DIAMOND DOWNS KILCUMMIN DIAMOND DOWNS ROAD CLERMONT QLD 4721
Price $2,250,000 bare of crop and plant
1,664* ha (4,111* ac)
Lot 2 RP836969 Isaac Regional Council
Which includes 566*ha (2,600* acres) of contoured farming country and 611*ha (1,511*acres) grazing country
The improvements on the property are adequate to operate the property as a mixed farming and grazing property.
The property has received over 8*inches of rain since June/July 2016 and is currently holding a full profile of moisture.
566*ha (1,400*acres) of wheat and 485*ha (1,200*acres) of ratooned sorghum are the current crops on the property.
The property has been de-stocked since January 2016
*Note* The property is being sold bare of crop and plant.
LOCATION
Situated approximately 90* Klms north east of Clermont via the Kilcummin Downs Road 190* Klms north east of Emerald and 250* Klms west of Mackay.
SERVICES
Services include rural power, telephone, mobile service, twice weekly mail and 40 Klms of gravel road to the Kilcummin state primary school. Clermont has secondary schooling and all other amenities to be expected in a small country town including a hospital.
Emerald is considered the main service town for the Central Highlands with all services expected for a major regional rural town inclusive of but not limited to regional hospital, public and private schools, major banks and credit unions, accountants and solicitors, 3 shopping centres, airport and numerous sporting activities
COUNTRY TYPE
The country on Diamond Downs is predominately 70%* cleared undulating downs, interspersed with an area of approximately 30%* scrub country. Timbers include Brigalow, Yellowwood, Gidgee, Boree and Coolibah. The soil ranges from self mulching heavy black to black loam with different shades of chocolate and scattered areas of red tone.
FARMING COUNTRY
Diamond Downs comprises 1,052* ha (2,600*ac) of developed contoured farming country. Current crops include 566* ha (1,400*acres) of wheat, and 485*ha (1,200* acres) of ratooned sorghum. The balance of the country on the property, being 611* ha (1,511* ac), is grazing country. 133* ha (330*acres) of black soil brigalow country has been grass lands. The balance of the country is made up of natural water ways, headlands and areas of slight timber regrowth. A good body of ground feed is present with the property being de-stocked in January 2016
WATER
The water improvements on Diamond Downs includes 3 dams, the main dam is equipped with a mill and also a mechanical pump to a turkey's nest and reticulated to a trough system. Water is also pumped via the main dam to the homestead. The other two dams include a share dam on the north eastern boundary, and a small open dam on the front cultivation country. The homestead complex has in total 110,000 litres of water storage available.
RAINFALL 610* millimeters (24*inches)
FENCING
The property is fenced with a mix of 3 & 4 barb with steel and timber posts in fair to good condition. The internal fencing is a mixture of 3 & 4 barb on both steel post and timer fence lines, with internal subdivision and laneways of plain wire and electric fencing.
