Waratah is located in the popular Whangaehu Valley farming district a 25 minute drive north east of Masterton. A real feature of this sheep and beef farm is that it is very clean with 550 hectares effective grazing land and the 29 hectare balance in cutover or newly planted forestry and natives. The contour is mainly medium hill with 10 hectares of valley flats or tractor country. Fertiliser has been regularly applied annually at 200-250kg/ha Super or DAP, with 1 t/ha of lime over 25% of the farm every year. There are 61 paddocks wintering around 3,200 ewes, 900 ewe hoggets, 120 cows, 20 heifers and 40 mixed cattle. The buildings consist of an architecturally designed five bedroom homestead built in 2013 by Thistle Building Company, a fully renovated Lockwood three bedroom second home, a four stand woolshed with a night pen capacity of around 1200 and a three bay implement shed along with two sets of cattle yards, main sheep yards and five sets of satellite yards the infrastructure is very sound. Please contact the agents for further information - a property report will be available. Inspection by appointment only. Sale Process- Tender, closing 4pm Wednesday 18th January 2023