Grape Industry Analysis for Investment and Redevelopment

wholesale market price ($/kg)
7.4 Table grape prices 1997 to 2014
Wholesale prices ($/kg) paid for table grapes sent into the Melbourne and Sydney wholesale
markets between January and April (inclusive) from 1997 to 2014 were sourced from Ausmarket
Consultants.
The data provided by Ausmarket Consultants represented averages and highest and lowest prices
per month by variety. SunRISE Mapping are unable to further calculate a weighted average,
however the average monthly prices already take the volume of delivery at each price into
consideration, by variety.
The average prices returned to growers from the wholesale markets increased overall by $ 0.20
between 1997 and 2014. The greatest price increase ($0.79) was for black grapes. The price of
white grapes between 1997 and 2014 fell by $0.18.
Figure 48:
Average wholesale price ($ per kilogram) for table grapes delivered into Melbourne and
Sydney markets 1997 to 2014
$1.70
$1.60
$1.50
$1.40
$1.30
$1.20
$1.10
$1.00
$0.90
$0.80
1997 2003 2006 2009 2014
Table grapes 1997 2003 2006 2009 2014
Change ($)
1997-2014
White $ 1.06 $ 1.14 $ 1.02 $ 0.84 $ 0.88 - $ 0.18
Red $ 1.06 $ 1.10 $ 1.31 $ 1.52 $ 1.39 + $ 0.32
Black $ 0.89 $ 1.11 $ 1.27 $ 1.40 $ 1.68 + $ 0.79
Average price $/kg $ 1.03 $ 1.11 $ 1.20 $ 1.32 $ 1.23 + $ 0.20
Black
Red
White
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