Cape River Irrigation Farm

Land Size: 918.90 Ha (2269 acres) Freehold...

Location: Cape River with excellent licensed water for farming, and beside the Flinders Highway Pentland.

Special Features: This is a quality farming block situated on the Cape River..

Cape River Irrigation Farm: Pentland.

Irrigation Farm: This property is a Going Concern situated on the banks of the Cape River with excellent licensed water for farming, and beside the Flinders Highway giving Type 2 Road Train access to the East and West..

Port of Townsville 2 and a half hours away.

Quality comfortable 3-bedroom home, fully air-conditioned, fully fenced, looking over the river. Several horse stables, several very large sheds with cement floors, storage areas under cover with cement floors.

Area & Tenure: Area is 918.90 Ha (2269 acres) Freehold. Lot 2 SP 300376

Charters Towers Regional Council; Rates half yearly-$1887.

Water: River License- License 1004AP14988- 360 megalitres per year.

Bores in non- proclaimed area-8 licensed, 5 with infrastructure. Bore capacity

up to 15,000 gallons per hour. Capacity of 1000 megalitres from Bed Sands.

Good water is found at 100 feet.

Land: 2 Centre Pivots are installed on the property; however, one has been damaged in a storm.

All water mains are underground.

Red and Grey loam soils on the property and crops such as Wheat, Grain Sorghum, Barley, and Rhodes Grass hay has been grown on the property.

Significant Potato farmers are just upriver. 400 acres of farmed land has been securely fenced with netting, with a total of 600 acres can be farmed presently.

Further areas have been cleared and raked.

Category White areas.

Livestock:

The present non-farmed area has been running up to 200 cattle, mainly steers, and they have been able to do excellent weight gains on the High-quality pasture which has a mixture of native grasses, Buffel, Urachloa, Green Panic and legumes.

Comments:

This is a quality farming block situated on the Cape River. Many different crops have been growing in this area for decades successfully. Pentland is a small town on the Flinders Highway with School, Pub, Police and Post Office. It is an hour drive to Charters Towers.

Price: Price on Application