Hill 2009 (Department of Primary
Industries, 2009)
Wine Grape Crush Report Murray Darling Swan Hill 2014 (Hickey & Hengsen, 2014)
Dried grapes
Dried grape production and price data was sourced from Sunbeam Foods, and from Horticulture
Australia via Dried Fruits Australia.
Table grapes
Table grape production was estimated based on an assumption of 1,200 vines per hectare
yielding an average of 2 boxes per vine in full production (i.e. 2,400 boxes per hectare or 970
boxes per acre).
Table grape prices were sourced from Ausmarket Consultants (2014) based on average prices
($/box):
for each grape variety
for grapes sourced from the Murray Valley (Victoria and NSW)
for grapes sent to Sydney and Melbourne markets in the months January to April
inclusive, for the years 1997, 2003, 2006, 2009 and 2014
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