Land and Tenure 391.64 Hectares (967.4 acres) approx. on 3 Titles. Home 191Ha, Skeers:
82.64Ha McArthurs 118Ha.
Location Ideally situated only 24 kilometres approx. Northwest of the regional centre of Millicent.
Services STD Phone, mobile phone, power, medical, educational, shopping and business supplies at neighbouring Millicent. Regular Rex airline flights to and from Mount Gambier daily.
Country Principally rich black to grey sandy loam flats to some outcrops of higher ground.
Water Bores with windmills and a submersible pressure pump to a 45,000 litre tank at the homestead.
Water Allocation Holding water licence of 225,100KL for irrigation, has no value until converted to a taking licence.
Rainfall 700mm average annual rainfall
Cultivation In 2010 there was 870 acres under crop to wheat, barley and broad beans.
Fencing Property fenced into 11 main paddocks plus 3 smaller holding paddocks. Quality fencing, some new. Principally creosote post, plain wire or mesh with barb and droppers.
Improvements Original stone home with timber frame extension offering kitchen / dine, spacious lounge room, 3 bedrooms, plus wet areas and slow combustion heating. Established areas of lawns, shrubs and established trees.
Other Improvements Near new open fronted Magnus 42.6m x 12m shed on a rubble base, Two stand galvanised clad shearing shed, steel sheep yards. Magnus steel panel cattle yards with semi curved race and loading ramp. Works 300 head approx. Two bay concrete holding bunkers, chemical shed. Near new set of steel sheep yards at Skeers, hold 2,000 sheep approx.
Pastoral Operation Based on the growing of cereal and pulse crops along with the sale of straw and hay. In previous years either store lambs have been purchased, run on stubbles and sold to the trade or steers have been purchased and turned off later.
Comments The Zadow family pastoral operation is a well located property offering a secure future for cash crop production, grazing of sheep and cattle.
Quality Country in the tightly held Hundred of Thornlea.
RLA 314