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A 226ha dairy grazing block for sale with about 40ha of land suitable for maize, sits on the edge of the Waikato basin’s dairy country.
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Located 15km west of Otorohanga, the farm has been running a mix of sheep and cattle, including dairy grazers that are mated on the farm.

Kerry Harty from Harcourts in Otorohanga said the farm had been extensively improved in the past few years and was now well set up for dairy grazers with fences, water and good cattle handling facilities.

"The improvements on the place are above what you find in most farming situations. The soil has been really well looked after and they now have a good water reticulation scheme from a new bore. They've looked after the place very, very well."

Kevin and Annemieke Farmilo bought the farm eight years ago and devoted their time to transforming it into a well-designed and healthy property. Paddocks have been redesigned with a central lane, tracks metalled and pasture managed to offer a healthy range of herbage, with everything carried out meticulously.

Harty described the farm as a turnkey operation, ready for a new owner to take over without needing to spend any money on improvements.

"It's got good covered yards for calf rearing, so a dairy farmer could even take the calves there for staff to rear," he said. "And there's a large area where you could grow maize which is another opportunity."

Added to all this is an architecturally-designed four-bedroom home with a German-designed and manufactured Poggen Pohl kitchen. Designed with emphasis on indoor-outdoor living allows the open-plan living area to flow onto huge kwila decks to take in the rural views that are fringed by native bush and forestry boundaries.

Of the 226ha, 200ha is in grass and about 20ha is native bush, while 130ha of gentle to medium contour is ideal for dairy grazers. About 50ha is medium to steeper country more suitable for younger beef cattle or sheep.

It's now carrying 165 R2 heifers, 82 calves, 40 mixed-age breeding cows with calves, 850 ewes, 200 lambs, plus a few odds and ends. Most of the stock produced on the farm is finished, with the exception of the weaner steers that are sold about eight months old averaging 250kg to 300kg liveweight. Lambing achieves 130% at docking, with lambs averaging 17kg to 18kg at the start of November.

Depending on the season, about 60 large silage bales and 400 conventional hay bales are harvested on the farm. The owners have regrassed a small amount of pasture each year after crops such as rape and chicory. For the past six years they have applied Probitas fertiliser to improve the soil biology and create a range of healthy herbage in the pasture.

Fifty-two paddocks subdivide the farm which sits on Mairoa ash soils, with numerous sources of natural spring water, though a new bore now supplies water to troughs for 90% of the farm. Water is pumped to a tank and then gravity-fed to troughs around the farm.

"A good network of tracks allows all the paddocks to be mustered from an ATV and there's a fenced, metalled lane that makes it easy to move stock and access the rear of the farm."

The central lane leads to the shed and yards, with metal sourced from a good quality rotten rock quarry on the farm. New sheep and cattle yards are at both the front and rear of the farm, while other facilities include a three-stand woolshed with a 1000-head night pen, four haybarns, three-bay implement shed and a disused walk-through dairy.

"Some places on the market need a lot of work and money spent on them, whereas this place is well set up already for dairy grazers. All the improvements have already been done. It's a turnkey operation."

The farm is for sale at $2.875 million plus GST (if any). For further information contact Harty on 07 873 8700 or 027 294 6215. It can be viewed at www.harcourts.co.nz.

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