865 Balmoral Station Road, Culverden, Hurunui

Large Scale Dairy Farm

This is a rare opportunity to secure a 396.1872ha dairy unit in the favoured Amuri district of North Canterbury, which has been well-developed, but has further scope to increase production. A very well-laid-out farm, with excellent tracking and road frontages on all boundaries. The dairy shed is a modern 70-bail rotary with Read plant and includes a grain feeding system. The irrigation supply is from the Amuri Irrigation Scheme, of which the property holds 366A Shares, with water supplied at the rate of 219.6 litres/sec in the 2013/14 season, which is piped from an elevated canal and delivered to the farm under pressure, plus a 21 litres/sec supply consent from Dry Stream, which runs through the property. The irrigation water is delivered via centre pivots, guns and sprinklers and there is potential to increase the irrigated area further.

There is a three bedroom plus study homestead plus four other dwellings and farm support buildings are of an excellent standard. An active re-grassing programme, combined with on-farm wintering has been used to improved pasture productivity. The production target for 2013/14 is 485,000kgMS from 1,040 cows off a 295ha milking platform.

Please phone Ben Turner - M 027 530 1400, Dean Pugh - M 027 335 6303 or Mike Adamson - M 027 227 1909 for further information.