John and Yvonne McCaskie owned a 24 hectare farm 18 kilometres east of Feilding in the Manawatu. Subdivided into nine paddocks, all of flat contour, they wintered approximately 50 two-year-old steers on the farm, with 100 to 120 steers traded in a full year. Wayne Brooks of PGG Wrightson Real Estate, Feilding marketed the farm, taking it to auction in late July 2015, where it sold under the hammer to a neighbouring dairy farmer for $1.15 million.
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