Chairman: Gavin King, Ph: (03) 318 6938, email: N/a

Monitor Farm:    Campbell & Ingrid Tuer, Hororata

Location.  Home: “Glen Allan”, 468/0075 Scotts Road, P O Box 44, Hororata.  Lease from April 2006: “Bradford Creek”, Downs x Sleemans Rd, Glenroy, Selwyn District.  Phone: 03 318 0829.

The Farm.  Area 482ha total in three blocks.  Average rainfall 750 & 900mm.  Altitude 210 & 300 m.a.s.l.  Soils: stony silt and light alluvial soils at home, prone to drought.  Heavier rolling silt soils at Glenroy.

Farming Policies.  Coopworth x Texel/EF (“Textra”) breeding ewes, lambing 20 August.  First drafts early November.  Wean early December.  Ewe hoggets mated to Primera lambing 10 Sept.  Flexible cattle policies including dairy grazing, finishing 18-month steers and once-bred heifers.  Pasture renewal through kale to lucerne, bromes and new AR1 ryegrasses.

Production levels: Lambing 2005 – 142% in ewes & 103% in hoggets. 

Stock numbers at 30 June 2005: 2,266 ewes, 983 hoggets, 10 in-calf heifers & 66 finishing cattle.  Say 3,400su / 350ha = 9.7su/ha.   Numbers to be increased for winter 2006 with additional area.