All that for $2.8 million makes it a great first farm opportunity, Shari McLaughlin from Farmlands reckons.
“It’s a solid first farm with motivated retiring vendors, good location and really good facilities – in a nutshell.”
The farm lies a few kilometres southwest of Westport on good soils of sandy loam on rolling contour that has been largely flipped over the years to produce a free-draining result ideal for wintering the herd. The vendor winters the 280-cow herd, using winter crops of turnips and rape.
Last season the farm produced 107,610kg milksolids (MS) and 111,811kg MS the season before, with about 100 tonnes of palm kernel bought in each year. About 100 round bales of balage are made off-farm, while 4ha of summer turnips is grown on the milking platform. As part of the farming policy, calves head off the farm to grazing and R2 heifers come back at the end of July.
A central race connects the 43 main paddocks with the 36-aside herringbone dairy that has a meal feeding system in place which hasn’t been used by the vendors.
“They’ve been using palm kernel because it’s cheaper.”
A good solid three-bedroom home has the bonus of a self-contained sleepout and typical West Coast views of snow-capped mountains while close to the sea.
Ample farm facilities include a new three-bay haybarn, a six-bay shed with lock-up bay, a four-bay calf shed, storage shed and a fertiliser-palm kernel bunker.
The farm can be viewed at www.farmlandsrealestate.co.nz ID TU10621. For further information contact McLaughlin on 027 666 850.
