Rare opportunity to buy Hawke’s Bay station
Central Hawke’s Bay property Pukenui Station is for sale, offering an opportunity to secure sheep and beef scale rarely available, and options to purchase two additional blocks.
The 1270ha property in the Ashley Clinton district, a 164ha title with hunting hut and woolshed, and the 157ha Makaretu finishing block are being marketed for sale by tender though Bayleys and can be tendered for either together or separately, with tenders closing on Friday, May 14.
With annual rainfall exceeding 1500mm, and its medium-steep hill country contour spread between 400m to 600m, Pukenui also offers some highly cultivable 200ha of easy country providing ideal conditions for cropping and finishing young stock bred on the steeper country.
Bayleys Havelock North rural salesperson Tony Rasmussen said Pukenui’s flexibility is further enhanced thanks to having access to 157ha on nearby Makaretu Road only 3km from Pukenui, providing an excellent balance of more cultivable easy to medium finishing contour country, giving Pukenui the capacity to finish all its own stock.
‘‘The appeal of having Makaretu there is twofold. It not only increases Pukenui’s capacity but is in itself a nice smaller standalone cattle or deer property, complete with yards, reticulated water supply, a two-bedroom cottage, woolshed and deer shed.’’
Pukenui has come to the market after more than a decade in family ownership and has enjoyed careful reinvestment back into its yard, fence and raceway infrastructure, providing a solid ‘‘no surprises’’ opportunity for the new owner to start a new farming season running.
Pukenui is currently running 4400 perendale ewes alongside 120 angus cows, 80 angus rising twoyear heifers and wintering 600 weaner steers from the end of June to early August.
Depending on the season, Pukenui is also capable of finishing about 2000 trade lambs.
The deer operation on the Makaretu property has included 100 red breeding hinds, with lamb and cattle finishing alongside through summer-autumn.
Along with sound maintenance to the property’s infrastructure, Pukenui has also enjoyed an excellent fertiliser history, including regular applications of 250kg per hectare of sulphur super phosphate, along with DAP and sulphur over the two properties.
Improvements include a fivestand woolshed and covered yards, cattle yards with satellite sheep yards around the property, threebay implement shed and allweather airstrip with a 60-tonne fertiliser bin. The jewel in the property’s improvements is the large, renovated five-bedroom homestead, sitting on an elevated site with expansive gardens.
‘‘Pukenui offers a scale not easy to find in the region, and with that brings the opportunity for a younger farmer to move up in farm size, or possibly for a family keen to secure a property that provides a platform for a family operation employing two generations,’’ said Rasmussen. ‘‘It has been well looked after, delivering solid, reliable returns in a desirable part of the district.’’