Located in the Maniototo Basin known for its reliable low cost water and stock health this 829 ha property has the ability and flexibility to operate different systems to suit intending purchasers.
Currently milking 1250 cows and producing 505,525 kgms in the 2024/25 season, plus wintering all cows and young stock on farm. This allows absolute control of the management of cows and heifers, providing insulation from grazing and transportation cost increases that have been experienced across the industry.
Infrastructure is of high quality with an 80 bail rotary shed, in shed grain feed system, ACR's, protrack automatic drafting, large scale cattle yards and a two pond effluent system. Buildings include a manager’s home, three quality staff homes and an older house, a large scale calf rearing facility, and sufficient multi use sheds with a new three bay shed currently being built by the dairy.
The irrigation system includes two storage dams, eight centre pivots and is supplied by 343 shares in the Maniototo Irrigation Company (Westside Company) that has a history of being totally reliable. Appleton has 546 hectares irrigated and 397 hectares used as milking platform predominately.
An opportunity to purchase a large scale irrigated dairy and support unit, that has quality infrastructure and is rarely available in Otago, contact the sole agents to inspect.