Heddon Bush

1025 HUNDRED LINE RD EAST

PRICE

Deadline Private Treaty closing Friday, February 26, 2020 at 2pm. (Unless sold prior).

CONTACT

Country & Co Realty Ltd.

Matt Harrington, phone (0274) 980 474. Hayden McCallum 0278 962 644 Paula Laughton, phone (0275) 331 268. Shay Moseby, phone (0272) 686 879. Pip Ryan, phone (0274) 325 770. Licensed Agent REAA2008

Well situated, in the popular Heddon Bush district, handy to Drummond and Winton, this 101.4836 hectare farm is subdivided into 30 paddocks and is based on a robotic farming system where the gates open at 2am, 10am and 6pm.

The property boasts a good balance of soils, with easy contour and robotic grazing.

This very impressive operation has two road frontages, impressive dairy milking parlour with four Lely robots, and substantial wintering barn for 164 cows, a new calf shed and fully underground effluent storage.

The farm has often been admired over the years. It is centrally located in the heart of Central Southland, and with the added benefit of robotic milking, the property is cow friendly, with no pressure on the animals, ensuring fewer lame cows and less stress. Cows are able to choose when they get milked with great technology including automatic individual feed weighing, teats prewashed and individual quarter cup removers. There is no over-milking, and all undercover five-way drafting.

Water is supplied through a main bore (12m) at the cowshed. It is pumped to a 30,000L tank, and there are two additional tanks for storage and wash down.

There are two additional 30,000L tanks situated by the wintering barn along with a wash down pump and second bore at the calf shed. Stock water is all via cowshed, and there is no water to paddocks.

Staff accommodation is located at 1583 Winton Wreys Rd. The home is brick and roughcast with open plan kitchen, dining and living, three bedrooms, bathroom with shower, and two toilets. This home can be purchased with the farm or excluded.

There is a range of farm buildings, including a substantial clearspan dairy barn, under cover yards for pre and post milked cows, a large office with kitchen and viewing room, wintering barn with Lely internal partitions, Kraiburg matting, central feeding, 164 stalls, and underground effluent storage. There is also a large calf shed that was constructed in 2014, with open Lely robotic calf feeders with four stations, and a smaller older shed for Bobby calves.

Plant and machinery included in the sale comprises four Lely A4 robots, Glycol milk chiller, Lely calf feeders, generator, two grain silos, a 30,000L molasses tank, electric fence unit, two Discovery robots, rubber matting, Juno feed pusher, computer and software, Dosatron, buffer milk tank, and cow electronic collars.

If you are in the market for a property that offers location and infrastructure, then this is a must view farm. Possession date is June 1, 2021.

For more information, please contact the listing agents.