Aquila Sustainable Farming (ASF) is a subsidiary of the German based Aquila Capital, who invested in six New Zealand dairy farms in 2011 and then converted them to EU-certified organic in 2016. ASF oversees the whole operation, and they are in charge of all the organic compliance and the profitability of the dairy farms. ASF is located in Southland and is managed by; Jessica Craig the General Manager, Jason Craig the Compliance Leader and Strahan McCallum the Operations Manager.
Their portfolio is made up of six dairy farms, compromising nine milking sheds and four support blocks which are used to support winter grazing, harvesting supplements and youngstock grazing. The infrastructure across the farms include eight rotary sheds, one herringbone shed, and one herd home located on one of the farms.
The teams on the farm are made up of 4-5 staff on each platform. Their herds range from 400-850 cows, bringing their whole herd across farms to around 5200 cows. ASF is the largest single supplier of A2 organic milk in New Zealand, and likely one of the largest in the Southern Hemisphere.