1728 Acres Highly Improved Mixed Farming Country
SHEEP: Prime Lambs – Woolgrowing
BEEF CATTLE: Breeding, Fattening & Back-grounding
CROPPING: Cereals & Oilseeds
DAIRY ASSIST: Fodder – Hay & Silage
LOCATION: Strategic to regional centres and markets - situated 56 kilometres by bitumen road to the north of Warrnambool (population 30,000); 6 kilometres to the south of Hexham and the Hamilton Highway. 23 km to Mortlake. An hours’ drive to Hamilton or two hours drive to Ballarat which both have busy livestock exchanges.
SERVICES: Warrnambool is a major regional hub with quality education including public / private primary & secondary schools plus a TAFE college and university campus, health services, agri-businesses, major livestock exchange, abattoirs, 3 main dairy factories, retail centre, banking, professional firms, sporting facilities.
Mortlake has a P-12 school, supermarkets, rural service stores, retail outlests, medical services, pharmacy, professional services, hotels, sporting facilities.
School busses closeby.
RAINFALL: 27” - 675 mm average p.a.
WATER: Recently upgraded secure stockwater system is a feature of the property - bore equipped with submersible pump and 30,000 gallon storage tank and a 27Ml catchment storage dam provide an interlinked reticulated stock water system, poly pipe lines are 3”, 2” & 1.5”, there are a further 8 windmills on bores with storage tanks ranging between 2,000 – 5,000 gallons plus 3 other storage dams of smaller capacity
SUBDIVISION: Conventional with electric hotwire assist. Wide steel double gateways. Extensive laneway system leading to 26 main grazing paddocks.
SHELTER: Established Cypress & Native plantations
SOIL TYPES: predominantly basalt origin grey/brown clay loams plus some heavier black clay loams, are of lunette banks,
TOPOGRAPHY: gently undulating to flat with approximately 1,000 acres suitable for fodder production & cropping
PASTURES: Majority renovated over last decade and re-sown to modern perennial ryegrasses & clovers. Extensive agronomic development – soil tests & paddock history available upon request.
HOME: comfortable 3 bedroom weatherboard dwelling, open plan kitchen/dining/living room, master bedroom with ensuite, combustion woodheater, reverse cycle air conditioner, garage with internal access to the house, nice rural landscape views from main living area and verandah
WORKING IMPROVEMENTS:
* 3 stand GI shearing shed (450 -500 wooly sheep holding capacity) & steel sheep-yards (600- 800 sheep working capacity) with three way draft 7 concreted drenching race
* Cattle handling complex: post & rail cattle-yards with a 100 head working capacity, undercover working area including a heavy duty cattle crush, heavy duty steel holding yards – stand out weaning capacity of 200
* Three haysheds
* Lock up vehicle shed / workshop, tractor shed, machinery shed
REMARKS
“Narong” is a well developed mixed farming property in good heart that features impressive infrastructure in first class order and offer diverse enterprise capability in a reliable high rainfall region.
The current owners have upgraded the property to a very high standard delivering enhanced operating efficiencies and improved production levels. The incoming new owner will have the opportunity to ‘hit the ground running’ as all the hard yards are done.
INSPECTION WILL NOT DISSAPOINT!
PLEASE NOTE: Adjoining 2200 acres also available for purchase.
CONTACT: For further information and / or to arrange an inspection please ring Tim Gladman on 0418 131 638
