Bayleys is marketing one of central North Island’s iconic and highly regarded stations by international tender, closing at 4pm on December 7, 2022.
Mangaohane Station is expected to draw global interest for its interesting mix of diversification opportunities, including deer farming, agri-tourism, outdoor accommodation experiences, through to guiding hunters and fishers to experience this great region.
The property is bounded by some of New Zealand’s most highly regarded properties and is located between the pristine Rangitikei River, renowned for its trophy brown trout and white-water rafting ventures, and the Ruahine Forest Park.
As a sheep and cattle station, its rare combination of scale, balance of country, free-draining volcanic ash soils and a high standard of productive improvements, support a track record of consistent stock carrying capacity and performance.
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The total land area of 4,840ha is just off the Napier-Taihape Highway, about 45km northeast of Taihape and 103km west of Hastings.
Bayleys Havelock North Country salesperson Tony Rasmussen and Bayleys Ruapehu and Rangitikei Country salesperson Pete Stratton say the property offers certainty of performance thanks to the massive and consistent investment made over decades in fencing, fertiliser, the water supply system and pasture renewal.
“Mangaohane is ‘next level’ in terms of its scale, development and infrastructure which is more typically seen in much smaller units,” Rasmussen says.
“It’s an exceptional property with well-maintained infrastructure, excellent stock handling facilities, superb soils and an enviable balance of country that allows the station to breed and finish a significant proportion of its own lambs and steers each year.”
Just over 800ha is flat and another 991ha is rolling. Together with another 1,175ha of easy hill country and 662ha of steeper hill blocks, this has supported more than 40,000 stock units for the past few winters at a sheep-to-cattle ratio of about 66:34.
“More than 100km of new fencing has been erected over the last 48 years, and the station now boasts 140 paddocks with an average size of about 30ha,” Stratton says.
Mangaohane has consistently produced about 26,000 lambs in recent years from its Romney flock of about 18,500 ewes, including 4,000-5,000 two-tooths, and the mating of about half of the station’s 6,500-7,500 ewe hoggets.
A breeding cow herd of just over 1,200 Angus cows, plus replacements, is wintered. For the past seven years, about 200-250 of the station’s rising two-year heifers have been mated.
Many of the station’s sale lambs are finished on the property on a range of crops and new grass to carcass weights between 16-18kg. Between 300 and 400 prime steers are also finished annually at around 300kg carcass weight.
“Over the past 16 years, around 2,600ha of country has been cropped and re-sown in new grass and there is currently another 332ha in winter feed crops and 103ha of new grass sown,” Rasmussen says.
Supporting the farm’s livestock performance is water supplied from the Erewhon Rural Water Scheme which is piped to 320 troughs in most of the station’s 140 main blocks and paddocks.
“The Erewhon water system underpins the significant investment made throughout the station including many kilometres of metal tracks, exceptional fencing, massive areas of new grass and superb stock handling facilities,” Stratton says.
Mangaohane Station’s manager heads a team of six permanent staff, comprising head shepherd, three shepherds, a cook and general hand. A recent refurbishment of the manager’s home has been completed, and other houses and quarters are in good order.
The total land area includes 132ha of established pines, nearly 300ha of native bush and manuka, plus another 186ha of riparian areas.
Stratton says the nearby Taihape township provides a good range of rural support services, including banking, engineering and stock and station services, plus the region offers a wide mix of leisure and recreational activities.
