The Board of Kiland Limited announced that tree harvesting has now commenced using Kiland's forestry operations team following the arrival of one harvester and two skidders to Kangaroo Island. Tree harvesting is the first of several steps required to convert the company's land from plantation forestry to agriculture. These three machines will work together as a single harvesting unit. Kiland has sufficient personnel to initially run the harvesting unit on a double shift. Kiland has acquired a further four machines, which will form two additional harvesting units. These units, currently awaiting quarantine clearance at Port of Melbourne, are expected to arrive and become operational in the coming weeks. Once harvested, timber will be stacked on-site for drying before biochar production trials commence later in 2022. Kiland's three stump grinding machines are scheduled to be delivered between September 2022
and January 2023. Accordingly, stump grinding operations are scheduled to commence in October 2022. Additionally, Kiland has procured a broad range of agricultural equipment which will be utilised for land preparation, pasture establishment and other operations. These include tractors, disk-rakes, cultivation equipment, sprayers, spreaders, UTVs, seeders and a service truck. Land preparation will commence immediately after stumps are cleared.