The milking platform on the Herbert Road property is 80ha, and with the owners leaving the industry, all stock and machinery are available at valuation to allow a smooth walk-in transition if required, Mike Fraser-Jones of Bayleys said.
The contour is mostly flat to gentle rolling, with a number of gullies fenced into 10 well-planted duck ponds, and the dairy centrally located. The balance is in trees – 7ha of natives and manuka and 3ha of pines – and 10ha used for beef cattle.
The property is divided into 40 paddocks on the dairy component and five on the drystock (hill area) with permanent fencing on boundaries and mostly 4-wire internally. The farm has a central race running both ways from the 18-aside dairy and is a gentle walk for the stock from both directions.
“With production of to 62,800kg milksolids from this property and an adjacent very tidy 70ha dairy unit also for sale, there is very real opportunity here for an astute buyer,” Fraser-Jones said.
The dairy is set up to allow one person to milk. There is a wide range of support buildings and the effluent system is a large holding pond, gravity-fed from the dairy and pumped to a travelling irrigator covering about 25ha.
There are two houses on the property, with the main four-bedroom home handy to the dairy, and a separate three-bedroom home.
The property will be auctioned on November 20.
For further information contact Fraser-Jones on 027 444 7656. The property can be viewed at www.bayleys.co.nz.
