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I have been farming all my working life in partnership with my brother Graeme in a family company known as V.Q. Sutton & Sons Ltd. While I managed our town supply dairy farm in Redwood Valley, west of Nelson, Graeme managed our sheep and beef farm at Kikiwa, near Nelson Lakes. With the impending deregulation of the town supply industry and the growing realisation that our assets were held in high-value Nelson land, we diversified into horticulture, establishing 5 ha of kiwifruit, but we soon realised our strengths were in grassland farming. As a result we began to look for dairying opportunities in Golden Bay and on the West Coast, but were persuaded by our accountant to look at North Canterbury properties, as this area offered the scope and controlled water supply that was lacking in other regions. In January 1993, we purchased “Inniskillen”, a 706 ha sheep and ebef property. In the following 7 months we converted the property to three dairy units, of about 200 effective hectares each with a 50% sharemilker. While the dairy farms were in development I lived at Inniskillen and supervised the project. Along with Graeme, I manage Inniskillen Farms Ltd today. In 1994 we sold our sheep and beef farm in Nelson, and a year later we purchased another property in Culverden known as “Braeside”. This is being converted into two dairy units, ready for milking in spring 1996. Both Graeme and I have supervised this conversion project.

Successful North Canterbury dairy conversion with quality pasture of nil endophyte ryegrass