{"id":13898,"date":"2015-03-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.farmersweekly.co.nz\/hokitika-grazing-on-the-block\/"},"modified":"2015-03-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T11:00:00","slug":"hokitika-grazing-on-the-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.farmersweekly.co.nz\/news\/hokitika-grazing-on-the-block\/","title":{"rendered":"Hokitika grazing on the block"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

Sitting about 20 minutes south of the West Coast town the farm was originally set up with a conversion in mind and has been wintering dairy cows, grazing close to 400 young stock through summer and producing nearly 1500 bales of balage.<\/p>\n

Greg Daly from Greg Daly Real Estate says the block is handy for Canterbury farmers and is available for this winter with a cover of about 2000 tonnes of drymatter a hectare.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a big shortage of wintering blocks in Canterbury and this one is well set up for winter.\u201d<\/p>\n

About 200ha is effective grazing with a further 86ha of Pakihi soil that could be developed for further grazing. Another 100ha is in native bush.<\/p>\n

Much of the land is Hari Hari river silts, with Arahura and Waitahu soils on the terraced land and steeper hills. A major capital fertiliser programme has been in place, with its history and soil tests available.<\/p>\n

Daly said the farm had good access with a central race and a new Class 1 bridge over Doctors Creek. Facilities on the farm include a haybarn, cattle-yards and a bushman\u2019s hut.<\/p>\n

A gravity system brings water from a 63mm main line, that reduces to 32mm at the bridge to 12 water troughs in the paddocks.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s got rainfall, fertility, grass growth, size, location and potential \u2013 it\u2019s got it all.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information contact Daly on 0274 783 594. The block can be viewed at www.gregdalyrealestate.co.nz<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 448-hectare grazing block near Hokitika, which winters 900 cows plus young stock and has scope for further development, is for sale at $3.5 million.\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":13899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t