Dairy farmer Kees Zeestraten puts $54M Southland dairy business up for sale

Dairy farmer Kees Zeestraten puts $54M Southland dairy business up for sale
By Jonathan Underhill March 18 (BusinessDesk) - Kees Zeestraten, a dairy farmer who helped drive the push for intensive farming in Canterbury's Mackenzie country, has put a Southland farming business up for sale with a price tag of $54 million, aiming to put the funds into an even bigger dairy venture. The Amberley-based farmer is listed as sole shareholder of Southern Sights Ltd, which owns five adjoining dairy farms near Winton. The properties cover a total of 1,207 hectares and produced 1.48 million kilograms of milk solids from 3,620...