{"id":224094,"date":"2018-11-27T21:05:59","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T11:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=224094"},"modified":"2020-07-25T14:35:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T04:35:45","slug":"growing-macadamias-isnt-peanuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2018\/11\/27\/growing-macadamias-isnt-peanuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Macadamias Isn’t Peanuts!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sonie Crumpton … making a big investment in a potentially lucrative new crop in the South Burnett<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

November 28, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

Work on developing the South Burnett’s first commercial macadamia plantation began on Monday with the first of 12,000 young trees being planted in a Kingaroy paddock.<\/p>\n

Sonie Crumpton, better known for peanuts and duboisia, is hoping this macadamia trial will be worth the wait – and the considerable investment in time and money.<\/p>\n

Consultant Kim Wilson, from Eureka Macadamia Management in Lismore, has been working with Sonie on the project.<\/p>\n

He said the trees were expected to produce their first commercial crop in 2022.<\/p>\n

The macadamias have spent two years growing in a nursery in northern NSW before being transferred into a 100 acre paddock on the north side of Kingaroy.<\/p>\n

Three main varieties are being tested – 741, 842 and A203 – which are the most popular varieties currently being grown in the Bundaberg area.<\/p>\n

But four recently released varieties will also be grown in lots of 300 to test their suitability for South Burnett conditions. These varieties – P, G, J and MCT1 – have the potential of producing a greater kernel-to-shell ratio which could be potentially more profitable for growers.<\/p>\n

All the trees will be drip-irrigated from a natural spring on the property.<\/p>\n

Kim said the South Burnett could become a macadamia-growing area, although the availability of water would always be an issue in some areas and they could not be grown on low-lying land which was subject to frosts.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The trees flower in August-September, before setting nuts which develop during November-December.<\/p>\n

The nuts usually reach maturity in late January or mid-February when they fall naturally to the ground.<\/p>\n

They are then gathered up by special machinery.<\/p>\n

The trees are being being planted 3.7m apart in nine metre GPS-marked rows which allow plenty of room for the mature trees to develop.<\/p>\n

At the moment, they are surrounded by typical Kingaroy red dirt but this will change as grass will be grown between the rows.<\/p>\n

Kim said the major jobs as the trees continue to mature will be weed control, mowing and some hand pruning and fertilizing.<\/p>\n

There was a buzz of activity in the paddock on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

One tractor was raking the soil to break up clods while the planter followed a bit later, scraping up the raised beds for the young trees to be deposited within.<\/p>\n

Workers were then tending to each tree before a water truck came along to immediately irrigate around each new plant.<\/p>\n

Sonie said it was an exciting project but admitted it was a big investment with potentially no return for seven years.<\/p>\n

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Workers place a young tree in the hole and bed created by the planting machinery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Consultant Kim Wilson, from Lismore, has been working with Sonie on the macadamia trial<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The rows begin to take shape on Monday in a paddock just outside Kingaroy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The young trees are watered in as soon as possible after planting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Some of the 12,000 young trees awaiting their new home in Kingaroy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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