Just 6km from Heriot, the farm milked 585 cows last season for 318,000kg milksolids (MS) and has a budgeted production of 325,000kg MS for this season from a 215ha milking platform.
Mark Wilson from Southern Wide Real Estate describes it as one of the “province’s supreme dairy units” that has been converted and operated to a high level, complemented by a top herd with genetics providing further income from the sale of bulls and semen.
“It really is one of the best dairy farms we’ve ever had to market in west Otago and eastern Southland.
“Everything has been constructed and maintained to a high level and the dairy has been an inspiration for a lot of dairy sheds around the province.
“No expense has been spared. This farm has the best quality the industry can offer.”
The 64-bail rotary dairy is fitted with Allflex readers and drafting plus automatic cup removers while the seven-year-old wintering shed has an automatic scraper and compressed foam mats for the cows.
Effluent from both the dairy and wintering barn heads through a stone trap to the storage pond and it can be irrigated onto paddocks via a cobra gun with a gator buddy.
Three to four kilograms of supplement in the form of fodder beet, whole crop and meal is fed through the dairy and in spring up to 6kg is fed at the wintering barn.
This year the farm has 12.5ha planted in lifting fodder beet and another 9ha is planted in grazing beet. Further supplements produced on the farm include 32ha of silage and 400 bales of balage this year.
Among the full range of farm buildings is a calf shed with an automatic feeder for up to 140 calves while other sheds cater for more calves, hay, implements and a lockable workshop.
Added to the comprehensive range of buildings are three homes including a four-bedroom brick homestead set in a picturesque garden, a quality three-bedroom home and a tidy three-bedroom home.
The farm is for sale at $11.88 million and can be viewed at www.southernwide.co.nz ref SWG1589. The herd is also for sale at valuation. For further information contact Wilson on 0274 917 078.
