The 90 hectare effective farm, close to Westport, includes 76ha freehold and 24ha of Maori leasehold that is a long-term, stable lease where the leaseholder owns all the improvements.
Shari McLaughlin from Farmlands Real Estate says the owners have successfully run a once-a-day and self-contained milking operation, and a twice-a-day system, which shows the versatility of the farm.
“It’s got a lot going for this farm. It’s a really versatile unit with good water from a bore, good barns for the size of the property and a really comfortable, roomy home that has four bedrooms and an office.
“It’s been regrassed over the years and has good pasture and it’s got a good gravel and bark standoff pad with wind-proofing and feed troughs. And it’s got a very tidy dairy.”
The standoff pad has a separate effluent system to the 24-aside herringbone dairy which has Delaval plant with Waikato pulsators. Other buildings on the farm include a four-bay implement shed, a four-bay barn-calf shed, an old barn and a fertiliser bin capable of holding 200 tonnes of lime.
The farm flows over flat country and small terraces on river silt soils and is divided into 30 main paddocks with a central race.
This season the farm is milking 180 cows twice a day for an estimated production of 75,000kg milksolids (MS). In the past it has achieved up to 93,941kg MS on a twice-a-day system.
Silage is made on the farm if there is surplus feed, while straw is bought in for wintering the cows. This season the heifers were sent away for grazing in September, while the calves remained on the farm.
To view the farm visit www.farmlandsrealestate.co.nz TU10722 and for further information contact McLaughlin on 0272 666 850.
