Forestry

Total land area of 523ha

Ue Pango - Hancock Timber Resource Group

Paatara was one of the 7 unamalgamated blocks that formedRangitoto Tuhua 74B 6G Incorporated. In 1958 Kahumako Utiku and Mika te Rehu, the owners of Paatara, decided to retain it for themselves rather than it becoming part of Te Uranga B2 Incorporation.

In 2006, now a dairy farm, Paatara was offered to the Incorporation. It was duly purchased and the Inc. was very happy to have it again as part of its ancestral lands.

The 120 hectare dairy unit is managed by Dean and Lucy Marshall under a 50/50 sharemilking contract with the Inc. They have a Friesian x Jersey herd of 360 cows that they milk through a 30-aside herringbone shed. The forecast production for this season is 125,000 kilograms of milk solids that is achieved on a primarily grassed based system with minimal supplement imported. This system provides an excellent balance between financial return and environmental responsibility. 

Milk is supplied to Miraka

In 2012 a new effluent pond was installed. It is capable of holding up to 60 days (1.3 million litres) of cowshed effluent. The enables the effluent to be spread at the best time to make full use of the nutrients, and to ensure the effluent is handled in the most environmentally friendly manner possible.