Entries for Dried Fruits Australia’s 2025 Top Crop Awards are now open.
The awards highlight the industry’s best producing dried grape businesses, rewarding those that produce the highest value crop per hectare, based on their final yields, grades and any deductions and publicly-known base level pricing.
The individual awards will be for each major variety, including Sunglo, Sunmuscat, currant, Selma Pete, Sugra 39, and sultana (and other sultana types).
Each variety winner will receive a $250 Mildura City Heart gift card, while the overall winner will receive a $500 Mildura City Heart gift card.
All participating entries must:
• Include all the producing patches in their business regardless of age of planting for each variety entered.
• Be a minimum combined total of 1 hectare for each variety entered.
• Provide documented evidence of tonnes delivered, grades and deductions received, from the relevant processors.
• Be fruit that is 4 crown brown or better in grading.
• Be a Dried Fruits Australia member.
Enter by providing final yields, grades and deductions to projects@driedfruitsaustralia.org.au by Friday 23 May.
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