Orchards built to last, delivering returns sooner

Whether you’re a landowner looking to create a top-quartile performing asset or an orchardist looking for an industry-leading partner, the team at Southern Cross Horticulture is ready to help you create a world-class orchard development.

We consult with you to understand your needs

By partnering closely with you, we make the most of your land. Aligning our expertise with your goals, together, we cultivate success from the ground up. We’re committed to building and managing a high-quality asset with and for you, treating your orchard like it’s our own – we build it as if we are going to run it one day.

Assessing the suitability of your land for a productive kiwifruit orchard

Our decades of experience means we have a a deep understanding of what types of land are suitable for top-quartile orchards—factoring in size and shape, climate, soil, drainage, fertility, and other characteristics. Managing the operating and financial implications of these is a crucial step to maximising productivity and your return on investment.

Creating lasting assets with the world's fastest orchard returns

We’re one of the country’s most successful orchard developers and producers of SunGold, and also the only fully-integrated kiwifruit development business in New Zealand. Following decades of hard work and success, our proven systems and processes are now available to you. In recent years, we’ve expanded our own operations to partner with like-minded orchardists and landowners. Together, we’re creating quality orchard assets that deliver industry-leading returns.

Delivering higher gate returns faster

At Southern Cross Horticulture, we’re highly experienced orchard developers with a proven track record for producing high-yield crops faster. Our orchards consistently produce higher yields and faster time to cash-flow than the industry average.

A complete end-to-end solution

Our unique ‘end-to-end’ business model lets us manage every aspect of orchard development and production. From selecting and procuring bare land, to constructing and establishing an orchard, to harvesting of the fruit, we do it all. We also wrap around all the support services required to give us high levels of quality control

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Land selection

Planning & Design

Orchard construction

Nursery

Establishment

Management

Trade secrets built up over generations

We've spent decades developing our trade secrets and industry-leading innovations. It’s how we create quality orchard assets – without compromise – that stand the test of time. Because our orchards are well-made, you can bank on lower running costs over the long-term too.