Argentum has been home of a Charolais stud for the past 15 years. It has been developed by the absentee owners and the manager into a very good cattle block with good water and improvements. It is offered with extensive plant and all cattle to complete a dispersal of the owner's final asset.
Area:
336.63 Hectares (831 acres) in 7 Freehold titles
Location
The aggregation is centrally located just West of Gympie
• 7km Woolooga
• 43km Gympie
• 107km Hervey Bay
• 108km Noosa Heads
• 209km Brisbane International Airport
• 211km Brisbane CBD
The property has excellent road access from the Bauple - Woolooga Road, Pikes Road and The Broweena Road.
The Wide Bay creek flats have previously been utilised for fodder cropping, vegetables and lucerne. In more recent times fodder cropping for cattle has been instigated.
Water
There is an irrigation licence which has historically been used for small crops.
Stock water is pumped to a 92,000Litre tank and gravity fed through troughs across the majority of the paddocks. Each of the major grazing paddocks also has surface water through dams.
Country
The property is a mixture of country from sweet soft creek flats to granite outcrop ridges. Soils are predominantly granite and basalt and the creek flats deep alluvial chocolate loams. The country is carrying an excellent body of rhodes grass and native pastures.
Fencing and Yards
The majority of the fencing is 4 barb and in good order. The property is split into 14 main paddocks with a laneway providing access from cattleyards at the Northern and Southern ends of the property. The cattle yards are both steel panel with coolers attached. The Southern yards have a 5 way draft and calf facilities.
Houses
The main homestead has 7 bedrooms and is split into a 5 bedroom main home and a 2 bedroom granny flat. It has good North East aspect from the full length verandah at the front of the home and there is a pool at the rear. The large carshed has room for 4 cars and also has a single bedroom flat for overnight stays.
The Manager's residence sits on the site of the Cobb and Co stop. The original Queenslander has the expected layout of 4 rooms and a kitchen and presents in good order with its 2 side verandahs. It is full height underneath.
The homes have separate entrances and are private from each other with Wide Bay creek separating them.
Cobb and Co.
The property sits on the National Trail and has a small original 1 room cottage and feed shed that may date back to the Cobb and Co era.
Plant and Equipment
The property comes with full list of plant and approximately 100 mixed cattle
Argentum has been developed into a very good holding just 20 minutes from the thriving Gympie township. The owners have moved on and seek to dispose of their final joint asset and offer the chance to buy a very good property with management in place if required.
