Thread: Banana prices up already!

You monkeys that love your banannas are in for a tough time!!!!
When the last cyclone wiped out Queenslands bannana barrons crops there was still a supply from WA via Carnarvon.
People are forgetting they had 2 floods in Carnarvon recently whilst QLD was drowning.
There is no back up Banannas in WA this time around,Carnarvon was quietly wiped out whilst the rest of the country was watching QLDs problems.
Andrew

Won't be singing for a while...

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last time we had the banana crisis and they were over $10kg, we went for a ski trip to NZ, nana's over there were just over $1 a kg, i'd never eaten so many banana's in 9 days


oh and washed down with beer

Same over here $2-99 on Wednesday, $6-98 on Friday.
Wont be buying narnies for a while.

i think people will survive okay with out bananas

We were talking to the owner of a Vietnamese restaurant the other day and he told us that ginger had gone from $60 to $300 per box in a matter of few days. There are all sorts of fruit & veg in short supply.

Erich

i worked for a farm at mission beach and when they have a cyclone like yasi that pushes all the trees over they userly get out there a day later and gather as many bunches as possible,,being the time of the year there would have been quite a lot of bunches almost ready to go,,because the they are picked green then packed and sent to suppliers they dont get to the shops till a month later so there should be no change felt straight away,,if every farm gets out and grabs there fallen bunches there should even be a influx as these farm dont have insurance and need to save every bunch they can,,,its the supermarkets again trying to rip everybody off as the price shouldnt change for a month or two

Originally Posted by mickashay

i worked for a farm at mission beach and when they have a cyclone like yasi that pushes all the trees over they userly get out there a day later and gather as many bunches as possible,,being the time of the year there would have been quite a lot of bunches almost ready to go,,because the they are picked green then packed and sent to suppliers they dont get to the shops till a month later so there should be no change felt straight away,,if every farm gets out and grabs there fallen bunches there should even be a influx as these farm dont have insurance and need to save every bunch they can,,,its the supermarkets again trying to rip everybody off as the price shouldnt change for a month or two

Question is whether a significant quantity can be salvaged, what with closed roads, no power etc. I imagine they have to get into controlled atmosphere storage within a day or two? But as you point out, there should not be a shortage - yet!

John