Services
Orchard Topworking Service
Topworking can serve many valuable purposes in your orchard, including:
- Inclusion of pollination varieties in fruiting orchards to maximise fruit-set,
- Reworking whole orchards to a new variety to better suit management or fruit prices, and
- Eliminating off-type trees dispersed through orchards to allow easier farm management.
Up until recently, orchard topworking has been a daunting prospect, with single-digit percentage success rates. When looking to change crops by earlier traditional means, a grower is burdened with 3 years to orchard establishment and 10 years in recuperating costs.
Anderson AE&C offers a world-class procedure for the grafting of new varieties onto existing, established orchard trees – with a proven 96% success rate at the graft union, leading to healthy tree development. When opting for the topworking approach in your orchard, the project cost is typically only 20-30% that of new orchard setup. Further, the time investment is significantly reduced – the established root systems utilised will allow for new cropping the next year, and the tree canopy and bearing potential is maximised as soon as possible.
At Anderson AE&C, we are dedicated to your growth in the industry. One of the key factors for maintaining successful graft establishment in the orchard is the aftercare. Following the topwork, we remain committed to helping you grow. Follow-up consultations, market analysis and P&L (profit and loss) forecasts are available to go hand-in-hand with your updated orchard, to ensure you are best equipped for your next steps and beyond.
Orchard Consultancy Service
Especially with the current fruit prices, growers must maximise their crop yield – and Anderson AE&C can provide you with the solutions to engineer your orchard ensuring optimal quantity and quality fruit production. Our consultancy services provide expertise at every step of your journey.
Please fill out the contact form on our website, or give us a call, for a free initial consultation in which we work together to determine which solutions best fit your unique needs. From this discussion, we will coordinate a face-to-face meeting with your consultant to work toward such outcomes as:
- Agricultural engineering report of Best Next Steps,
- Leaf, soil and water analysis, and
- P&L (profit and loss) forecast of your orchard.
Striving to maximise your orchard profitability, our farm consultancy plans are tailored to your unique needs. A single, all-inclusive fee covers a wide range of services, including:
- Financial management (a review of all your business finances, and the preparation of a budget with recommendations),
- Fertiliser recommendations and practical implementation,
- Enterprise analysis (analyzing and comparing the profitability of the various farm enterprises),
- Conducting of an audit (audit farm performance against industry standards), and
- Preparation of reports (mid-year and end-of-season reports, as required).
Every business is different, and tailoring your consultancy plan can lead to additional points of management assistance, including:
- Structuring & restructuring,
- Start-up assistance,
- Labour recruitment,
- Employee troubleshooting,
- Business planning,
- Strategic risk management,
- Industry introductions, and
- Relationship building.
Orchard Design Service
When it comes to Orchard Design, Anderson AE&C offers an extensive range of services from small-scale maintenance and irrigation analysis, to crop management and large farm solutions. We work with you to grow your investments with our tailored knowledge and industry connections.
We believe we are the best in the industry at our services targeted at the most critical time of your project timeline – from the purchasing of suitable land to the early management of trees after planting. Our service can include assistance in selecting suitable farm sites (soil/water testing and analysis), orchard layout (tree spacing and ridge heights), capital infrastructure (dams, pumps and irrigation), planting expertise and early/ongoing tree management after planting.
We can assist in all orchard operations from nursery plant sourcing to planting, tree upkeep to picking, and through to marketing. Typical services include:
- Orchard design,
- Irrigation design,
- Variety selection,
- Material procurement,
- Labour training,
- Process documentation,
- Machinery upkeep schedules,
- Agronomist communication,
- Nutrient application assistance,
- Orchard scheduling,
- Freshcare accreditation representation,
- Employee counseling,
- Machinery and plant health troubleshooting,
- Sales and marketing assistance, and
- Networking and introductions in the industry.
Working hand-in-hand, we can develop huge potential for you to have a profitable and worthwhile endeavor in the agricultural industry!
