39 YEARS OF SUSTAINABLE, HIGH-PERFORMING ORCHARD MANAGEMENT

For 40 years, Macadamia Farm Management has partnered with growers and investors to build high-performing orchards and reliable pathways to global markets. Our end-to-end management model spans orchard establishment, agronomy, harvesting, processing and asset performance — grounded in practical expertise, disciplined systems and continuous innovation.

The Path to Growing Greatness

From modest beginnings in the late 1980s, Macadamia Farm Management has grown alongside the Australian macadamia industry. What started as a small operation managing around 500 hectares has become a trusted partner to growers and investors across Queensland’s major macadamia regions.

Today, we manage more than 5,000 hectares across over 50 orchards, supported by more than 200 team members. Our approach is practical and long-term — grounded in disciplined agronomy, reliable operations, and steady improvement, season after season.

We manage every orchard as a long-term asset. Decisions are guided by field experience, data from the orchard, and close collaboration with owners and the people working on the ground. This integrated approach supports productive orchards, resilient systems, and consistent outcomes over time.

Vision

To be the global leader in sustainable macadamia farming

Mission

Mission

To deliver excellence in all that we do

Values

Integrity, Respect , Accountability, Continuous Improvement

PROCESSING PARTNER

Australian Premium Macadamias (APM) is grower-founded — farmers working with farmers.
Our partnership connects orchard performance with premium processing and global markets.

Sustainability: Aligning Agriculture with Nature

Because our trees remain in the same location for 20 to 30 years, we implement seasonal initiatives aimed at achieving our long-term goal of aligning commercial agriculture with nature.
We have restored several deteriorated orchards through intensive soil rejuvenation projects to ensure longevity and continued high-quality yields. These efforts include:

  1. Restoring natural habitats surrounding our orchards.
  2. Implementing biological pest and weed control to maintain a balanced ecosystem.
  3. Improving soil health by increasing organic matter and carbon levels to enhance microbial activity.
  4. Enhancing soil structure and water retention through the planting of diverse cover crops.

Our sustainability efforts extend beyond our orchards. As we support growers in all aspects of macadamia farming, we also implement energy-efficient solutions at our processing facilities, alternating between electricity and passive solar drying systems to optimise efficiency and reduce environmental impact.
All our latest sustainability and research initiatives are showcased on our social media platforms, keeping our community informed and engaged.

Our Footprint

Nestled along the East Coast of Queensland, Australia—the birthplace of the macadamia—our growing sites are perfectly positioned for optimal cultivation. With rich soils, a favourable climate, and decades of agricultural expertise, our operations thrive in the very region where this prized crop originated.

Bundaberg is located about 400 kilometres north of Brisbane and is not only ranked as the city with the most consistent climate, being humid and subtropical but it is also well-known for its healthy soils and fair water availability. These qualities make Bundaberg the ideal location to grow large volumes of high-quality Macadamias. Since its establishment in the late 1800s, the agricultural landscape of Bundaberg has increased so tremendously that it is believed to have the capacity to feed the entire Australian population.

This city contributes a significant portion to the Australian agricultural industry, producing crops that range from Tomatoes to Citrus and everything in between. More significantly, Bundaberg also produces around 76% of Queensland’s Macadamias and 40% of the entire Australian production, making it the largest Macadamia growing region in the country.

When Macadamia Farm Management was founded in 1987, our operations consisted of about 12 orchards, translating to around 480 hectares, which were largely based in Bundaberg. We have since increased our footprint quite significantly.

Today, most of our mature orchards are based in Bundaberg and its surrounding regions, equating to thousands of hectares, and we are actively developing new orchards in these regions.

In 2015 we extended our operations to include Maryborough as part of our Macadamia growing regions and we have since developed 650 hectares or around 7 properties here. We employ a team dedicated to the Maryborough developments ranging from experienced production managers to horticultural experts.

Maryborough has seen significant orchard development activity, with more sugar cane farms being converted. Although most of our Macadamia orchards in Maryborough are still young, a significant number of them are now coming into full production, with output increasing  to over 7,000 tons. This creates the ideal opportunity for us to take hands with established local businesses to develop the economy and uplift the local community.

Macadamia Farm Management was initially established with the vision to develop and manage Macadamia orchards for growers in a manner that would ensure consistent, above-average yields of exceptional quality. Since then, we have diversified our capabilities to become a trusted farm managing enterprise to both local and international investors and we have also been able to form joint ventures with a variety of role players in the Macadamia industry. They specialise in all aspects of the growth and the production of Macadamias, ranging from machinery – and asset holding companies, to state-of-the-art sorting facilities.

The goodwill we have established over the years and our partnerships with various entities in the agricultural industry, enable us to provide our investors with turnkey solutions, thereby allowing them to grow world-class businesses that offer them a long-term secure market position.

In addition to managing the orchards and land development operations for our investors, we are also appointed to manage several agricultural asset-holding entities that own machinery and other agricultural inputs to service our investors. The operational costs of these entities are shared between our investors based on a hectares planted ratio. This enables even our smallest growers to have access to ground-breaking technology, without needing to break the bank for asset acquisition – and maintenance costs. These entities also contract assets out to other independent agricultural operations, when not used or required by our investors. This further reduces the inputs that may be required by investors, as they are able to maintain their own operational – and asset acquisition costs by utilising income derived from servicing independent clients.

To be fully capable of providing our clients with all the services it takes to manage and grow a Macadamia investment, we have fostered partnerships with Macadamia transportation and processing entities. This allows our investors’ harvested nuts to be collected from the orchard to be sorted and processed for the local and export markets. These entities, Bundy Skip Bins and BundySort, are both managed by Macadamia Farm Management, meaning that we have the opportunity to set the bar for quality and service delivery.

BundySort was established when one of the asset-holding entities managed by Macadamia Farm Management, Bundaberg Macadamias, joined forces with a well-known local giant, Bundy Sugar, to form a state-of-the-art processing facility that provides drying and sorting services to both investors and the greater local Macadamia growing community.

We are greatly dependent on our support network and, with the rapid expansion of our operations, new joint ventures and partnering opportunities arise every season. We believe that much like sustainable agricultural practices will ensure the continued yield and quality from our orchards, our alliances with like-minded entities and individuals, allow us to share expertise and tackle industry challenges, which in turn will enable us to maintain our success.

Est. 1987

Still the number one choice for the meticulous management of macadamia orchards