LOCATION: Poplar Farm' is located about 16km south of Jondaryan and the Warrego Highway, 50km west of Toowoomba and about 55 south east of Dalby with bitumen frontage to Jondaryan Evanslea Road
SERVICES: Mains 3 phase power, landline telephone, mail service, Jondaryan and school bus service
AREA: 456.554 hectares (1128 acres)
RPD: Lot 2 RP60395, Lot 2 RP51396 and Lot 46 on Crown Plan N25156
COUNTRY: Poplar Farm is regarded as one of the best dryland farming properties on the Darling Downs. The property is all the finest quality deep self mulching Waco' clay soils. The total area except around the buildings is farmed and strip cropped.
112ha (276 acres) is fallow (barley Nov 11) and fertilized with 70kg Nitrogen per hectare, 30ha (74 acres) is fallow (sorghum March 2011) and fertlised with 60kg Nitrogen/ha
IMPROVEMENTS:
HOMESTEAD: Poplar Farm' residence boasts four bedrooms, office, living, dining, rumpus room with a modern kitchen and bathrooms. The home also has a fire place timber and cork floor coverings and split system air conditioning. The home is set in a peaceful well established garden setting with the added features of inground pool and tennis court, also includes tanks and pressure pump.
Car Garage, located near the residence is modern colourbond 3 bay garage with roller doors, concrete floor
Machinery Shed with a floor area of 294m2 consists of reinforced concrete floor, steel portal frame and fully enclosed with corrugated iron with sliding doors. 3 phase power and lights are, connected and 22500 litre poly tank.
Machinery Shed with a floor area 245m2 earth floor timber construction and enclosed with corrugated iron. This is an older style machinery shed.
Open Machinery Shed: with a floor area 175 m2 earth floor and constructed with timber trusses and steel beams and enclosed with corrugated iron on the sides.
Barn approx area 58m2 set on low timber stumps, timber frame and enclosed with corrugated iron
Silo Complex: silos consist of 2 x 220 tonne and 1 x 120 tonne with concrete bases, sweeps, 2 with aerators
In addition there are 4 older dryer silos, enclosed by a steel portal frame shed
Water: in addition to water tanks there is a domestic bore with electric submersible and earth dam
COMMENTS: Under the guidance of well known farming pioneer Hector Tod Poplar Farm' was the birth place of strip crop farming on the flood plains of the Darling Downs.
Under the stewardship of the current owners the Speed Family, Poplar Farm has won numerous cropping awards with yields of over 10 bales per hectare of cotton and the family has grown sorghum and corn crops which have yielded 10 tonne per hectare.
No wonder a former CSIRO soil scientist commented that this Waco' soil type found on Poplar Farm is the best soil type for growing grain crops in Australia. This is the most reliable farming country on the Downs Buyers you may have seen others but this is the best'
