Rakaia Island Ltd (RIL) is a large scale family dairy farming business milking 9,000 cows on six dairy platforms plus dairy support and cropping. The properties are located at Rakaia Island, Southbridge and Woodstock Farms near Oxford. RIL takes pride in achieving high production through a grass based dairy system and provides an exciting sustainable environment for staff to live, learn and grow within the business. RIL adheres to traditional family values that respects and has empathy for their people, animals and land. Through perseverance, effective innovation and sustainable environment practices coupled with mentoring and development of people, an exceptional and unique business has grown and developed to become a very robust and exciting organisation to be part of.
Situated only minutes from southbridge and an hour to Christchurch, the district offers excellent facilities, clubs and schooling.
In january we going to start new dairy 3 cowshed with 70 bail rotary with cup removers and ADF SYSTEM .