Makino is a farm with a successful breeding, finishing and cropping enterprise but with annual rainfall of 1150-1250mm is also suitable for dairy cattle.
It has 526ha of mainly easy rolling hill country with 100ha of highly fertile flats 18km northeast of Dannevirke.
“The flats are pumping with extensive plantain plantings and other new pastures.
“Winter crops are well established with oats recently sown,” Sam Twigg of Bayleys Waipukurau says.
The flats have been regrassed with about 19ha of plantain and various new grasses and fodder crops including 9.5ha of Spitfire. There are also 9ha of oats and a large quantity of balage on hand.
The land also offers forestry options with 33.53ha of silviculture already completed. There has also been aesthetic pole planting.
It has excellent fencing with mainly seven-wire conventional post and batten fences and a small area of electrics with lanes throughout the property.
Four separate reticulation systems sourced from springs, dams and streams distribute water to troughs.
Drainage is a mix of tile and Novaflow. All the flats and some hills have been drained in recent years.
The farm carries an average of 5600 stock units.
The four-bedroom homestead has a stunning outlook set among mature trees and well-maintained gardens with tennis court and swimming pool, Twigg said.
Other improvements include a single men’s quarters, a woolshed complex with 800 night pen capacity, a big implement shed, five haybarns and stables with tack room. The airstrip has a 90 tonne super bin. There are also main sheep and cattle yards as well as two sets of satellite sheep and cattle yards.
“Makino comes to the market in top order and is a credit to its present owners.
“Its location, its balance of contour, its diversification into forestry which adds to the mix, has created an opportunity not often seen in southern Hawke’s Bay,” he said.
For more information contact Twigg on 06 855 4702 or 027 655 4702, or Andy Hunter on 06 858 7906 or 027 449 5827.
