Piñera
Overview
A livestock property of 2,881 hectares in the Piñera area, Paysandú department, Uruguay. Gently rolling terrain over basalt soils, ideal scale for a cow-calf and sheep breeding system.
40% of the farm is deep to medium basalt, with forage improvement potential, while the rest is shallow basalt with natural grassland. Currently breeding an average of 900 Hereford cows, retaining nearly all female calves; steer calves go, on average, 2 years to finishing elsewhere.
Average stocking rate of 0.6 animal units, with more than 2,000 cattle head across all categories, 500 Merino sheep and 40 horses.
Farm Structure
Land Use
Cow-calf and sheep breeding, with 404 ha of excellent backgrounding / crop-forage potential, 749 ha of breeding-and-growing land and 1,728 ha of cow-calf and sheep land on shallow basalt.
Stock
900 Hereford breeding cows on average, more than 2,000 cattle head across all categories, 500 Merino sheep and 40 horses.
Access
From Piñera via Route 25, 15 km on the road to Cuchilla del Fuego, crossing the Andrés Pérez bridge over the Queguay river, then 4 km on a year-round passable track. 30 km from Guichón, 90 km from Young, 110 km from Paysandú and 370 km from Montevideo.
The Investment Case
Piñera offers uncommon scale (2,881 ha) for a long-cycle breeding operation on basalt, with an established Hereford herd and forage-improvement potential across 40% of the area. Suited to continuing the current breeding program or intensifying with pasture investment.
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