Table grape prices have gone through the roof just as harvest begins but for some growers it is not enough to buffer the losses of a tough season.

Dom Condo has 49ha of table grapes in the plantations and he estimated his crop could be as much as 80 per cent down on an average season.

Mr Condo said last year he picked 12,000 crates of the flame seedless variety and this year he was only looking at 2000.

“A combination of everything – the flood, the locusts, mildew, the cluster caterpillar, it’s been a tough year.”

He said the good price would not compensate for the losses but he was still looking forward to next year.

“We are doing the same program as we normally would, we are acting as if there is a full crop there in order to protect next year’s harvest.”

Some growers were not as unlucky as Mr Condo, despite suffering some losses.

Darryl and Sheonagh Butcher from Sun Sweet Plantations estimated their yield loss at about 10 per cent.

“Our crop is not as good as a good year, we are probably slightly below average,” Mr Butcher said.

Sun Sweet lost most of last year’s crop to the flood and 50 per cent of the crop to locusts in February, according to Mr Butcher.

Last year a box of the red globe variety sold for $30 per box and this year sold same variety for $145, he said.