Our Services

We specialise in seasonal labour solutions across primary industry and around New Zealand

Good for people, good for business

At SSCO, we provide people-first seasonal labour solutions for New Zealand’s horticulture, agriculture, and viticulture industries. Across seasonal orchard and vineyard crews to nurseries and farms, we help our members hit productivity and quality targets while protecting the wellbeing of the people who make it possible.

We specialise in providing seasonal teams for:

Vineyards

Specialist vineyard teams for:

Pruning
Wire lifting and clipping
Bud-rubbing and shoot thinning
Leaf plucking and canopy management
Crop thinning and yield management
Planting and young vine training
Hand harvesting and bin logistics

Orchards and Packhouses

Flexible orchard crews for:

Thinning (fruitlet and hand thinning)
Picking and harvest support
Pruning (winter and summer)
Tying, training and trellising
Planting, young tree establishment and redevelopment work
Hops vine training and stringing
Hops crop husbandry

High-output teams to support packhouse operations during peak:

Grading and quality checks
Packing and stacking
Tray and carton assembly
Palletising and coolstore movements
General labour

Arable farms

Seasonal labour support for arable and mixed farming operations, supplying staff to assist with:

Crop establishment
In-crop work
Picking and harvest support
Seedbed preparation
Drilling and planting
Direct seeding and hand sowing
Transplanting seedlings / seedling establishment
Weeding
On-farm seed handling
Seed cleaning and grading line labour
Seedling propagation
Post-harvest and store work
General farm labour

Other primary industry

Dedicated crews to support propagation and large-scale plant production, including commercial nurseries.

Propagation and grafting support
Seeding, pricking out and transplanting
Potting and repotting (liners, rootstock, finished plants)
Spacing, staking and tying to maintain plant quality
Grading, trimming and quality checks before dispatch
Order picking, labelling and dispatch preparation
General nursery maintenance and block set-up/clean-up

New Zealand Ethical Employer

We have been an active member of the NZ Ethical Employers scheme since its inception and are committed to ethical employment performance in our services, and raising standards across our industry.

Global G.A.P Accredited

We’re also “GLOBAL G.A.P. certified”, which means our on-farm operations and labour practices meet internationally recognised standards for safety, traceability, worker welfare and environmental management, verified through independent audits.