Family owned and operated Piñata Farms Pty Ltd started with a single pineapple farm in Queensland in the 1960s. Since then we’ve found new growing regions and today our farms are spread around Australia. We want top quality, so we continue to choose the best pineapple, mango, strawberry and specialty berry varieties to produce fresh, flavoursome fruit for Aussie tables all year 'round. Our family farming business is based at Wamuran on the Sunshine Coast in south-east Queensland, in the heart of pineapple country. We’ve been growing pineapples here since founder Geoff Scurr started producing the fruit in the 1960s. With some 1,010 hectares under cultivation around Australia producing three fruit crops, you’ll find our fruit in-store every day of the year. Geoff’s sons, Gavin and Stephen Scurr, and their children grew up planting, picking and packing pineapples on the family farm. Today, our home farm – including pineapple and strawberry fields, packing shed and headquarters – is still in the original district. Gavin and Stephen now operate Piñata Farms from Wamuran, near Brisbane, and Mareeba in Queensland’s far north, where we pioneered large-scale pineapple production in the 1990s. Piñata Farms is now Australia’s largest pineapple producer and the only one to supply fresh pineapples all year. We’re proud to be among Australia’s leading producers of summer and winter strawberries. We also hold the rights to grow specialty Honey Gold mangoes – an Australian favourite – between November and March. We also partner LaManna Premier Group to grow bananas for joint venture company, Darwin Fruit Farms in the Darwin region and, with joint venture partner, BerryWorld Group, produce specialty berries for BerryWorld Australia. Our fruit is grown on our own farms, and farms owned by some 30 third-party family growers spread over five states. They produce pineapples and mangoes under contract for us, and are as dedicated to quality as we are. Continuing the tradition, various members of the Scurr family work throughout the business alongside more than 70 full-time employees and up to 500 seasonal workers. FARMING PROFESSIONALS Our pineapple breeding program, run in partnership with Queensland’s Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, investigates the commercial potential of up to 20,000 new varieties each year. Our mango breeding program in South Africa has two prospective varieties growing on some 200 trees. At any one time, we have half a dozen winter strawberry varieties under trial at Wamuran and three summer varieties at Stanthorpe. Piñata Farms is a member of peak business and horticultural bodies including Growcom, Northern Territory Mango Industry Association, Queensland Strawberries, Strawberries Australia and the Pineapple Industry Advisory Committee. Gavin Scurr is a board member and former chairman of the Australian Mango Industry Association (AMIA) and is on the board of the NT Farmers Association.
