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Royalburn Station is one of the oldest farms in New Zealand. Founded in 1887 by William McKibbon, its pioneering heritage is steeped in grain – growing wheat and barley for the gold miners’ and early settlers’ essentials of bread and beer. 

Royalburn covers 1,200 acres, positioned on the flat to rolling area known as the Crown Terrace on the Crown Range Road that winds between Arrowtown and Wanaka. We’re truly an alpine farm, ranging from 600 to 1,000 metres above sea level. Our climate could be described as semi-arid, with plummeting temperatures and snow in winter, and dry, scorching hot days in summer. 

We’re blessed to have silt-based barrhill soils that are incredibly fertile and well suited to growing cereals and seeds. With a nod to Mr Mckibbin’s interest in grain over one hundred years ago, we’ve continued to build on that arable production. Today we grow more than seven hundred tonnes of various spray-free seeds and cereals such as sunflowers, wheat, barley and peas annually. 

Royalburn Station is one of the oldest farms in New Zealand. Founded in 1887 by William McKibbon, its pioneering heritage is steeped in grain – growing wheat and barley for the gold miners’ and early settlers’ essentials of bread and beer. 

Royalburn covers 1,200 acres, positioned on the flat to rolling area known as the Crown Terrace on the Crown Range Road that winds between Arrowtown and Wanaka. We’re truly an alpine farm, ranging from 600 to 1,000 metres above sea level. Our climate could be described as semi-arid, with plummeting temperatures and snow in winter, and dry, scorching hot days in summer. 

We’re blessed to have silt-based barrhill soils that are incredibly fertile and well suited to growing cereals and seeds. With a nod to Mr Mckibbin’s interest in grain over one hundred years ago, we’ve continued to build on that arable production. Today we grow more than seven hundred tonnes of various spray-free seeds and cereals such as sunflowers, wheat, barley and peas annually. 

Royalburn Station is one of the oldest farms in New Zealand. Founded in 1887 by William McKibbon, its pioneering heritage is steeped in grain – growing wheat and barley for the gold miners’ and early settlers’ essentials of bread and beer. 

Royalburn covers 1,200 acres, positioned on the flat to rolling area known as the Crown Terrace on the Crown Range Road that winds between Arrowtown and Wanaka. We’re truly an alpine farm, ranging from 600 to 1,000 metres above sea level. Our climate could be described as semi-arid, with plummeting temperatures and snow in winter, and dry, scorching hot days in summer. 

We’re blessed to have silt-based barrhill soils that are incredibly fertile and well suited to growing cereals and seeds. With a nod to Mr Mckibbin’s interest in grain over one hundred years ago, we’ve continued to build on that arable production. Today we grow more than seven hundred tonnes of various spray-free seeds and cereals such as sunflowers, wheat, barley and peas annually.