Farm Statistics:
243ha milking platform
270ha runoff
850 cows in 16/17 season. Crossbred
54 bale rotary shed
4 full time staff + calf rearing + owners labour
4 houses
Irrigated with pivot and a couple of klines
Land:
Milking platform flat, support block flat to rolling
Free draining soil over stone
Fodder beet, grain and baleage to milkers, straw, grass silage and beet to dries – 900gm dry matter/cow/annum
Fodder beet grazed insitu on farm
Other:
Cold winters, hot summers
Pasture Coach, Minda, Protrack Advantage, Farmax and DSM computer programmes used.
Not an isolated community – just over an hour to Christchurch
Primary and Secondary schools 10 minutes away
Recent upgrading of dairy industry services in Culverden.