In recent years, TheMacadamia Association released the latest macadamiayield forecast in 2017, due to bad weather hitting the production, the yield ofmacadamiais expectedto47000 tons in 2017. (water content 10%)

A tropical storm in March brought heavy rains and floods, and rainfall in the north coast in June historically caused the harvest to break for some time and led to crop losses in the affected areas.

The output of 47000 tons is predicted to decrease , compared with the estimated 52000 tons at the beginning of the production season, while the output of the bumper harvest in 2016 is 52000 tons (10% of water content)

In this short supply macadamia market, The news seems to add weights to the sellers.