This impressive 958 hectare North Canterbury property has been developed and transformed from a traditional sheep breeding unit to a higher producing finishing unit. This has been achieved principally with the establishment of irrigation with good consent rights and the development of increasing dry-matter-producing pastures and lucerne paddocks. This has also been aided by increased fencing, access development, better water supply and fertiliser and lime application.
While the farming model of recent times has not been traditional, with a large lamb-fattening policy, dairy heifer rearing and support, a heifer export programme and beef cattle fattening, the property could now, with the new development, return to a very successful breeding and fattening operation.