The 116ha farm at Maramarua is being sold by auction and Karl Davis from Bayleys Hamilton said the farm had good scale, a good dairy, a home, and a cottage, so a first-farm buyer could concentrate on boosting milk production.
"They can come in and focus on the core business which is making milk. A new farmer getting stuck in with some cropping and feed would be able to get upside with production."
Last season the farm produced 74,246kg milksolids (MS) through its six-year-old Don Chapman 24-aside herringbone dairy and two seasons ago it produced 81,259kg MS.
It flows over easy to rolling contour in a location that puts it almost equal distance between Hamilton, 73km to the south, and Auckland, 81km to the north. Thames and the Coromandel Peninsula are an easy distance east of the farm. The farm sits near State Highway 2 and is close to the Maramarua Forest for recreation, while the Firth of Thames offers great fishing.
"Rather than dead flat like most Hauraki Plains farms, it has a little bit of contour which gives it some classical appeal and it offers a good location between two major centres.
"The house has four bedrooms and has had some money spent on it in the past three years, and the cottage has two bedrooms. So it's good infrastructure and a lot of it is new."
Amenities on the farm include a three-bay implement shed, a round three-bay haybarn, a square haybarn, calf sheds, and a palm kernel bin.
The farm will be auctioned on October 9 and can be viewed at www.bayleys.co.nz/89217. For further information contact Davis on 0508 838 383 or 027 496 4633.
