Very early district selection from 1926. Top quality mixed farming property with good facilities and located in a good reliable region of Western Australia. The property has the capacity of running ewes and cattle plus prime lambs, minimal cropping over the years with good results achieved in this area. Located in the Great Southern, close to Mt Barker, City of Albany and the prime Mt Barker & Porongurup wine region. Excellent features are minimal cropping, no high chemical exposure and good water supplies.
- Crop area at approximately 600 hectares plus some other grazing
- Great location only 75 km's from Albany and 60 East of Mt Barker
- Mixed soil types from lake bank country, sandy gravels, duplex with areas of sands
- Watered from 13 dams with most clean out over the last few years, 9 troughs & 1 soak
- Well fenced into 14 paddocks plus central laneway that feeds into the sheep and cattle yards. Running cattle & sheep with 480 ha's wheat & 120 ha's spray topped pastures
- Four stand shearing shed with good steel sheep yards, machinery shed and workshop plus three bedroom homestead
- Long term average rainfall at 480 mm
Area: 942.1841 hectares or 2,328.14 acres
Location: The property is situated approximately 60km North East of Mt Barker and 75 km's North East of Albany on Arnolds Road Kojaneerup and some 390 kms South East of Perth in the Shire of Plantagenet.
Services: CBH facilities only 5 km's at Kojaneerup and also the Albany Port. Good schooling (Primary) in South Stirling's 10 km's and Mt Barker 60 km's with numerous private and public schools in Albany. All services Albany and Mt Barker. Sale yards Albany and Katanning.
Zoning: Rural and in the Plantagenet Shire. Rates at $2,200 for 2014 year.
Description: Gentle undulating well drained country. Originally timbered with stunted jarrah and yate.
Soil Types: Good mixed soil types from, sandy gravels and duplex with small areas sands and good strong lakebank country. Approximately 50% lakebank, 10 % heavy gravels and 40% sand & sandy loams over clays.
Nutrition level extremely good with very good fertiliser over numerous years with applications of lime and gypsum to the property and pastures top dressed with super potash 3:1 at 130 kg per hectare and cereals with Agstar extra at 100 kgs plus 100 kgs urea with oilseed crops at 100 kgs agstar and 100 kgs urea. 2008 planting was only a small area of canola. Crop averages over the year's canola at 1.5 tph and cereals at 3 tph with one year at 5 tph.
All the pasture paddocks in 2014 were spray toped in October in preparation for the 2015 crop season and pasture preparation.
Estimated good cropable country at 600 hectares with other areas for crop and or pasture. 480 hectares planted to wheat in 2014 plus 120 hectares spray topped pasture.
Water: The property is very well watered from 13 dams plus one soak, and 9 troughs which are feed from a key dam into three tanks for distribution, domestic supplies from two rainwater tanks. All dams have been cleaned out over the last few years.
Fencing: The property is fenced into 14 main paddocks with a good laneway system of which connects most paddocks to the yards and shed areas, plain wire and electric ringlock fencing, with the boundary and internal electric. Wood and steel posts. Some in excellent condition with other in fair to good serviceable condition with some new over the last few years.
Rainfall: Long term average at 480mm
Livestock: Currently the property is running cattle and sheep plus crop. Numbers vary to seasonal conditions and crop requirements.
Improvements: Four stand shearing shed in good serviceable condition, with Custom steel sheep yards with capacity for 1,200 sheep and raised race under cover, all in excellent condition, workshop timber and steel framed with cement floor in good condition, machinery sheds in fair to good condition all very adequate for the property. Silo's 2 x flat bottom in average condition. Wood cattle yards with near new crush in good workable condition.
Homestead: Brick veneer and tile built in 1968 three bedroom home, kitchen, lounge, dining, sleepout, WC, bathroom, laundry, verandah and garage. Constructed in 1955. In fair to good serviceable condition. New carpets and paint work over the last 6 / 7 years.
Granny flat - single bedroom and bathroom with small kitchen area.
