62 | MEAT & WOOL » Matthew & Shona Tayler The station is run by Matthew and Shona Tayler and covers 5600 hectares of which 5300 hectares is Crown pastoral lease and the balance freehold. Russell Fredric Succession going well for the Tayler’s Lorne Peak station has added another farm to its already extensive hill country sheep and beef operation which lies near Garston, south of Lake Wakatipu. The station is run Matthew and Shona Tayler and covers 5600 hectares of which 5300 hectares is Crown pastoral lease and the balance freehold. The station has been in the family since 1960. The new farm was previously owned by Shona’s parents, Jim and Anne Moore, and was purchased through a succession plan two years ago. Located about half an hour’s drive southwest, the 600ha property is on flat to rolling contour, supporting 5000 ewes and a few bulls; it is summer safe which nicely complements the drier Lorne Peak climate. “It is used as a one year ewe block so all the full-mouth ewes from home are going down there to a terminal. This ensures a simple stock system, and that both farms complement each other. It’s potentially more of a finishing farm but until we do some pasture renewal, a breeding system is the best fit,” Matthew says. Kale and swede are grown on about 40 hectares, but he long term intention is to minimise or eliminate winter crop and run an all grass winter system. “It is quite a wet farm in the winter, so we need to be a bit more mindful of critical source areas. There are creeks that we will need to fence off and riparian plantings potentially for carbon credits.”
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