AREA and TENURE: 3,064.33 Hectares (7,572 Acres) Freehold. Lot 20 on CVN328, Parish of Minnel, Goondiwindi Regional Council. Rates $5361.38 per year approximately.
SITUATION: 16km north of Toobeah on Toobeah-Lundavra Road. Approximately 60km west of Goondiwindi, 300km west of Toowoomba.
SERVICES: Bitumen road frontage. Mail twice weekly. Rural power. STD telephone. Television reception. 8km to school bus to primary school at Lundavra (30km to Lundavra). Primary and secondary schools at Goondiwindi with bus service from Toobeah. Grain depots at Toobeah and Goondiwindi. Livestock selling centres at Goondiwindi, Dalby and Toowoomba.
COUNTRY: Flat to slightly undulating heavy black/grey belah brigalow myall soils running to grey coolibah broadleaf box sandalwood loams and small areas of sand ridge with carbean, bloodwood and cypress pine.
Well grassed with Blue grass, Mitchell grass buffel and native summer grasses, with areas of Bambatsi, Premier Digitaria, medics and herbages in season. This country benefits from low level flooding after major rainfall.
WATER: Uragra Creek with semi-permanent water holes flows through the property. Some stock dams fill by overland flow from Minnel Creek, which also provides beneficial low level flooding after major rainfall. Stock dams with windmills pumping to tanks and troughs. The windmills have been recently overhauled and new pumps fitted, and also two new solar pumps installed.
RAINFALL: Approximately 23 inch (575mm) annual average.
CULTIVATION: Approximately 2,000 acres has been farmed, currently with 800 acres sorghum stubble and 440 acres fallow after sorghum harvested in 2011. Approximately 2,500 acres of heavy black/grey country has been pulled ready to rake.
FENCING: Subdivided into 20 paddocks and 2 holding paddocks. Internal fencing new steel post with plain and barb to original wooden post with netting and barb. Boundary fencing new steel post with plain and barb to original netting and barb. All in stock proof condition with a substantial amount of new fencing.
CARRYING CAPACITY: Owners estimate carrying 500 breeders plus replacement heifers.
IMPROVEMENTS: Original timber 4 bedroom homestead, formal lounge with open fireplace, living room, 2 bathrooms, screened verandahs, reverse cycle air conditioning. 2 bedroom maids wing with bathroom and toilet. Outbuildings including meat house, workshop and garage, all set in established gardens. 3 bedroom workers cottage. Grain shed and 3 bay storage shed. 6 stand shearing shed with sheep yards. Redesigned and rebuilt portable steel cattle yards. Older timber cattle yards.
PRICE: Vendors require quick sale to dissolve partnership – will consider all genuine offers over $2.2M.
REMARKS: Minnel has been in the one family for over 60 years. The property is well located to all amenities and ideally suited for breeding, backgrounding or as additional area to be utilised as a depot.
The above report has been prepared by us on information we have obtained and while we trust it to be correct, it is not guaranteed by us and prospective purchasers must rely on their own enquiries.