For Sale by Deadline Private Treaty
Wednesday 10 December 2025, 12.00pm
A genuine opportunity to secure scale and quality in a proven dairy region. Comprising 406ha of mainly flat to gentle rolling contour, this well-developed and efficiently run Eastern Bush unit presents in excellent heart.
Infrastructure includes a well-appointed 54 bail rotary shed built in 2009, supported by calving and young stock facilities. The property is well raced and subdivided, with water supplied from a bore and creek take.
Three tidy homes, all Healthy Homes assessed, provide good, well-kept accommodation across the property. Approximately 50ha of the neighbouring property is leased and consented for milking through to 2031, with a further three year renewal option. Once redevelopment is complete, the property will be fully self-contained.
A well-presented Southland dairy operation offering scale, quality and continued potential.
407 ha
Otautau 25.5km, Winton 57.9km, Invercargill 75.3km.
Hauroko Primary School, bus at the old school corner.
Zoned Waiau Area School.
Alliance Lorneville 66km.
Invercargill 68km.
Open Country Dairy.
Approximately 45 ha of paddock area is planned for winter feed for 2026, comprising around 4.5 ha of kale with the balance in fodder beet (approximately 38 hectares of actual crop). Normally, around 1,400 bales are placed on crop each winter.
This season, 50 ha of new grass will be sown on the lease block and a further 45 ha on the freehold land. The property operates on a 7.5 year regrassing rotation.
Approximately 4 hectares of fodder beet will be grazed by the vendors in May.
Mix of flat to rolling contour.
Generally sunny, North/North East aspect
Mostly Lyoncross with parts Otanomomo + Tiitipua, Braxton + Tuatapere and Makarewa + Titipua.
1,100ml.
155MASL.
Annual spraying is carried out as part of the farm’s weed management programme. Gorse in the gullies is scheduled to be sprayed this spring.
Longest walk 2km.
Water for the cowshed is sourced from a bore used for washdown, along with a surface take from the creek with a consent (fitted with a screen) supplying stock water. The system includes a monitor connected to Environment Southland via Halo for compliance reporting.
Water is pumped from storage tanks to troughs in all paddocks through a network of 50 mm and 63 mm lines, with a SoluDose system installed at the shed.
The main homestead is connected to the Eastern Bush Water Scheme, with an allocation of 7,000 litres per day. The other dwellings are serviced by individual roof catchment tanks.
Effluent from the shed and yard flows by gravity through two weeping walls to a newly (2024) lined pond which is consented (2,000 m³), then is pumped to the farm via two sets of maxi pods on a 90 mm line. Hydrants cover approximately 85 ha, with discharge consent for 339 ha.
Milking on the lease block is planned to begin by February. The owners are transferring 50 ha from the freehold to the leasehold area to enable milking there.
1,000 cows until 31st May 2035.
AUTH-20242778-01
As per Ballance recommendations.
150 units per ha, as per consent.
Clifden Gorge Road and Otahu Eastern Bush Road. Majority 7m wide internal lanes.
As at 2nd June 2,000kg DM pasture cover will be left on farm. 1,450 bales of baleage suitable for wintering of which 1,250 will be placed on crop and 200 for springers.
Approx. 1t/cow 24 season, of 50/50 PKE/DDG until end Feb - May PKE.
Normally 1,000 bales made on farm and 600 brought in.
A large family home constructed of brick and roughcast with an iron roof. The layout includes a separate kitchen and dining area, and a generous north-facing living room. Heating is provided by a multi-fuel Yunca Monte and a hallway heat pump. New carpet was installed in 2025.
The home offers five bedrooms, two toilets, and a large family bathroom. Several north-facing doors have been upgraded to double glazing, with the remaining windows timber-framed. Attached garaging provides ample storage.
Healthy Homes files available on request.
Brick exterior with a Coloursteel roof and aluminium windows. Three-bedroom home built in 2012, with a bathroom and a double garage incorporating the laundry and a toilet.
Brick exterior with a Coloursteel roof and aluminium windows. Two-bedroom home built in 2012, with a bathroom and an attached single garage.
Single-person accommodation rented from the lessee separately from the land lease agreement. Includes a two-car garage.
Well-appointed 54-bail rotary shed built in 2009, featuring ACRs, Milfos plant, DTS cooling system, Protrack drafting, in-shed feed system with a 30 tonne silo. Circular yard (500+ cows), excellent load-out and sorting area with a cattle handler. Two green tanks supply stock water and three black tanks supply cowshed water.
Calving facilities include nine double bays (consented for 99 cows), a seven-bay calf shed, a five-bay calf shed, and a single bay for bobby calves.
Other supporting buildings include a large concrete block two-bay workshop (one bay with concrete floor and work pit), a three-bay utility shed, and an older woolshed.
Dairy plant chattels, Milk is stored in 21,500 L and 11,500 L vats, Soludose, Davey water filtration system, newly installed caterpillar diesel generator, Protrack, computer and cattle handler. Excluded, bike shed by third house, whiteboards in cowshed.
Concrete silage bunker with sump to effluent pond. PKE bunker.
Available on farm.
Variety of trees providing good shelter.
910 cows and 210 R1s on crop.
820 milking cows including 190 heifers. 50 carryovers, 210 R1s, 200 calves.
26-30t on fodderbeet, 12t av kale.
10 Aug 2025
First option to purchase the herd which will be valued by PGG Wrightson.
Four.
C10.
Unique opportunity to purchase a scale dairy unit that has all the infrastructure to future proof any dairying business. 54 bail rotary cowshed, 680 cows free stall wintering barn, multiple concrete...
For Sale by Deadline Private Treaty
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