For Sale by Deadline Private Treaty
Friday 28 March 2025, 2.00pm
This 258.34ha dairy farm, located in Ashley Downs has a well-balanced contour of flat to rolling contour. It is currently milking 585 cows, with a target production of 285,000kgMS. Featuring a reliable 40 ASHB cowshed, 530-cow rectangular yard and a flood wash system that is centrally located for easy farm management. The well-laid-out farm offers two homes: an original 4-bedroom home with open-plan living, and a 3-bedroom transportable home, double-glazed with recent renovations. The farm also includes a 120T concrete silage pad, adequate support buildings and good rotten rock on farm. Additionally, 85ha of new grass was established last year, enhancing productivity. This property presents excellent opportunity for first farm buyers or those looking for strong returns, available for possession this season with delayed settlement until February 2026.
258 ha
Clinton, 9.3km
Balclutha, 33.5km
Gore, 45.3km
Clinton School, 9.5km
Waiwera South School, 14.6km
Gore High School, 46.3km
South Otago High School, 32km
Finegand Alliance, 35.6km
12.4ha in kale (seed production). Balance in permanent pasture. 32% of the milking platform has been re-grassed this season.
Flat to undulating.
Wairuna silt loam 300-600mm deep fertile top soil.
Yellow clay subsoil great summer moisture holding capacity.
750-950mm
100-160 MASL
Annual weed spray programme.
11 units from the local scheme supplying seven units to the dairy unit and four units to the run-off plus bore at the dairy shed with 3 x 30,000 litre storage supplying the shed and back up water supply to farm.
Stone trap to weeping wall to 60 day storage pond. Travelling irrigator and umbilical.
Under pass sump and pumped to storage pond.
Fertiliser application history available upon request.
1.2 tonne per cow
700 bales.
Original 1940's four bedroom home with open plan living and kitchen. House is well heated via log burner and heat pump as well as being double glazed. Water is from rural water scheme.
40 aside herringbone shed. Read milking plant with rectangle yard 530 cow capacity, race and crush at the shed for drafting, flood wash at the shed. Effluent is stone trap to weeping wall to a 60 day storage pond.
120T silage pit at the cowshed yards/ concrete base
Well sheltered with mix of tree species.
Approx 1ha of macrocarpa.
585 cows peak milked
4th August - 20th October
