Kootingal Pecan Company

12/02/2026

Kootingal pecan has a second hand (4 years old) Woodland mills wood chipper for sale. Works on a small tractor pto, will chip small logs 150mm wide and self drive means once loaded branch is pulled through unaided.

Chips are great for decomposing on orchard floor or bagging and selling for those who like to produce smoked goods including pecans....

Available for collection from Kootingal Pecan. Contact for price.

15/08/2025

Interested in regen Ag and improving pecan yields have a listen to this podcast.

Troy Swift started farming at age 42, and has achieved incredible results using regenerative practices in his Texas pecan grove: increasing yields in certain varieties by up to 6X, while cutting nitrogen inputs by 97%, reducing insecticides, and eliminating herbicides.  Troy is a first-generation f...

19/07/2024

Here is a recent article about Kootingal Pecans published by Baking business. Enjoy, always looking to support the baking industry with good quality organic pecan from a regenerative agriculture orchard.

Considered a foraged delicacy in the 19th century, pecans have grown in both popularity and commercially in the intervening years. Baking Business sat down with Kootingal Pecan Company owner Mark […]

07/07/2024

Kootingal Pecan is the first Pecan grower ( and only known grower as at July 2024) to be certified for organic regenerative agriculture (interim) pecan production.

We are committed to enriching and sustaining our soil health, the environment and the health of our pecan orchard and the quality of our pecans produced each year.

07/07/2024

Kootingal Pecan Company is offering pecan growers not only a third party cracking and packing service but is also offering growers to "rent the shed" .
Contact us if you are interested in renting the shed to crack and value add to your pecan harvest reaping the financial benefit beyond nut in shell. Once cracked you use the clean room to;

pack and vacuum seal pecans
create pecan oil
dry roast pecans
make pecan butter ( smooth or crunchy)
Smoke your pecans
create your range of savoury and sweet pecans on a commercial scale.
Packing materials from bags to boxes, can also be arranged, labour is not supplied under the rent the shed option.
Contact Kootingal Pecan Company for the day and weekly rates of hire. Limited weeks available each season.

07/06/2024

Today Kootingal Pecan saw the media relaease announcing that our organic pecans had been selected as one of the finalists in the Delicious produce awards for 2024.

We appreciate the reviews and work of all the judges involved in selecting finalists. Thank you again.

31/05/2024

Regenerative farming practices and certification give the consumer, whether in hospitality, retail or purchasing direct more confidence in the food they are consuming and the benefits beyond taste and look.

Kootingal Pecan continues along the path to full certification from Southern Cross certified ( https://www.sxcertified.com.au/ ) of growing pecan nuts and supplying pecan oil that meets the audited requirements to be providing organic pecan from a orchard that is certified as complying with regenerative agriculture practices.

To understand why, take a few minutes to read this article below.

How does the soil we grow our vegetables in, affects the health of our gut? And does a healthy soil gives crops a better quality and taste? These are some of the questions Soil ecologist Emilia Hannula and a big consortium will work on. With an NWO-KIC grant of 1.8 million, CML, IBL, FGGA, the LUMC,...

21/05/2024

Cockatoos and Correllas, a sub genus of Cockatoos are a pest for the pecan grower.

At Kootingal pecan we have used drones, gas guns, high speed polaris chases etc to keep the birds of the trees and out of the orchard, all with minimal success in the last 2 seasons.

Now our 3rd harvest, a change in tactics, we fed the birds some 400 metres from the orchard with success. These birds, who can live for up to 60 years, are lazy. We know feed them, twice a day on the ground, all the rejected nuts and those left off from the previous year un-cracked, they are not fussy!

Birds are out of the orchard, a significant saving in lost pecans and we serve them twice a day. Birds are happy, pecan grower is happy, win, win, we think a long term solution. Other growers who have observed this are amazed as to how you can train your Cockatoo.

Here is a video.