The Farms

Lanercost

The intention of a Future Farm is to demonstrate how new technologies and systems impact whole business performance, while maintaining leading production standards 

 

Farm location
North Canterbury Future Farm
SCORE (%)
3%
EBITRM/TFC
4.4 % Target for 2020

(%) Earnings before Tax, Rent, Manager salary as % Total Farm Capital

Farm insights

Stock

Approx 7000 SU farm of Sheep and Cattle

  • Reproductive performance
  • Production efficiencies

People

Full Time employee 

  • Safety, Wellness and Wellbeing
  • Developing and Retaining Talent

Environment

Hurunui catchment in North Canterbury, NZ

  • Climate
  • Water quality
  • Biodiversity

Land

1310 effective hectares of land and 20ha QE11 forestry

  • Soil
  • Pasture
  • Crops

Innovation

  • Technology
  • Farm Systems
  • Market opportunities

Farm reports

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2020 Sheep Scanning

Scanning results from 2020 season
Stock
PDF 117KB

Lease Learnings Document 2019

Negotiating the Future Farm Lease
Finance
PDF 977KB

Open Day 2019 Booklet

Background and key stats for 2019 Open Day
Land
Finance
Environment
PDF 6848KB

Lanercost Environmental Audit 2018

Comprehensive farm audit as part of the lease due diligence process
Environment
PDF 3737KB

Farm Environment Plan

Lanercost Farm Environment Plan
Environment
PDF 281KB

Sheep Genetics Plan 2018

AbacusBio developed a proposed genetic plan to identify breeders to approach for ram selection. The key objective of this was to firstly identify the key perfor
Stock
PDF 741KB

About the farm

Rapid Genetic Change

Artificial breeding technologies will be used on the Lanercost ewe flock, demonstrating the feasibility or otherwise of using these technologies to speed genetic gain in a commercial flock.

Low Methane Genetics

Rams selected for low methane production will be run alongside the farm rams to demonstrate the production differences between them and measure the differences in the methane production by their da

Virtual Fences

In spring, cattle will be fitted with collars which will enable virtual fences to be created using GPS to manage and track where the animals go.

Parasite Resistance

The number one animal health concern of sheep and beef farmers, the Future Farm team will show how we are dealing with this issue at Lanercost.

Farm Planning

Lanercost will demonstrate how Farm Planning will be used to make our business stronger.

Team

The Farm team consists of a Farm Manager, a Shepherd, and a Farm Supervisor.

Farm map

View our fly over video here