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Glen Eden Farms Ltd

  • Martinborough, New Zealand

Glen Eden Farms Ltd is a 1430ha diverse farming business located near Martinborough, in central Wairarapa.   

We winter approx. 13000su.  This number is highly flexible given our climate.  We use numerous methods to match pasture supply and demand, such as trading stock, feed crops, irrigation, grazing on and off and feeding supplements.

We currently finish approx. 12,000 lambs per year to 21kgCW, with all supplied to Atkins Ranch.    Lambs are supplied all year round. We were third in their supplier of the year awards last year.  We have a small group of store lamb suppliers, where we source 80% of our store lambs depending on the season.

We were fortunate to win the Greater Wellington Ballance Farm Environment Awards as the Supreme Winner in 2025.  We had category awards in

We buy in approx. 750 trade cattle in the spring & summer, a mix of steers, bulls and heifers where we see a margin.  Most of these are gone either to slaughter. 

Home bred calves are carried through to sell before their second winter ideally but are a flexible stock class as we can sell them as weaners or yearlings as well.

We usually grow a variety of cash crops which are predominantly grown under irrigation on the river flats. However, this area there is only about 50ha of maize & peas due to livestock margins being better. Historically maize grain, sweetcorn/maize seed, squash, peas, ryegrass seed and red clover seed have been grown. Some typical yields are; maize grain 13t/ha, squash 25t/ha, grass seed 2t/ha.

In addition to this, there are about 200ha of various high-quality animal forage mixes, such as chicory, rape, kale, plantain, and red clover.

For a detailed property report please make contact with Mark via email or phone

Feb 15, 2026
Full time
Shepherd
$50,000 - $75,000 yearly
Glen Eden Farms Ltd Martinborough, New Zealand
We are excited to be looking for a Shepherd to join our team at Glen Eden. If you’re keen to be involved in a forward thinking and successful business, that will give you space and flexibility to do your job well and enjoy life at the same time, then this job could be for you.   This role is part of a team of four, so you’ll have support and training should you need it and enough space to exercise your budding management skills and give your dogs plenty of work. We will provide all the necessary equipment and gear; you just need to bring your dogs and an enquiring mind.   We run a diverse sheep & beef, arable and tourism business which covers a total of 1430ha. The business is run as three blocks - Glen Eden 650ha, Ngakouka 500ha and Awatane 280ha which are all within 5 minutes quadbike driving distance from each other. The Successful Applicant: We'd like a shepherd that isn't afraid to ask questions and someone with initiative, intelligence, and the...