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NORTHERN FARMING LIFESTYLES
March 2015
Growing with Kapiro by Ann Morgan
Kapiro Station in Kerikeri is one of Landcorp Farming Limited’s 130 farms situated throughout New Zealand and Andrew Kirk is the farm business manager. The 3000ha property’s two main enterprises are a large scale Angus genetics unit with 450 recorded cows calving.
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hey provide up to 120 Angus breeding bulls to other Landcorp properties and commercial clients and have a large scale dairy unit milking 1,000 cows — in conjunction with these enterprises is a 4,500 Romney ewes flock. Andrew is married to Natasha and they have four children, Amber, James, Brianna and Jonty. Natasha takes care of the family home while Andrew manages the farm. A real All Blacks supporter, he has not missed a game for the past 15 years, he also supports the Chiefs and Hurricanes and enjoys hockey and deer stalking. He grew up on the family farm
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on Whanganui River, in the bush. With his father passing away when he was 16, he always envisioned going back to run the farm one day but this was not a viable option. Andrew’s previous management experience has been in Whanganui, Hawkes Bay and Whakatane — all having very differing climatic environments. Whilst in Hawkes Bay he won the New Zealand Ewe Hogget competition and the Peren cup for the top Perendale farmer in New Zealand. “When our children started school, the area we lived in became important as I did not want my children going to boarding school like I did. The
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opportunity came to move to Kerikeri when my two eldest were starting high school. The move was a strategic one and we have now been at Kapiro for seven years,� says Andrew. “It is important that our children have access to good education and the best opportunities for their future so they can be self sufficient when they get older.� In his time at Kapiro he has completed his last papers through Massey university. “I enjoy the variety of this job and it would have been unlikely that I would have had the opportunity to have farmed in so many different locations and to this scale if I had purchased the family
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