With an estimated net worth to the buyer of over $350,000 in this years cane crop this farm is well layed out, has excellent improvements and is well priced. Location: Situated 60 kms south of Townsville and 27 kms north of Ayr on the Bruce Highway. Area: Lot 12 & 13 are166.5 hectares (411 acres) total of which 146.39 (361 acres) is under cultivation. Lot 23 is 3.3 hectare (8 ac) and is not cultivated and has the house and shed on it. The two titles can be sold together or separately. Tenure: Lot 12,13 & 23 are all freehold Rates: The Burdekin Shire rates for Lot 12&13 are $11,939.94 and for Lot 23 are $692.19. Services: The farm has bitumen road frontage to both Bartlett Road and the bruce Highway, weekly garbage collection, 3-phase power with a primary school, shop and postal agency in Giru. Secondary schools in Townsville and Ayr along with two large supermarkets and a large variety of specialty stores. Ayr has a population of over 8500 with 20,000 people in the Burdekin Shire. Townsville’s population has rapidly grown to 180,000 with a large government and industrial based economy. Water: Water allocation is 1200 Mega litres of channel supply and 60 mega litres underground as well as re-cycling from re-cycle pit. The channel water is under the control of Sunwater while the underground is under D.N.R. control. Water licences are with Sunwater and costs approx. $44/ML GST inclusive. Soil: Generally black Barratta clay soil that has been completely laser levelled and is flood irrigated. The farming area has full containment and facilities to be watered efficiently and is a large rectangle block laid out so as to have no angle drills enabling it to be farmed with ease. Improvements: There is one well presented lowset brick 3 bedroom home and a large machinery shed 540 sq metres with a gantry bay running the full width of the shed and has been constructed to withstand the most extreme conditions (built like the proverbial brick ………). Crop & Machinery: The farm is for sale with the sugar cane crop only and no machinery is included. Estimate for 2007 crop is 17,000 to 18,000 tonnes. Price: $3,291,372 for the farm & crop plus $420,000 for the house & shed. Notes: Although production has been back around 16,000 tonnes over the last three years due to short season and illness of owner this is normally a high production farm producing in excess of 20,000 tonnes.