"Springshure", Guyra - 2253ac or 912ha
Improvements
Quality 5 bedrooms, 2 bathroom brick veneer home (approx 30sq), ensuite to main, office, timber kitchen with walk-in pantry, formal dining & lounge room, built in 1990. An attractive garden comprises established shrubs and trees plus a tennis court. A single car garage with electric roller door.
Steel machinery/hay shed with 4 x sliding doors for excellent access.
Approximately 25t silo.
4 stand electric woolshed.
Modern all steel cattle yards (national stockyard system design V race on concrete).
Steel bugle designed sheep yards with concreted draft and separate double drenching race.
Pasture
Extensive pasture development program has been ongoing since 2003.
Perennial pastures sown generally comprise a high performance mix. These include Fescues, Cocksfoot, Prairie, Rye, Plaintain, Chichory, Red and White Clover and Rape.
Total area sown to date is approximately 552ha.
Water
Comprehensive reticulated stock watering system services troughs to all main paddocks. It is also a backup for the domestic supply.
Water is supplied via a spring & syphons to an electric mono pump located beside the garden.
This stock watering system comprises 2 x 34,000L storage/supply tanks, 2 x 22,700 supply tanks, 6km of 63mm polypipe, 11.5km of 40mm poly in branch lines, 22 stock troughs with approximately 180,000 litres of total storage.
10 stock watering dams, Oban River, Nowlands Creek plus spring fed gullies.
 
Fencing
The boundary fences are a mixture of plainwire and netting with barb in good condition.
Internal subdivision is predominantly 4 & 2 wire electric fences, some 5 plainwire fences with 2 barbs.
Soils & Fertilizer Application
Springshure comprises a mixture of soft granite soil types.
Strategic topdressing has varied from the use of nitrogen based blends ensuring high production, single super applications and the spreading of compost.
Timber/Terrain
Undulating terrain with a small percentage of steeper timbered country. The timber comprises Peppermint, Black Sally, Stringbark, Messmate and Gum.
Forestry
Millable species are primarily Stringbark and some White Gum.
Springshure has a Private Native Forestry, Property Vegetation Plan (PNP-PVP-003392). This is a 15 year lease that expires in July 2028.
Carrying Capacity
The vendor estimates an average annual carrying capacity of 400 breeding cows.
Agents Comments:
This property is well balanced with improved pastures, good shelter belts of timber on the ridges and boasts excellent improvements. Springshure has many features from a grazing perspective that focuses on kilograms of production. A rotational grazing system is in place to maximise pasture utilisation. This property offers a unique lifestyle with its attractive family home, garden, tennis court and naturally running waterfall. Ideally situated on the desirable eastern fall.
Auction Friday 13 June 2014 at 11am, upstairs Wicklow Hotel Armidale.
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