date:May 05, 2014
f contract packing, and that's included quite a lot of lemons, and lemons come out of the mandarin season, so it extends the packing process.
The co-op expects to pack 35,000 bins this year, which is a bit down.
Allen Jenkin exports mandarins from his 75,000 trees near Mundubbera to Indonesia, Thailand and China for seven months of the year.
He says the long dry has lowered his fruit size but raised sugar and acid levels.
However, his biggest problem has been poor fruit colour, forcing him t