PRIME orchards
Working with you to achieve a good return, healthy trees and a future plan for orchard development and maximizing yield.
Project Expectations
Project Models
Project Development
Crop Expectation
Packing & Marketing
Harvest Management
Optimal Fertilisation
Canopy Management
Labour Costs
Equipment Utilisation
Disease Management
Water Needs and Licensing
Irrigation
Design
Tree Yields and Projections
Budget Estimates
Operating Cost Management
Agribusiness Direction
Agronomy Advice
About
Our Management
The management and consultants at Prime Orchards together with our support staff are experienced and long time agribusiness managers, advisors and employees. The consultants are leaders in their field of expertise, be it agronomy, pruning, or hydraulic irrigation specialists, with many of these experts recognized around the industry as leaders in their field.
Leading the management team is Jim Carney, who is a longtime avocado orchardist, since he and his wife Lois established Settlers Plantation avocado, custard apple and kiwi fruit orchards in Baldivis, Western Australia in 1984. Jim managed the Western Australia orchards through the 80’s growing avocados on 50 acres. Additionally, Jim consulted for other growers and did seasonal management as a viticulturist for a nearby commercial vineyard.
Jim operated an arboreal consulting and tree moving
business with a truck mounted tree spade, moving hundreds of citrus,
avocado, palms and other trees for local shires, orchardists and
others. Jim was active on the board of the Western Australia Avocado
Growers Association, barracking for higher quality and better handling
of avocados and was Vice President the late 80's.
Over the years, he has founded and operated three packing sheds in
addition to
the five commercial orchards he has owned.
Today, Jim grows avocados on 164 acre property in the
Childers area, with 9,500 avocado trees. He also owns and
operates avocado orchards at Farnsfield and Kumbia as well as involved
in sugar cane, peanuts, corn and cattle on over 700 acres of farms and
when finished planting around 30,000 avocado trees. Jim has
consulted for
small growers and large agribusiness companies and consortiums
assisting orchardist to
achieve maximum yields and healthy trees with a plan for the future.
Jim is also the managing director of SuperPak Group Pty Ltd in Childers, with the 2nd largest avocado packing operation in Australia. This is a new modern facility with extensive labour saving measures and world recognized accreditation to handle avocados and other fruits, at substantial savings to growers over competing packing facilities. For more information please visit www.superpak.net.au
Employment:
We are taking expressions of interest from qualified leading hands and managers for positions which are scheduled to start in September for work in the Childers area. If interested and available, please email a note to us at address below and we will contact you with more details soon. An Employment Application is also available for download if requested to fill out for our consideration.
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