Picture this – 207 hectares (511 acres) of beautiful rolling and medium hill country situated on Otuarei Road between Taihape and River Valley. Add pockets of scattered native trees, with many shelter belts and small plantations plus full farm water reticulation from the Erewhon Rural Water Scheme, and you have a property you must inspect.
Pukeokahu is a thriving tourist destination with the River Valley Lodge offering accommodation, white water rafting, horse trekking, fishing, tramping, golf, kayaking and much more on the beautiful Rangitikei River.
Taihape is a thriving rural community servicing the local farmers and travelling public.
Located on State Highway One, it attracts plenty of through traffic with its tourism, bouquet shops and high quality eateries.
This extremely well maintained property has been faithfully farmed for three generations. The large three bedroom home sits on an elevated site providing panoramic views to both Mount Ruapehu and the Ruahine Ranges. There are a choice of primary schools, with one 10km East at Pukeokahu. A school bus at the gate transports children 17 kilometres into Taihape where there are two other primary schools, one of which is an Area school which also provides secondary schooling.
It is an attractive property featuring 60ha of cultivated contour being Ohakune silt loam, an extremely versatile soil suitable for intensive grazing, cropping and cattle fattening, with a balance of strong hill country providing plenty of aesthetic appeal. The Water Scheme is gravity reticulated to troughs in all paddock.
Ohui is very well fenced to 30 main paddocks, plus many smaller paddocks with a mix of good quality conventional and permanent electric fencing. The centrally located three stand woolshed plus two sets of satellite sheep yards and cattle yards service the farm plus an extensive 12 bay half round implement shed is suitable for a variety of uses.
With a strong fertiliser history, Ohui has received 50 tonnes of Superphosphate every year for the last 40 years allowing P levels ranging from 18 to 28.
The farm winters breeding ewes, hoggets and 170 heifers. Lambing between 138% & 158% with all lambs fattened to 16kg.
Peter Stratton of Bayleys Taihape says offers for Ohui close on Thursday 27th November.