Extensively developed low cost irrigation & grazing property situated in a tightly held area with the same family ownership for over 100 years.
• 857ha (2,118 acres) across 4 freehold titles currently used for backgrounding & fattening cattle
• Predominantly dark, deep cracking, self-mulching clay soils + 238ha* of decomposed basalt bisecting the property
• Extensively developed for water distribution & to allow for low-cost irrigation by using Keyline Principles
• Use of overland flow catchment & gravity fed flood irrigation means minimal pumping is required
• A system of swales & head ditches for floor irrigation directs water throughout the property
• 2 irrigation dams with 650ML & 1200ML capacity which fills from overland flow
• Frontage to Barambah Creek with water harvesting licence - water is delivered into the system via a 12inch electric submersible pump with a centrifugal booster (approx. 600,000L/hr)
• 100ML turkeys nest to store flood lifted water from Barambah Creek
• 660 acres* currently under irrigation planted to Pitted Bluegrass mixed with Creeping Blue & Rhodes Grass plus Leucaena
• Owner estimates carrying capacity of 650AE in average year
• Fenced into 30 paddocks including 3 small holding paddocks - laneways lead from all paddocks to the yards for ease of mustering
• Cable & steel panel cattle yards with single cattle ramp, round handling yard & Bud box forcing pen with a circular crush
• 4 bay Zincalume shed - 1 bay enclosed with concrete floor, 20m x 20m Zincalume hay shed, 2x grain silos
• Property has just received 4 inches of rain
• Located 15 minutes to Gayndah, 2.5 hours to the Sunshine Coast & 3.5 hours to Brisbane
This is an exceptional opportunity to secure an extensively developed, low cost irrigation & grazing property.
A detailed Information Memorandum for the property is available upon request.
Listed exclusively with Ray White Rural Mundubbera.
