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WAIRARAPA FARMING LIFESTYLES
May 2018
BY ANN VAN ENGELEN
Xanthea Nichols grew up on her family’s farm near Dargaville, Northland and as part of her Taratahi training programme experienced farming in Wairarapa.
“M
y father Shawn’s encouragement and positive farming attitude helped me decide I wanted to continue in his footsteps,” said Xanthea. As a second-year student at Taratahi Training Centre, she worked on a 500ha sheep and beef finishing farm and has received three scholarships for her studies. Xanthea is now working on Matapihi farm, a 673ha property running sheep, beef and dairy through Taratahi. “We have 60ha cropping and regrassing,
and this farm has been in the family for more than 100 years. It is a breeding and finishing farm, and the family have been slowly making the farm more intense over the years. “I am loving it here working alongside the manager and owner. At home, my dad runs dairy grazers and does cropping on our 1,000 acre property. The farm has diversified over the years and included running sheep and bulls,” says Xanthea. Shawn also attended Taratahi when he was 16 years old, along with his
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