For Sale by Deadline Private Treaty
Friday 27 June 2025, 2.00pm
Blue Mountain Dairies offers genuine scale, covering 623.4ha of mostly flat to soft rolling contour in the reliable West Otago region.
Peak milking 1,300 cows and producing over 480,000kg MS, all cows are wintered on farm streamlining operations and reducing costs. Significant recent CAPEX has been directed into the herd, upgraded lanes and an improved water system, laying the foundation for future production gains.
Infrastructure includes a 54 bail rotary shed with ACRs and in-shed feeding, plus a 34 aside herringbone, offering flexibility to lift cow numbers with the 1,600 cow consent through to 2034. Housing includes five three bedroom homes and cottage, two sets of cattle yards, multiple calf sheds and a large multi-purpose grain shed.
With major reinvestment complete, this is a turn-key operation with clear upside, is ready for the next owner to realise its full potential in a proven dairying district. Vendors open to mid-season settlement or June 2026.
623 ha
Tapanui 10.7km, Gore 32.6km, Invercargill 96km.
Tapanui Primary School 10.7km.
Blue Mountain College 11km.
SFF Finegand 62.1km.
27.3ha Swedes, 19.3ha Oats/Moata, 29.8ha Young Grass ex Turnips with balance in permanent dairy pasture.
85.87ha Young Grass in 2023/24.
Approximately 410ha flat to soft undulation, 150ha of gentle rolling, 50ha medium rolling and 12ha of trees.
Athol, Waikoikoi, Ardlussa and Jacobstown.
900 - 1,000mm.
100-220 MASL.
Clean. No noxious weeds, annual spray programme in place.
Majority under 1.5km
All stock water is taken from a stream through a gallery, which is pumped to both dairy sheds through dosatron systems, then pumped through 50mm mainline with some 40/32mm to troughs in all paddocks. Bore is used for floodwash at the rotary cowshed. There is another bore situated on the west side of Pomahaka Road, however it is not currently utilised.
Consented for groundwater + water take until 2034.
Gravity from dairy shed to double weeping wall, pumped to clay lined pond, then gravity fed to hydrants and spread via dual cobras.
1,600 cow consent until 2034.
Good overall fertility with latest tests on file.
2024/25 fert plan:
Non effluent area 350kg/ha of Super 10K with 1kg/ha of Nutrimax Selenium 1%.
Effluent area 135kg/ha DAP with 1kg/ha of Nutrimax Selenium 1%.
Silage/baleage cuts 220kg/ha Serpentine Super 15K with 100kg/ha Urea.
140kgN/ha.
Very good external access via four roads, internal access is excellent with wide, all-weather lanes that have had recent maintenance.
408–446 tonnes of PKE/DDG.
2,350–3,834 bales baleage and 345–365 tonnes of silage.
Dwelling #1 (583 Pomahaka Road):
Weatherboard home with corrugated roof that is tidily presented. Heated via a fire with double glazed. Double bay enclosed shed.
Dwelling #2 (18 Dickison Road):
2000s three bedroom home with brick exterior. Heated via fire with double glazed windows.
Dwelling #3 (691 Pomahaka Road):
Circa 1950s three bedroom home with electric hot water and double glazed throughout. Heated with a heat pump and fire place. Includes a conservatory. Brick and roughcast exterior with a Colorsteel roof. Detached double garage.
Dwelling #4 (40 Rankleburn Road):
Original 1980s three bedroom home heated via fire. Internal access garage. Double glazed throughout. Split block exterior with pressed tin tile roof.
Dwelling #5 (47 Blue Mountain Road):
Three bedroom transportable home. Single glazed aluminium joinery, heated via a fire place. Internal access double garage. Colorsteel roof with fibre cement.
Single room unit: Single bedroom open living. Mixed window joinery. Heated via a heat pump. Attached double carport.
Dairy Shed 1: 54 bail rotary shed built in 2008/09 with De Laval plant. The cowshed has an in-shed feeding system, ACRs and Protrack automatic drafting. Dosatron at shed. Rectangular yard which is 1,450sqm with floodwash.
Dairy Shed 2: Commissioned 34 aside herringbone shed with rectangular yard. Used October-March through peak milking.
Standard chattels included, with other plant/machinery available at valuation.
Various species of mature shelter belts and approximately 12ha of mixed age Pines.
1,350 MA cows/in-calf R2s for 2025 winter.
Peak milk 1,300 MA cows.
Available at valuation.
All DNA tested last season, 66% Ancestry, 196/50 BW, 212/68 PW.
CM + 6.5 FTE.
C10.
