Stanthorpe · Granite Belt · Queensland
Orchard Services provides agronomic advice, research & development and consulting services to the horticultural industry — on farms around Stanthorpe and in trial blocks from the Granite Belt to the tropics.
Est. 1988 GLP accredited Apples to sugar cane
Established
1988
Founded to meet the agronomic advice needs of local apple growers — still core business today.
One tick per season since 1988
40
Crops in trial, past two years
From apples and stonefruit to capsicums, mangoes and sugar cane.
Accreditation
GLP accredited trials
Good Laboratory Practice — Field Principal Investigators with AgriSolutions and Peracto.
Efficacy · residue · crop safety
What we do
Built on regular on-farm presence, credible science and nearly four decades of district know-how.
Regular on-farm monitoring of pests, crop nutrition and soil water for producers around Stanthorpe — backed by the specialty products that lift yield and quality.
GLP-accredited small-plot efficacy, residue and crop-safety trials — across forty crops in the past two years alone.
Short-term consulting and training on agronomic issues for producers and industry personnel well beyond our home district.
Agronomic advice
Good agronomy is a regular on-farm presence. Because the work needs boots on the ground week after week, our advisory service is offered to producers close to our Stanthorpe base — while short-term consulting and training reaches much further.
In-field monitoring of the pests that matter in fruit and vegetables — codling and light brown apple moth, Queensland fruit fly, thrips, aphids and mites.
Recommendations built on soil and leaf analysis, visual assessment and decades of local knowledge and experience.
Monitoring and irrigation advice for tree, vine and vegetable crops, based on MEA's advanced GBug technology.
Extenday reflective mulch, crop thinners, Regalis and other specialty products that enhance production and quality.
Research & development
Orchard Services holds GLP accreditation — Good Laboratory Practice — as Field Principal Investigators with both AgriSolutions Field Services and Peracto, conducting small-plot efficacy, residue and crop-safety trials that help develop and test new horticultural products.
Clients include all the major farm product supply companies as well as industry bodies. Trial types include:
From the field
The team
Agronomists and a former orchardist, based at Stanthorpe and on the road all week.
Senior consultant
Established the practice in 1988 after nearly ten years with the Queensland Department of Primary Industries. Bachelor of Agricultural Science (Hons) with scientific and advisory work across Australia and overseas.
0407 762 888
Horticultural technician
Joined in 2005 after nearly twenty years owning and managing a family deciduous fruit orchard — a grower's eye on every block he walks.
0407 763 166
Horticultural agronomist
Joined in 2013 from eight years as a local reseller agronomist focused on vegetable production, after earlier seasons looking after orchard clients at Elders Stanthorpe.
0459 762 887
Horticultural agronomist
Joined in 2010 with a Bachelor of Applied Science (Horticulture) from UQ Gatton and a background spanning vegetables, irrigation consulting and tree crops across South-East Queensland.
0459 762 888
Get in touch
One call to the Stanthorpe office puts nearly forty years of district agronomy to work on your block — or send an enquiry and we'll call you back.