We are proud of our land and manage it as well as we can to preserve the rich but highly erodible basalt soils. In years past we have cropped for wheat, barley, oats, canola, lupins, faba beans, sorghum, lucerne for hay and run a Lincoln Red Cattle stud, a merino wool enterprise and had fat lambs.

These days we have simplified our mix to 2 complimentary enterprises, beef cattle and open range eggs. Very little if any of Papanui is now cropped. Our soils are managed to provide a high degree of soil cover, we aim to have 100% coverage with plants and leaf litter, although this has been unachievable in recent years due to the long running drought.