LAWD is pleased to present Fairleigh for sale. A versatile grazing property spanning the New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory border offering significant scale for the immediate district with potential for subdivision, battery storage and solar development.
Key investment highlights include:
Scale and Topography
Total area 293.6* hectares (685.7* acres), rising from the Murrumbidgee River that forms the eastern boundary to a rolling landscape. The property sits at a favourable elevation of 620* meters Above Mean Sea Level.
The Opportunity
Due to its location and connectivity to the electricity grid, the vendor has been approached by a number of proponents who consider the property as being ideal for renewable energy projects including battery storage and a solar farm. The location of the property also presents significant development opportunities for rural subdivision of up to six rural allotments.
Soils
Productive soil types are of granite origin and are predominately free-draining red and pink granite soils.
Water
The property is securely watered by a network of dams with extensive catchments, double frontage to a seasonal creek and 730* metres of single frontage to the Murrumbidgee River.
Pastures
Pastures comprise a productive mix of perennial native grasses such as Kangaroo Grass, Microlaena and Danthonia combined with sub clover.
Scope of Enterprise
The productive native pastures have a carrying capacity of 2,000* Dry Sheep Equivalents in normal seasonal conditions. The vendor currently runs a cattle trading business, buying 200* weaner steers in the autumn at 220* to 240* kilograms Live Weight (LW), turning them off at >425* kilograms LW to the feedlot trade the following late spring early summer.
In addition, 40* to 50* late winter calving cows have been run in weaner production system. The property benefits from an established one* hectare truffle orchard. Truffles have begun to be successfully harvested generating $7,000* to $10,000* of annual supplementary income.
Operational Improvements
Quality operational improvements include:
Steel framed machinery shed with earth floor
Steel framed machinery shed/workshop with concrete floor and skillion
Steel cattle yards with loading ramp
Boundary and internal fencing is in good working condition.
Location
Conveniently located 28* kilometres from Canberra, 65* kilometres from Yass (SELX), 170* kilometres from Batemans Bay and 226* kilometres from the M5/M7 intersection Sydney.
For sale by Expression of Interest closing 12pm (AEDT) Thursday 14 December 2023.
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