Comprising three well-known and respected farming units acquired and farmed together since 2006 by the Geddes family, Kelvin Grove’s 850 hectares, Brookdale’s 1032ha and The Sugar Loaf’s 609ha now form the nucleus of Poplar Grove Station being marketed by Craig Bates of Farmlands Real Estate.
Purchasers will have the option to buy the properties individually or any combination of them along with three bare land blocks mainly in lucerne.
Irrigation has been developed in recent years and provides about 80ha of gravity-fed spring water to K-Line and hard hose across both Kelvin Grove and Brookdale. Potential to store and harvest water is also an option the owners have explored.
Improvements include a very good homestead at Kelvin Grove with four bedrooms, with en suite, kitchen, dining/living and separate lounge in a private and sunny setting, three cottages, two woolsheds and covered yards, several hay barns, implement shed and silage pits, deer shed and facilities make a full complement of tidy buildings suitable for a large-scale farming operation, Bates said.
The full property provides a balanced farming opportunity with 16 tussock blocks on the faces of the Rock and Pillar range, 12 deer-fenced paddocks, 90ha of lucerne with a very good balance of easy and flat valley country with record fertiliser history, improved gravity stock water supply plus very good natural creeks and dams throughout the properties.
Well farmed and stocked, Poplar Grove Station runs Turanganui breeding lines of 1425 two-tooth Romney ewes, 4075 MA Romney ewes, 1475 Romney ewe hoggets, 200 MS lambs, 286 MA breeding cows including 51 first calvers, 26 R2 cattle, 50 R1 heifer replacements, 63 R1 cattle and 10 breeding bulls and until recently 160 MA hinds, 140 MS deer and six stags.
Poplar Grove Station is a well balanced traditional sheep, beef and deer property situated just over an hour from Dunedin City, Middlemarch, nearby, is the start of the Otago Central Rail Trail and terminus of the Taieri Gorge Railway.
Tenders close at noon, November 25, unless sold earlier.
More? Contact Craig Bates 027 489 4361.
