This Burdekin River bank farm is very well located just out of Ayr, it has excellent access off the main Dalbeg Road, it has some of the cheapest water available and is all rich river loams.
Area and Tenure: 97.98 ha or 242.11 acres. Freehold and zoned Rural.
Location: Perfectly located on the banks of the Burdekin River and just 7km to the Clare shop, social club and Primary School and 20km to Ayr. The Airville Primary School is about 10km toward Ayr. Ayr has about 8500 people with many medical facilities and schools as well as 2 large supermarkets and a wide variety of specialty shops.
Townsville is 1 hours drive to the North and Bowen 1 hour South.
Improvements: There is an 80ft x 30ft steel shed which is open on 2 sides.
Services: The farm has 3-phase power and bitumen road frontage.
Water: The main irrigation supply comes from the river via a 6×7 Kelly and Lewis pump with a 3-phase electric motor pumping approximately 80,000ga/hr. The 650ML allocation is charged at the Riparian River rate of $14/ML including allocation and usage charges. This is pumped to 4 concrete risers along one side and 2 along the river bank. The main line of underground pipe has 8 outlets and consists of 440ft of Asbestos pipe and 440ft of cement pipe, all in good condition. The river bank line has 4 outlets and has 220ft of 15in and 220ft of 12in Ultrarib PVC pipe.
There is also a bore at the other end of the farm with a 69ML allocation supplying the shed. It has a 2HP submersible electric motor pumping good quality water from 30ft.
Soil: All the soil is fertile river loams capable of growing any crop suited to the North Queensland sub-tropical climate. It is completely laser leveled with all the drills running one way with the majority being a similar length of about 770ft. The farm has grown a wide variety of vegetable crops, corn as well as sugar cane.
Crop and Machinery: There is no crop or machinery included.
Price: $1,650,000
Contact: Jack Slaney 0427 877 522
Raine and Horne Ayr
Office 07 4783 7522
Email: ayr@rhq.com.au