Technical Advice and Support
Technical Advice and Support
At Hume Pack-N-Cool we have decades of combined experience in growing with people that come from various backgrounds, bringing with them vast knowledge and understanding to assist our growers. This coupled with the services, offer our growers a single solution to all their orchard needs.
We offer everything from:
- Spray programmes
- Pollination
- New variety development and management
- GLOBALGAP/ZESPRIGAP auditing
- Kiwigreen pest monitoring programme
- Crop profiling
- Soil and leaf sampling for analysis
- Nutrient and production maximisation planning
- Psa monitoring assistance
- Maturity testing
- And much more
….our Team has it covered.
We also arrange regular, relevant on-orchard field days and in-house grower discussion meetings as well as other events that aim to provide the best and most up-to-date information to our growers. Click here to see our current events.
"In September 2011 we bought our lifestyle block in Katikati for the lifestyle it offered; knowing practically nothing about the Hayward orchard that “came with” the house and garden. Our first harvest yielded about a quarter of the orchard’s potential. Through Michael’s employment in the wider Kiwifruit industry, we met some of the Hume Pack-N-Cool team. Consequently, Humes took over the management of our orchard which resulted in a harvest more than double our previous harvest.
At this time, Zespri offered a round of G3 Gold licence to Growers. In spite of our small size, the senior staff at Hume Pack-N-Cool spent time discussing with us the costs and benefits of grafting over to G3. Since then, Hume staff have helped us not only in securing licence, but also in every step of the way in the conversion process from the orchard’s tired Hayward state to a rather tidy, gold orchard. We are both so grateful to the staff for all they have done for us over the past three years and we look forward to many, many more years with Hume Pack-N-Cool."
