The farm is well designed with the 46ha (114 acres) of cultivated area being set out in two rectangular blocks both with 1000m drills making it easy to farm and irrigate.
Combine this with a modern 3 bedroom home and good sheds set well back off the highway makes for easy living.

Location: On the Bruce Highway 30kms North of Ayr and 57kms South Townsville.

Area: 50.62 ha (125 acres) of which 46.14ha (114 acres) are cultivated on 2 freehold titles.

Services: Bitumen road frontage, 3 phase power, weekly garbage collection and phone.

Improvements: A modern 3 bedroom home with double garage of concrete block construction and a newer 3 bay zinc alum machinery shed is located on a separate title (5 acres) adjoining Bruce Highway frontage with the house and shed set at rear of block, with the second older 4 bay machinery shed of corrugated iron construction adjoining on the second title. There is a variety of fruit trees growing on the front 5 acres with the remaining 120 acres of which 114 acres are cultivated under sugar cane.

Water: Sun Water Channel allocation of 380ML plus a further DNR allocation of 20ML of underground allocation on the front 5 acres with a nominal annual fee.
The farm is equipped with a 10in china pump powered by a 10hp electric motor delivering 110,000gph and a 6in submersible Southern Cross pump delivering 35,000gph. Irrigation of this farm can be done by gravity feed or pumped through at peak times by switching on the 10″ china pump which can deliver 110,000gph flow.
By being able to gravity feed the irrigation on the entire farm makes this a very cost effective way of irrigation with the pump only being used in peak periods.

Soil: The Grey Solidic soils are fully laser leveled and flood irrigated.

Price: $1,500,000 including crop and machinery

Machinery: Machinery includes a New Holland TS 125 4wd tractor (600 hrs), Fiat 1000 Super 4wd with forks, 600l 3 point linkage sprayer (6 row), Bonel 1t fertilizer box with trash incorporator, Massey 10 tyne scarifier, 800 l water tanker, 4t trailer, 1t bag lifter, trash rake, 5 furrow Hodge reversible, Napier 5 tyne ripper with crumble roller, Blueline 24 plate offset discs with crumble roller, single row cutaway with boards and discs, 3 point linkage 7ft back blade, strawberry harrows, 4 row hill-up bar, 2 row hill-up bar, Maxi Build 2 row multi cultivator.

Crop: Annual production is normally about 5000t of cane. Historical production figures are available on request.

Contact: Raine and Horne Ayr
Jack Slaney: 0427 877522
Phone: 07 4783 7522
Email: ayr@rhq.com.au