- Located 8 minutes out of Okato in Coastal Taranaki. A friendly farming community with good local schooling and amenities.
- Peak milking 460 pedigree Holstein and Jersey cows.
- 158ha milking platform which consists of prime flat coastal land.
- Milking through a 30 aside herringbone shed with ACRs and Inshed feeding.
- Operating a split calving structure to minimise cow wastage, optimise feed supply and demand and reduce milking duration at times throughout the season.
- Running two herds, with 2 people in the cowshed. Part time casual labour employed to cover regular time off, enable flexibility in the system and help through peak times (calvings and matings).
- We are passionate about cow breeding and genetics, with an aim to continue building an elite herd of profitable cows that are a pleasure to milk and work with.
- System 3-4 farm with in-shed feed and summer crops grown. Achieving over 500 kgMS/cow.
- Approx. 100 replacements reared each year which remain on farm until May, when they head to grazing. We take pride in rearing well grown youngstock.