Stephen Lewis, Part time macadamia nut grower Case Study

Orchard consists of 1 Hectare (2.5 Acres)  160 trees of Mainly Beaumont with a few Own Choice variety as cross pollinators, Harvesting just over 4 tonne of nuts in husk. Up until we purchased one of your machines we had to sell our entire crop De-husked at 2800kg to a local processor for $3.20 per kg  (NIS) Nuts in Shell, giving us an annual return of only $8,960.00 With the purchase of your V-Twin Dehusker and Twin Cracker we are now in a position to fully process our own crop and retail this to local food processing companies, bakeries and the remainder to farmers markets at an average of $35.00 per kg now giving us a return of $42,000.00 per annum for an expenditure of under $10,000 we were able to pay for the equipment several times over within the first year.