Awarua Farm - Dairy, Cropping, Forestry - Mixed Use
Located only 2kms to Lichfield is Awarua Farm - a mixed-use farm of scale being some 707ha. Currently run as a dairy, cropping and forestry unit, the property boasts impressive infrastructure and favourable contours.
Presently milking 850 cows once a day and producing yearly average of 300,000 MS with a 188-hectare grazing platform under a premium winter milk supply contract. Supported with key infrastructure including a 42 aside Herringbone milking shed, a 650-cow feed pad combined with two adjacent large concrete silage bunkers, a weeping wall solids trap and lined effluent pond that can irrigate over 70 hectares.
Cropping is across 154Ha of easy rolling country there is approximately 122ha of maize grown annually with a winter rotation of rye grass and further 32ha planted to Lucerne. This supports the dairy platform with all its Silage requirements with the balance of tonnes sold off farm.
Additional value can be realised within the property which has the harder faces all planted with majority Pinus Radiata established from 2010-2024 with a Net Stocked Area of 257ha. The stands combine a varied rate of thinning and pruning creating a diverse range of logs in close proximity to both domestic and export markets. The forest can be bought separately by way of a single rotation Forestry Right.
The southern end of the farm being only 3kms to the nearest power substation being Lichfield creates a favourable opportunity for solar conversion. In addition to this is 4 consented lifestyle lots just waiting on title that can be divested to realise further capital.
Mixed use farm of 707Ha (more or less)
Consistent average Milk Production of 300,000Kg/Ms per annum
154Ha of Cropping across easy rolling contour of Maize and Lucerne
257Ha of young-mid age class production forestry
Addition Value options including Lifestyle subdivision and solar
More information: https://www.colliers.co.nz/p-NZL67031101