Mark Wilson from Southern Wide Real Estate describes the 170 hectare farm as a solid unit with tidy improvements that allow an incoming farmer to focus on what counts.
The farm sits 4.8km from Waikaka and 30km from Gore and flows over flat to easy-rolling contour with some steeper-rolling country at the rear of the property.
For the past two years the farm has used fodder beet as a winter crop and turnips through summer. It now has 16.5ha of fodder beet, including two paddocks in their second year. About 3.5ha is usually sown in summer turnips from the winter cropping area.
Most years the farm buys in 500 bales of balage and between 100 and 150 bales of straw, while it makes pit silage from surplus feed. The farm has been wintering 380 cows and milking between 360 and 370 through the season.
Water for the farm is sourced from a stream with consent for 30,000 litres a day and that caters for stock and wash-down, with green water used for the yard washdown, while water from the Otama Water Scheme is used for the houses, plant and hot water and the dairy.
The dairy is a 30-aside herringbone with a recently-installed meal feeding system. The effluent system at the dairy was upgraded in 2013-14 and now goes through a screw press to a 90-day holding pond before being distributed onto pasture via eight K-line pods.
Large covered yards have been converted into a calf shed and workshop area, and there’s a three-bay implement shed.
A large three-bedroom weatherboard home with office has been extensively modernised throughout, and there’s a second three-bedroom home and self-contained quarters.
The farm can be viewed at www.southernwide.co.nz ref SWG1490 and for further information contact Wilson on 0274 917 078.
