Owned by 2 Families Since 1939
Well developed irrigation, farming and grazing Goondiwindi district property
AREA and TENURE: Total area 1,424 Hectares (3,518 Acres) Freehold. Lots 24-25, 31-33 on MH230 and Lots 39-42, 46-47 on MH233 and Lot 1 on RL5450:RL25/5450, County of Marsh, Parish of Sands. Local Government area of Goondiwindi Regional Council. Rates approximately $3,500 twice yearly.
SITUATION: 7km off Cunningham Highway north of Yelarbon with all weather access. Approximately 48km northwest of Inglewood, 58km east of Goondiwindi.
SERVICES: Rural power. STD phone. 3G mobile service. Primary school at Yelarbon, secondary schools at Inglewood and Goondiwindi. Grain handling facilities and railway at Yelarbon. Two cotton gins at Goondiwindi. Well positioned to major feedlots. Livestock selling centres at Goondiwindi, Warwick and Toowoomba.
COUNTRY: Principally flat to undulating selectively cleared open brigalow belah wilga teatree country with soft grey self-mulching soils running to sandy loam. Approximately 660ha (1630ac) of grazing country with areas sown to improved pastures of premier digit, creeping bluegrass and silk sorghum.
WATER: 4 stock water bores (3 not being utilised at present). One equipped with electric submersible pump near house, feeding to 3 tanks, troughs and house via 2″ poly pipe, backed up by electric submersible pump on surge dam. Rainwater tanks with pressure pump at house.
RAINFALL: 625mm (25″) annual average.
CULTIVATION: 750ac fertile friable brigalow belah teatree soils currently under dryland cultivation, with a further 600ac approximately available which has previously been farmed and now under pasture grasses.
IRRIGATION: 540ac under irrigation with another 550 acres available to be developed. Average water take 550ML delivery per year, and further overland flow. Professionally designed and approved overland irrigation scheme with two catchments with average of three flows per year. 1000ML irrigation storage plus surge bank of 400/500ML currently irrigates approximately 218ha (540ac) via two 400m Zimmatic lateral move irrigators (with safety gear). 15″ reducing to 12″ underground mains powered by 307hp Deutz diesel motor with Kelly and Lewis 200×200 Hydro-Titan pump. 26″ flood pump powered by 300hp Volvo Penta diesel motor, lifting from main channel. Two lateral irrigators will water irrigation area over a 4 day period delivering 120 points. Fertiliser can be delivered through irrigation system. At present storage and surges all full capacity.
FENCING: Subdivided with internal 4 barb fencing into numerous paddocks for farming or grazing. 18-20km fencing (some internal and some boundary) recently renewed, including steel assemblies and steel gates.
CARRYING CAPACITY: 150 breeders and progeny on grazing land.
IMPROVEMENTS: Attractive Nu Steel brick home (double brick on western and southern sides), 4 bedrooms and office, large open living area, 2 bathrooms, polished timber floors, evaporative cooling, coldroom. Set in established gardens with pop-up sprinklers. Two car garage. Two machinery sheds 60×30, one concrete floor, one with 60×30 skillion. Steel and corrugated iron hay shed, enclosed three sides 1 x 100t silo, 3 x 40t silos. Timber cattle yards with ramp, branding cradle, crush and head bale.
REMARKS: “Belmore West” offers diversification and high returns due to a professionally designed irrigation system, soft grazing and farming country. The property lends itself to cotton, cereal crops and small crops, fattening and backgrounding, is well positioned to major feedlots, selling centres and cotton gins. The vendor, in 2006 won the Goondiwindi chickpea competition, in 2009 grew the best quality mung beans in the Bean Growers Australia competition, and last year cotton averaged 4.4 bales per acre.
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.