Increased Demand and Prices for Table Grapes
Delytics added huge value to our industry by transforming the raw monitoring data into easy-to-read graphics that highlighted immaturity over a four-month period of harvest. Their analytical skills gave us the tangible evidence we’d been looking for, for 10 years, to help us decide the evidence-based minimum standards needed for growers to harvest their fruit at the optimum maturity. We want our grapes to provide a consistently good eating experience, throughout the whole season.
The increased consumer demand already achieved by this project supports previous research showing that consumers will buy more fruit when they are confident it will taste good.
From an export point of view, importers will always pay a high price for good quality mature fruit. Table grapes are now the largest exporter by value of all fresh fruit out of Australia. Over the past 12 months our export sales have gone from $555 million to almost $650 million.
Jeff Scott
Chief Executive Officer
Australian Table Grape Association Inc.
Delytics Helps Zespri Predict Right Colour, Taste & Time
The decision support tools provided by Delytics have added significant value to Zespri International Limited by helping growers in multiple countries predict the right time to pick their Gold kiwifruit, according to Dr David Tanner, former General Manager of Science and Innovation at Zespri. By making it easy for growers to predict the best time to harvest, the decision support tools are helping the world’s largest marketer of kiwifruit to service markets early and maintain a consistent quality for their high value Gold crop.
Hear what Zespri has to say...
(This video refers to our Managing Director, Mark Loeffen, and the late Dr Bob Jordan, who was a valued Delytics team member for many years).
Breeding Raspberries for Optimum Taste
Delytics has helped the globally recognised James Hutton Institute research organisation create a new breeding protocol to ensure the majority of their raspberries are liked by consumers.
Citrus Australia - Oranges & Mandarins
The Delytics team’s crop quality expertise and ability to analyse complex data helped Citrus Australia identify the maturity measures for their recently adopted Australian Citrus Quality Standards. The new standards were introduced in 2014 to assist Australian citrus growers, packers, marketers and retailers deliver quality citrus that consumers will enjoy eating and want to repeat purchase. Before setting the standards, Citrus Australia had to first determine the maturity parameters for oranges and mandarins that would consistently meet consumer preferences for juiciness and taste.
Increased Demand and Prices for Australian Table Grapes
Consumer acceptability hit a five-year high for Australian table grapes with increased demand and prices - just one year after Delytics helped the industry put new maturity standards in place. Nielsen data showed an average 10.1% increase in volume over the 2019/20 season and an associated 5% increase in price. Retail monitoring over the same time period recorded the highest consumer acceptability in five years with an overall consumer acceptability of 79%. This was a 20 percentage point increase from the 2016/17 season, the year before the project started.
NZ Citrus Growers Inc. - Navel Oranges
A new fruit quality maturity standard recommended by Delytics has helped boost the consumer acceptability of New Zealand navel oranges from 62% to 93% in just one season.
Harvest Fresh Fruits - Calypso Mango
In September 2011 Harvest Fresh Fruits Pty Ltd (previously trading as Oolloo Farm Management) adopted a precursor of the Delytics® Crop Quality Advisor to optimise the production of B74 mangoes, marketed under the Calypso® brand name in Australia. This system is providing ongoing benefits for Australian mangoes.