240 Muddy Creek Road, Omakau

Satinburn Dairy Farm, Omakau, Central Otago.

Satinburn has a total area of approximately, 475ha.

Spray irrigation encompasses 306ha, more or less, of the 376ha milking platform via seven variable rate centre pivot irrigators. Irrigation is supplied by Omakau Area Irrigation together with considerable private water rights, complemented by significant on-farm storage. Further consent approval has recently been approved for additional on-farm storage.

The 169ha, more or less, the balance of the property provides valuable additional milking platform area, supplementary feed, wintering, and dairy support options.

“The property has all the bells and whistles and is supplied from a low-cost irrigation source.”

Soils are predominantly Lauder silt and clay loams with an area of Conroy silt loam on the flat/rolling fully cultivatable property.

Satinburn Dairy has top-class facilities and infrastructure.

The 64-bail rotary cowshed is fully automated, with Protrack, in-shed feeding, cup removers, and auto drafting.

The effluent system is state of the art with a 120-day storage pond, (based on the current number of cows), and effluent application by way of variable rate through the centre pivots.

Farm infrastructure includes a five-bay fully enclosed concrete floor implement shed, a fully enclosed ex-deer shed, and yards that provide ample calf-rearing facilities and can more than cater for any potential farm growth. A Portacom building provides a dedicated farm office space.

The property has excellent tracks and lanes, formed with material from an on-farm quarry, servicing all 36 main paddocks. High-producing rye / clover pastures were established across the total effective area of the property during the conversion in 2017, with a continuing annual regressing program.

“Satinburn is a real ‘A’ grade property, with lots of growth potential.

The main home has four bedrooms and a commanding position overlooking the farm, while a further two near-new three-bedroom homes provide ample warm and modern staff accommodation.

Since the farm conversion, the vendor's policy has been to winter a percentage of the cows on the property. Satinburn has approved consent to annually cultivate and plant 51ha of crops for intensive winter grazing.

Fodder beet and kale have been cropped for winter feed with Fodder Beat also utilized in the autumn to help maintain cow condition while extending lactation days. The property also takes advantage of Fodder Beet in the spring as a low-cost high-energy supplementary feed.

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