For Sale by Deadline Private Treaty
Tuesday 18 March 2025, 2.00pm
This large scale self-contained dairy and cropping farm unit offers strong productivity and future potential.
It is well equipped with a 44 bail rotary dairy with in-shed feeding, ACRs and Protrack for maximum efficiency. The 700 cow Redpath wintering shed, 340sqm concrete feed pad and partially covered calving pad support herd health and easy management. Housing includes two good homesteads, a modern two bedroom home, with option of an additional homestead if required.
The gentle rolling contour, well laid out wide lanes, excellent fertility and a strong regrassing program have set this farm up for high performance. Approximately 81ha of established forestry adds diversification through timber and the ETS scheme. The farm also winters a large number of cows from the vendor's other operations.
A large scale, diverse, efficient enterprise offering strong returns and long term potential.
715 ha
Balclutha, 17.3km, Clinton, 28.6km, Dunedin, 95.7km
South Otago High School
Balclutha Primary, 17km (Bus at gate)
South Otago High School, 16km (Bus at gate)
Approx 470ha effective platform, 100ha planted in Barley (ex 2024 Kale crop), 80ha in trees, 30ha non cultivable gullys and 35ha ineffective.
Mix of easy rolling contour along with some steeper country.
Te Houka Loam.
700mm to 800mm
Water is sourced from the Richardson rural water scheme (116 units total). Total of 700,000 litres of storage (22 tanks in total).
Dairy Shed: All gravity from the dairy shed to three small settling ponds which is then pumped to approx 13 million litre pond (minimum 90 day storage). Wintering shed is Gravity from wintering barn to the three small settling ponds. All umbilical with no hydrants.
Ballance recommendations. Soil tests available upon request.
External access off Clifton Road. Good internal access via central all weather wide lanes.
1.2t per cow through the sheds.
Approx 1.2t DM per cow of silage/baleage. Changes annually.
Well appointed four bedroom brick and roughcast home. Open plan kitchen, dining and lounge area. New colour steel roof. Yunca multi fuel burner. Double garage and single garage. Rain water collection to tank under patio. Back up 16,000 litre tank at woolshed.
The 44-bail rotary dairy shed features automatic in-shed feed, cup removers, and read slide pulsators, along with a new rotary wear strip and auto greaser installed in winter 2024. It also includes a ProTrack auto draft system added in winter 2023, a 50-tonne Hecton feed silo for in-shed feeding, and a 350-ton grain silo with a crusher and mixing silo. 500 cow yard plus 100 cow holding race.
Three silage pits (one with concrete floor) 900 tonne dry matter in total.
Yards just off cowshed with permanent load out ramp along with an older wooden set.
80ha in trees with 50ha planted in 2024. Species are a mix of Douglas fir, Pinus radiata and some poplars.
1850 dairy cows, 585 beef cattle, 3500 winter lambs, Calved 3050 dairy cows on farm through a wet spring in the barns facilities.
4th August - 20th October
At valuation.
4.5 FTE
Parklea Dairy is a high-performing, scale dairy farm ideally located in the Wairuna district, 45km from the Gore township. This well-established property features a robust, efficient operation, with...
For Sale by Deadline Private Treaty
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