We purchased this property at Pokeno as a dry stock unit and converted it to dairying. Production in the first season (1989/90) was 16 500 kg milkfat (29 500 kg milksolids). Our farm is 60 effective ha (plus a large undeveloped area of the Mangatawhiri swamp), with a 20 ha runoff. The farm is 30 ha of stumpy peat soils, stopbanked but floodable from upstream ponding, and 30 ha of rolling Hamilton clay soils (75% mowable).
