Flat $7m profit, but good almond crop prospects buoys Select

Andrew Marshall
Updated February 27 2018 - 5:31pm, first published 5:00pm
Select Harvests owns or leases 7487 hectares of orchards in Victoria, NSW and South Australia.
Select Harvests owns or leases 7487 hectares of orchards in Victoria, NSW and South Australia.

The world’s third largest almond growing business, Select Harvests, is blaming stiffening competition from supermarket house brands and delays in commissioning new processing infrastructure for a 17 per cent slip in its half-year profit.

Andrew Marshall

Andrew Marshall

National agribusiness writer

Andrew Marshall is the group agribusiness writer for ACM's state agricultural weeklies and websites. He is a former editor at The Land and has worked in various Rural Press group roles in Canberra, North Richmond (NSW) and Toowoomba (Qld).

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