*Now Available in 2 Lots:

1. Como (722 Ha or 1783 Ac) $3.0m
2. Byfield (200.5 Ha or 495 Ac) $900,000

As a whole $3.9m

An excellent high rainfall cropping property utilising best practise precision farming techniques.

Como and Byfield are two properties adjoining located just 3km south of Balmoral, 75km from Horsham and 56km from Hamilton.

Rainfall approximately 550mm to 600mm annual average rainfall.

Majority heavy red to brown loams over clay being undulating to slightly undulating country. Well drained. Highly fertile and productive land developed for cropping. Could easily revert to mixed grazing enterprise. Vendor stimates approximately 95% arable.

Excellent fertiliser and lime/gypsum historyhigh analysis fertiliser and trace elements. High nutrient and moisture retention soils.

Production includes cereal, legumes and oilseed annual crops comprising Wheat, Oats for grain or hay, Canola, Vetch or Balansia, and grown in rotation. Opportune crops have included millett and safflower. Oats have ben utilised for green manuring being turned in.

The cropping regime has been undertaken with a view to embrace profitability and sustainability utilising best practice methods. Stubble retention has been a priority in order to build soil carbon and general nutrients.

All this is facilitated utilising modern technology including direct drill precision farming incorporating GPS navigation systems. These techniques are also utilised on spray and harvest machinery.

This approach is yielding excellent results.

Como and Byfield have undergone major soil improvement, pasture weed eradication and timber clean up programmes. With excellent livestock water points and fencing, the property is at an excellent starting point for a high capacity livestock operation utilising modern pasture species.

Stock water supplied by dams. Bores are in place but not utilised. 10 x 5000 gallon poly rainwater tanks utilised for spray requirements.

Fenced into 16 main paddocks with average size approximately 50 Hectares. Materials include timber posts, cyclone and barb with swinging field gates. Approximately 30km of new fence in the past 5 years. Well maintained. Many shelter belts in place.

Improvements include 4 bedroom timber framed home, 12 silos comprising approximately 775 metric tonnes storage, 2 woolsheds and yards, hay sheds and machinery shedding. Neat and well maintained.

Ideally timbered with established Red Gums along with many newly established tree and shrub shelter belts.

All weather rubble pads.

Attention grain growershere is the opportunity to take advantage of seasonal differences this excellent crop conversion property offers. Equally well suited to intensive grazing with the addition of modern pasture species.

Full detailed property schedule available on request.