This farm is being offered on a W.I.W.O. basis which includes the 2008 crop (crop can be excluded if required and price adjusted) approx 27,000 Tonnes and all Machinery. This is a well laid out farm on 8 titles with 4 houses and 5 sheds with access to both channel and underground water and would be a great opportunity for a buyer who needs a larger farm. Water for irrigation is supplied by 10 pumps – 4 supplying channel water and 6 supplying underground water giving plenty of capacity for irrigation cycles.
Location: Approx. 28 km South West of Ayr and 75 km South East of Townsville.
Area: 295.21 Ha (729.46 Acres)
Tenure: Freehold on 8 titles.
Services: Power 3 Phase, Phone, Bitumen Road frontage and access to all blocks, Garbage Collection.
Burdekin Shire Council rates of $29,948.91 collectively.
Improvements: 4 Houses each with their own shed, all with 3 phase power and one shed on its own with no power. 1 x low set 3 bedroom brick house, 1 x 4 bedroom highset house, 1 x 4 bedroom lowest fibro house and 1 x 4 bedroom weatherboard house. 4 x irrigation pumps supplying channel water, 1x Crompton 6 inch turbine with 25 hp motor 30,000 gph, 1x 60 foot well Gasket & Giles 6 inch centrifugal with 25 hp motor 30,000 gph, 1 x 60 foot well Gasket & Giles 4 inch centrifugal with 15 hp motor 10,000 gph, and 1x 60 foot well Gasket & Giles 6 inch centrifugal with 25 hp motor 30,000 gph. 6 irrigation pumps supplying under ground 1 x Ornell turbine 6 inch angle drive with 50 hp motor 30,000 gph, 1 x 60 foot well Ken & Lewis 6 inch with 25 hp motor 30,000 gph, 1 x gasket & Giles 6 inch turbine with 25 hp motor 25,000 gph, 1 x Gasket & Giles 6 inch turbine with 25 hp motor 20,000 gph, 1 x Grunfos 6 inch submersible with 25 hp motor 30,000 gph, and 1 x 60 foot well 6 inch Crompton centrifugal with 25 hp motor 25,000 gph.
Water: Channel and underground allocation, Channel allocation of 699 Megalitres @ $44.40 per meg. And underground allocation of 967 Megalitres @ $ 450 per annum per license plus pumping costs (no cost per meg). Extra water can be applied for and accessed from underground as required, only extra cost being pumping costs.
Soil: The majority of the farm is a Brown duplex soil 2Dbd type with a small area of Grey- Brown duplex 6Dyg type both are medium textured soils.
Price: Offers Invited
Contact: Raine & Horne Ayr
Jack Slaney: 0427 877522
Phone: 07 4783 7522
Email: ayr@rhq.com.au