· 4000 cattle and plant included in sale· 13000 tonne cane producer· Irrigation expansion potentialINKERMAN STATION LOCATION: 15 km south of Home Hill, 110 km south east of Townsville, 3 km to bitumen Bruce Highway. AREA AND TENURE: 16,820 hectares or 41,563 acres held in 17 Freehold titles and one Term Lease. SERVICES: Telephone, rural power, TV reception, primary and secondary schooling at Home Hill, daily mail service. RAINFALL: Annual average 900 mm or 36 inches. COUNTRY: Inkerman comprises a mix of country types from black cracking clay soils along fertile creek frontages in the north and east timbered by Moreton Bay Ash and coolabah, also red loam and chocolate soils with poplar gum and bloodwood running to a line of low hills with scattered rocky outcrops and an area of red pebbly soil tableland of bloodwood and ironbark with black ti tree gullies and box hollows in the south. Some 155 hectares of the heavier soil areas are cultivated to irrigated sugar cane with average annual production of about 13,000 tonnes. The balance of the property is proven strong grazing country with over 5,000 hectares cleared or timber treated and is well grassed by Indian couch, urochloa and seca stylo plus native blue and spear grasses. There is a 200 acre para grass swamp adjoining the house lagoon. A permit for further clearing of vegetation over 347 hectares is in place. WATER: The northern portion of the property is intersected by a series of lagoons and watercourses which form part of the Burdekin irrigation system and these channels are also utilised for domestic and local stock water. The balance of the grazing country is watered by 10 bores with good supply at shallow depths equipped by jetpumps or windmills. There are also nine open dams and a number of seasonal springs in the creeks rising in the range country. IRRIGATION: The farming areas of Inkerman are within the South Burdekin Water Board area and the property has an entitlement to pump from both underground supply and from open water in channels and lagoons. There is a total of 7 pumping facilities all either connected to mains power or in the process of being converted from diesel pumping sites. WATER FOR BOWEN PROJECT: The property stands to benefit from this State Government project under which Sunwater will build a channel commencing in 2010 to supply up to 60,000 megalitres per year from the Burdekin River to the Bowen region. This channel will bisect Inkerman along a path skirting the low line of hills in the centre of the property. Inkerman Station is a Foundation Customer of this scheme and as such will benefit in terms of water allocation which will allow for development of large areas of suitable land possibly up to 5,000 acres for irrigated cultivation. STRUCTURES: An impressive homestead complex features a modern four bedroom brick home in attractive garden surrounds, a second staff house plus several storage or machinery sheds, also a substantial set of steel cattle yards with working capacity of 1,000 head and equipped with all necessary handling facilities. There is a second set of functional yards on the southern end of the run and the property is fully boundary fenced and subdivided internally into 15 main grazing paddocks plus numerous smaller holding paddocks and lanes, with all fencing in good working order. CARRYING CAPACITY: Inkerman is currently running 4,000 mixed cattle with grass in reserve and this stocking rate has been proven over many years. STOCK AND PLANT: Inkerman will be offered as a fully operational going concern with 4,000 good quality Droughtmaster cattle, also 70 camels used for woody weed control and all working plant including cultivation equipment. Inkerman Station is a truly unique multi opportunity property featuring productive cattle and cane operations and has unlimited future development potential.