Quality, Location and Scale - The Wait Is Over

This 137 hectare dairy unit is located on No. 8 Road near Springdale. The all flat contour with sandy loam and Te Puninga complex soils plus a very good dairy shed and a new home make this property a very attractive proposition.
The property is centred off a quiet side road with the tanker track leading to a very good 32 aside dairy with in-shed meal feeding system and rectangular yard providing great cow flow. Milking 320 cows with heifers off and 90 calves on, the production average for the last three years is 152,509 milk solids.
This property is one of the better units to come to the market this season. The farm is in eight titles and has two underpasses to access the 38 hectare block. With its excellent soil types, good races to all points and strong clean pastures plus the position on a quiet side road yet only two kms off State Highway 27 and an easy commute to Morrinsville and Te Aroha the location cannot be faulted.
The property is graced with an excellent five year old main home, a David Reid build. It has four bedrooms, ensuite, office, spacious kitchen and dining and lounge areas, a large upstairs family room, and an attached tripe garage. All this is set nicely in carefully crafted easy care surrounds with a view over most of the farm. The second home has four bedrooms, triple garage plus swimming pool and a nice setting amongst the totaras and kahikateas.
Support buildings at the dairy centre include a 7 bay gable shed (28mx10m) used for calf rearing and machinery storage with one bay enclosed (concrete floor) used as a workshop, a 5 bay enclosed half round shed with power, used for calf-rearing, plus a large 5 bay block shed used for storage and calf rearing and a 2 bay half round barn.
Across the road is an old dairyshed, 3 bay enclosed half round barn, 15mx15m gable implement shed and a 2 bay calf shed.
The water is sourced from an artesian type bore near the dairy where it is passed through a sand filter and pressure pumped through a 32mm loop line on the main block. The second block has a separate system (which can be inter-linked) from a shallow bore to manacon and pressure reticulated through 32mm and 25mm lines to all paddocks.
With production being fairly consistent from 320 cows, around 500-600 silage bales are made on farm each season and approximately 400 tonne of Ingham's meal and PKE mix is fed through the in-shed feeding system.
With the Piako River running along the entire western boundary, a beautiful setting of mature totaras and kahikateas and woodlots of same sprinkled around the farm, the aesthetic appeal can be seen and appreciated from the road.
Nearly the entire farm may be viewed from the three road frontages with access around the farm through an excellent race system and very good fences.
The effluent system comprises of a 25,000 litre concrete holding tank and pumped to a Numedic travelling irrigator covering approximately 40 hectares.
The fertiliser regime has followed recommendations from Ravensdown and the pastures reflect good management systems and pasture control. No cropping has been done on the farm in recent years although there is a history of under sowing with annual grasses.
The seller has made a purchase and will be going south on the 1st of June so motivation and realism are very high.
Properties such as this are indeed hard to find as most owners are reluctant to sell however the decision has been taken and it will definitely be in the market to sell.