tfs get busy at kingston rest - beyond carbon

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About 60 kilometres south of Kununurra sits what's thought to be the largest pressurised irrigation instalment in Australia.

It's nothing to do with the Ord Irrigation Scheme, it's a project known as Kingston Rest.

The Property was bought by Tropical Forestry Services (TFS) in 2007; the 6600 hectare property backs onto the Dunham River and is home to one of the largest privately managed dams in Australia.

The property used to be the Kimberley's largest producer of hay and in its last year of production made 16,000 large bales from roughly 320 hectares of irrigated land.

But late last year, TFS set out to change the hay farm into a world class Indian sandalwood plantation and they've been busy revitalising the property.

Dan Raymond from TFS says it's pretty exciting to finally get planting underway.

"Today is the first day of planting out here so I guess we've been working to this for nearly two and a half, three years."

"The first trees went in today planted by Matt, myself and some of the other staff and now we've got the crews out rolling so it's pretty exciting stuff for us."

Matt Barnes is the head of development for TFS he says the first round of planting should take about 3 weeks.

"On the first day today we'll probably only get about ten hectares done. We'll try and knock out about 350 - 360 hectares in this first round which should take us about three to three and a half weeks to complete."

Dan Raymond is expecting big things from Kingston Rest; he feels it could be the stand out property for TFS.

"Only time will tell but we think we've got everything right, we've done all the work that we needed to do to make sure that we come up with the best result and I think this will be the Rolls Royce in our plantations."



http://www.abc.net.au/rural/wa/content/2010/04/s2879220.htm?site=tropic