Grandview Farm: Dairy for sale at Stony Creek

Kiwis Steve and Alison Bouma spent almost four years looking for a dairy in Australia before settling on Grandview Farm at Stony Creek, mainly due to its ability to grow lots of grass.

Dream location: The Stony Creek dairy farm currently holds about 330 cows.

AUSTRALIA not only won the cricket against New Zealand but it also has some of the best dairying country in Australasia, according to one Gippsland farmer.

Steve and Alison Bouma should know – they are Kiwis who came across the Tasman to try dairying in Australia.

After looking for almost four years they settled on a property at Stony Creek, mainly due to its location and its ability to grow grass — and lots of it.

Grandview dairy farm house shot supplied

STONY CREEK

GRANDVIEW FARM

PROPERTY: DAIRY FARM

SIZE: 190HA

SALE: AUCTION FEBRUARY 14 IF NOT SOLD BEFORE

PRICE: DISTRICT SALES HAVE RANGED BETWEEN $22,140-$23,370/HA

AGENT: LANDMARK HARCOURTS

CONTACT: MATT REDMOND 0418 357 341

“We looked hard at a lot of dairy farms in a lot of areas before we bought here.

“It was as near as we could get to dairy farm country in New Zealand except the rainfall here is more concentrated in winter.

“Yet we seem to be able to grow the same amount of feed and it is green for a long time.”

Such has been the success of their move that the Boumas are now in the Dairy Australia top 100 farm monitor project.

The Boumas have worked to maintain or improve the infrastructure in place when they bought the property and have also added land to expand their area for milking.

The Boumas have been milking about 330-335 cows with their son Mark. But the lure of three new grandchildren in New Zealand has been too strong, and the couple are selling up.

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“If we were coming back to Australia to dairy farm, we would not be looking anywhere else but here and would even want to be on the same road,” Steve said.

The property is divided into 52 paddocks, and water is provided by gravity, which supplies troughs in each paddock. There is a central, all-weather laneway that gives access to all paddocks.

The property has extensive improvements including a 30-a-side herringbone dairy with automatic cup removers, a 340-cow cow yard with an undercover artificial insemination race, a 12,000-litre DeLaval milk vat, cattle loading race, three-bay machinery shed, a two-bay machinery shed, four hay sheds, two disused dairies and a woodchip calving pad.

There is also a three-bedroom, two-bathroom brick veneer house.

The property is 12km from Meeniyan, 22km from Foster and 24km from Leongatha.