date:May 05, 2014
outside Gayndah, expects his harvest will be down about 30 per cent.
The main factor is we had a very late frost in September. Half the trees were already flowering, so it's basically cooked quite a lot of flower.
Down the road, mandarin grower Ken Roth lost 6,000 of his 20,000 trees in the flood, and expects to pick about half his normal rate this season - only 1,300 half-tonne bins.
He says the lower volumes mean growers are fetching good prices, up an extra $10 per box.
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