The 2024 Murray Darling-Swan Hill grape crush was up a whopping 38 per cent on the previous year at 282,338 tonnes.

And while Murray Valley Winegrowers chief executive Paul Derrico said that total was still 14 per cent below the local industry’s five-year average of 326,903 tonnes, he said the crush had still delivered a massive financial injection across the region.

Mr Derrico said the value ...